This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fryer, Hansford, Drake, Rice, Merrell, Golden, McCowen, Bundren Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GW.2ADE/1761 Message Board Post: From The Fresno Bee Fresno, California (Fresno County) Thursday, September 26, 1985 Pearlie M. Fryer Services for Pearlie Mae Fryer, 75, of Fresno will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Stephens & Bean Chapel. Burial will be in Washington Colony Cemetery in Easton. Mrs. Fryer died Wednesday. She was born in Texas and had lived in Fresno for 35 years. She was a homemaker. Surviving are her son, Max Hansford of Sacramento; six daughters, Goldie Hansford and Bess Rice, both of Clovis, Shirley Merrell of Santa Clara, Jimi Lou Golden of Sacramento and Beverly McCowen of Florida; three brothers, Jack Drake of New Mexico, and Melvin and Dan Drake, both of Florida; a sister, Evelyn Bundren of Auberry; 24 grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren. (Ed. note: Mrs. Fryer was born 6/30/1910 per the California Death Index via rootsweb.com)