Kate Herring DurrettFuneral services for Kate Herring Durrett, 99, of Jacksonville are set for Saturday, August 4, 2007 at 10 a.m. at Autry Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. James Blaylock officiating. Burial will follow at Mount Comfort Cemetery.
Mrs. Durrett was born on July 21, 1908 in New Hope, she passed away on August 1, 2007 in Jacksonville.
She was a homemaker and a Baptist.
Mrs. Durrett was preceded in death by her parents Joseph and Ella Davis Herring, her husband Carl Durrett, daughter Glynn Tankersley, three sons-in-law Gene Tankersley, David Josey and Charles Lowe, grandsons and Rusty and Edward Durrett, four sisters and five brothers.
Survivors include one son and daughter-in-law Jerry and Eva Durrett of Wills Point, two daughters and son-in-law; Janice Lowe, Cypress and Betty and Ralph Sayers, Anahuac, Il., 11 grandchildren, Danny Josey, Kevin Tankersley, Chyrl Lowe Brhlik, David Lowe, Deborah Vandel, Kathy Chambliss, Randy, Ralph and Scott Sayers, Sandra Messer and Keith Durrett; 23 great-grandchildren and 9 great-great-grandchildren, two sisters-in-law; Eddie Jowel, Jacksonville and Geri Herring, Tyler and several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be grandsons.
Visitation will begin on Friday, August 3, 2007 with family receiving friends from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home.