This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mosby, Laws, Dorn, Grimm, Malcolm, Williams, Washington Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QAw.2ACIB/727 Message Board Post: Pine Bluff Commercial Pine Bluff, AR June 15, 2001 Frances Laws, 93 Frances Bessie Laws, 93, of 1904 West Ninth Avenue, died June 11, 2001. Born March 3, 1908, at Pine Bluff, she was a daughter of the late Lee Mosby and Versie Byas Mosby. Her parents died when she was a young girl, at which time she was adopted by her late aunt, Ida Byas Topps. She attended St. Peter's Catholic School. As a child, she joined St. Bethel Baptist Church and later became a member of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, where she sang in the Senior Choir and was a mother of the church. She worked as a nurse's aide at the Pine Bluff Clinic and later worked for Dr. H.L. Wineland until her retirement. She continued to care for people by checking on them, and cooking for friends and neighbors. She was a member of the Mercy Johnson Club, retired railroad workers wives club and medical association club. She was preceded in death by one brother, Spencer Mosby; her first husband, Oscar Dorn; her second husband, Jesse Laws; and her stepfather, Willie Grimm. Survivors include three sisters, Mabel T. Malcolm, Maggie T. Williams and Selma B. Washington, all of Pine Bluff. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Johnny Smith officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Grove Section of Graceland Cemetery by P.K. Miller Mortuary. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 today at the funeral home.