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DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 5, 1993                   TAG: 9305050266
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: ROCKY MOUNT                                LENGTH: Short


OBIT BROOKS, ERA AYERS

BROOKS, Era Ayers, 82, of Rocky Mount, died Tuesday morning, May 4, 1993 in Franklin Memorial Hospital. She was born January 8, 1911, in Franklin County, the daughter of the late William Henry and Jennie Maxie Ayers and was preceded in death by her husband, Ernest L. Brooks. Surviving are four daughters and three sons-in-law, Betty Jane and Clyde Wray of Rocky Mount, Janice B. and Charlie O. Holland and Myrtle B. and James L. Amos, all of Glade Hill, Va., Nancy B. Lambert of Charlottesville, Va.; three sisters, and two brothers-in-law, twin sister, Edna and John Divers, Zelma Perdue and Rebecca A. and Bryan (Buddy) Law, all of Rocky Mount; one brother and sister-in-law, Nelson and Lois Ayers of Knight Dale, N.C. Also surviving are five grandchildren, Karen Swihart of Callaway, Robert Amos of Glade Hill, Roy L. Holland of Rocky Mount, Ernest Lee Amos of Glade Hill, and Melinda Pagans of Charlottesville, Va.; and two great-grandchildren, Darren Swihart II of Callaway, Va. and Joathan Perdue of Charlottesville, Va. Also surviving are several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted 2 p.m. Thursday at Lynch Chapel by the Rev. J. Larry Holland and Elder Clarence Stone with interment to follow in the Ayers Family Cemetery in Glade Hill. Friends may call after 12 noon Wednesday at Lynch Funeral Home where the family will also receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m.



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