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  THE PARIS NEWS, Thu., Aug. 22, 1996, p.12A. '(Picture) William Love Beard
  Jr, 85, of Powderly died at 2:50 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21, 1996, at Che rry
  Street Annex. Services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, in Fry
  and Gibbs Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Mike Jones officiating.
  Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends
  from 7-8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Mr. Beard was born Oct. 14,
  1910, in Paris, a s on of William Love and Eudora Bradley Beard. He was a
  member of the Powderly Baptist Church. He was a traveling salesman for 49
  years, working for Pete Hu mphries Grocery, White Swan Grocery and Lily
  Sales. He served on the board of Powderly and North
  Lamar schools for 26 years until retiring in 1980. He marr ied Martha
  Pearl Phillips April 9, 1934, in Antlers, OK. She preceded him dea th on
  Feb. 28, 1996. Surviving are four children, Jane Whitesides of Memphis,
  TN, Peggy Stinson, Billy Beard and Susan Snodgrass, all of Paris; a
  daught er-in-law, Gradie Marie Beard; two sons-in-law, Hurshell Stinson
  and Chris L. Snodgrass; two brothers, Ralph Beard and Bob Beard, both of
  Paris; two siste rs, Marguerite Beard and Virginia Watson, both of Paris;
  11 grandchildren, Cy nthia Byrd, Nancy Clark, Pam Golding, Misti Clark,
  Jamie Galyon, Tammy Nichol s, Eric Snodgrass, Shelley Lackie, Wendy
  Stinson, Bradley Snodgrass and Patri ck Snodgrass; and 17
  great-grandchildren. In addition to his wife, he was pre ceded in death by
  a brother, Tom Beard, and a sister, Mable Haley. Pallbearer s will be
  Steve Byrd, Kerry Clark, Mike Golding, Jeff Lackie, Scott Galyon, L at
  Nichols and Mike Clark.'

Details of William Love's family with Martha Pearl Phillips