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GAINESBORO - Funeral services for Bessie Scantland Stafford, 85, of Gainesboro will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 23, from the chapel of Anderson Funeral Home. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Jackson County.
Mrs. Stafford died on Thursday, May 21, 1998, at Cumberland River Hospital South in Gainesboro.
She was born on Sept. 8, 1912, in Jackson County to the late Calvin and Dora Maxwell Scantland. Mrs. Stafford was a retired factory employee and a member of Harmony Church of Christ.
Her family includes a brother, Ernest Scantland of Murfreesboro, and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Arthur Harlen Stafford; three brothers, Grover, Herman and William Scantland; and two sisters, Anna Bell Scantland and Ruby Upchurch.
Bro. Jimmy Anderson will officiate at the services.
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