Funeral services will be 1 pm Wednesday, at Crestwood Chapel, for Mrs. Vera Heathcock Gentry age 91, of Duke who died Sunday. Reverend Ken Phillips will officiate. Burial will be in Crestwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Gentry will be remembered as devout Christian with a memorable sweet disposition, cook extraordinaire and everyone loved her cakes. She was a lifetime member of first Baptist Church of Duke, wonderful wife, mother, grandmother, and friend to all and will be dearly missed.

She is preceded in death by her husband Walter W. Gentry, parents J.R. and Zula Heathcock and Brothers Lamar and Donald Heathcock and stepmother Imogene Stracener

She is survived by sons, Robby (Thara) and Bruce(Rebecca) Gentry, grandchildren Jennifer Gentry, Lydia Gentry, great grandchildren Kristen(Jonathan) and their soon to be great great grandson, Jonathan, Makayla and Landon.

Honorary pallbearers will be the family of Lamar Heathcock and deacons of First BaptIst Church of Duke and good friend and neighbor Rebel Campbell.

Special thanks to the staff of Amedisys Hospice and granddaughter Jennifer Gentry. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Wednesday from 11 am until the time of service.