Cleo Janette Layne


Cleo Janette Layne, 83, of Mount Gilead, formerly of Essex, died
unexpectedly Wednesday, March 31, 2004, at her home with her husband at
her bedside.
She was a homemaker.
She was born July 22, 1920, in Martel to the late Weldon and Janette
Massey Lama and was predeceased by two sisters, a brother and her first
husband, Lynn Seaman in 1973.
She is survived by her husband, Richard Austin Layne whom she married
Dec. 13, 1981; a son, Charles Lester Douglas of LaRue; two daughters,
Eloise Poland of Mount Gilead and Sharon Douglas; grandchildren, Brice
Blanton, Shannon Plott, Nicole Tennar, Richard and Amy Moss and Jeffrey
Moss and Brian Moss; and great-grandchildren, Sidney, Sutton, Isabelle,
Brianna, Joey, Keegen, Garret and Kelsi.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Ballinger
Funeral Home. Pastors Robert L. Matney and J.R. Smith will officiate and
burial will be at the Price Cemetery. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m.
today.
Memorial contributions may be made to Mount Tabor Freewill Baptist
Church or True Bible Church in care of the funeral home.

Stofcheck-Ballinger Funeral Home