Funeral services will be at 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 9, 2008 at Crestwood Memorial Chapel for Lorette W. Duke, age 82, of Gadsden, who died on April 7, 2008. Rev. Phillip Ellen will officiate. Burial will be at Crestwood Memorial Cemetery. Crestwood Memorial Funeral Home will direct.
Mrs. Duke was a retired hairdresser and will be greatly missed by her family friends.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Harry F. Duke; sons, Jimmy and Ronnie Boutwell; grandsons, Perry Morton and Ashley Brown; one brother; and six sisters.
She is survived by her daughter, Brenda Brown; sister, Audrey Roberts; brother, Roy Wiggins; granddaughter, Sonya and her husband, Dewayne Troxtel; great-grandchildren; Kaley and Kyle Troxtel and Alexis J. Brown; several nieces and nephews and a host of friends.
Pallbearers will be family and friends.
Special thanks to Dr. Courtney Lowe, Southern Care Hospice and the 4th floor nurses and staff of Riverview Regional Medical Center.
The family will receive friends from 2:00 until 3:00 p.m. on Thursday at Crestwood Memorial Funeral Home.