Funeral services for Melba Suiter, 90, of Fox Meadows, Murray, will be held today, Monday, Dec. 20, 2010, at 1 p.m. at the J.H. Churchill Funeral Home with Hollis Miller and Charley Bazzell officiating. Burial will follow in the Murray Memorial Gardens.
Serving as pallbearers will be Lindy Suiter, Larry Wells Suiter, Terry Butler, Mark McClard, Jay Suiter, Courtney Starks, Joe Dan Taylor and Todd Rose.
Suiter died Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010, at 9:10 p.m. at the Murray-Calloway County Hospital.
Born in Marshall County on May 9, 1920, to the late Walter and Daisy Pace Starks, she was a homemaker and a member of the University Church of Christ in Murray.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Elroy Suiter; one son, Eddie Suiter; and one grandson, Mitch McClard.
She is survived by three daughters, Janice McClard and husband, Terry, Debbie Gallagher and husband, John, and Lisa Starks and husband, Ricky, all of Murray; three sons, Gearl Suiter and wife, Jeanette, Larry Suiter and wife, Wanda, and Joe Suiter, all of Murray; 12 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren, and special friend, Euva Carraway of Murray.
Expressions of sympathy may be made to New Pathways Children's Home, P.O. Box 10, Melber, KY 42069.
Online condolences may be made at www.thejhchurchillfuneralhome.com. Arrangements are handled by the J.H. Churchill Funeral Home.