By Staff
January 28, 2008
Funeral for Annalee Purdon Rhea, 64, of Hartselle will be Thursday (today), Jan. 31, at 1 p.m. at East Highland Baptist Church with Bro. Walter Blackman officiating and Peck Funeral Home directing. The body will lie in state one hour prior to the service.
Burial will be in Hartselle City Cemetery.
Mrs. Rhea died Monday, Jan. 28, 2008, at Decatur General Hospital.
She was a member of East Highland Baptist Church where she was a Sunday school member and teacher. She was assistant to the CEO at SouthTrust Bank. She was preceded in death by her father, Leroy Purdon.
She is survived by her husband, Charles Rhea Jr. of Hartselle; a son, Chris Rhea of Dallas, Ga.; a daughter, Leigh Ann Rhea of Decatur; her mother, Mable Purdon of Hartselle; and three grandchildren, Christopher, Ashley and Spencer.
Pallbearers will be Alan Drinkard, Tommy Jones, Dudley White, L. E. Shaneyfelt, Noah Webster and Willard Coffey.
The family request in lieu of flowers, donations be made to any of the following: F.A.C.E.S. program of Morgan Co., BTEA, Uncle Dick’s Home in the Philippines or Ronald McDonald House Charities, Birmingham.