Barbara Moore Chappell

Mrs. Barbara Moore Chappell of Bolivar departed this life

Wednesday afternoon, December 12, 2012 at Pine Meadows

Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center. She was 76 years old.



Mrs. Chappell was born in Middleton January 18, 1936 to the late

John Laughlin and Amanda Kathleen Smalley Moore. On

December 27, 1982, he was united in marriage to Jesse Ruben

Chappell who preceded her in death January 27, 1987. She worked

for Service America Corporation at Harmon servicing vending

machines and retired from Walmart, where she worked as a cashier.

She was also a farmer. She lived all her life in the Hardeman

County area and was a member at the First Baptist Church in

Bolivar.



Survivors include a daughter, Rita Ervin Kee of Oakland; a son,

Dale Edward Ervin of Toone; three sisters, Doris Gibbons of

Memphis, Jane Moore Clark of Bolivar, and Sue Jaggars of

Olive Branch, MS; three brothers, James E. Moore of Hot Springs,

AR, John Moore, Jr. of Hot Springs, AR and Glen Moore of Bolivar;

three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.



In addition to her husband and parents, she is preceded in death by

a sister, Shirley Mathis of Brookland, AR, and her first husband

Jimmy Ervin, who died in June of 1996.