Archie Arthur Poe
Archie Arthur Poe, 61,of near West Mansfield died Friday, March 11,1994,
at Memorial Hospital of Union County after having been seriously ill for a year.
He had worked at the former Tecumseh Products in Marion and was retired as
a security guard at Ranco, Plain City, for ISS. A U. S. Army veteran of the Korean
conflict, he was a member of Community United Cavalry Church in Richwood
and a former member of the Eagles Lodge and Moose Lodge. He was a
member of the Buckeye Play Boys band, had recorded in Nashville and at one
time had his own radio show on WMRN Radio.
He was born on March 26,1932, in Hileshawa,Ky.,to the late Corbet and Jessie
Pucket Poe. He was predeceased by a daughter, a stepsister and
stepbrother.
He is survived by his wife, Edna Jackson Poe, whom he married on Dec. 2,
1951, in Richmond, Ini; his stepmother, Marie Poe of Rich wood; a son, Alan
A. Poe of Phoenix, Ariz.; four grandchildren; a sister, Mildred Huffman of Marion;
five stepsisters, Jewell Lowery of Marion, Dorothy Martin of Dayton, Orphin
Ann Robinson of Marion, Stella Tiilman of Rich wood and Lidia Peck or
Richwood; and three stepsisters, Cecil Poe of Marion, Melvin Poe of Richwood
and Ralph Poe of Alabama.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the Ballinger-Peppard
Funeral Home in Richwood. The Rev. Fred Cheney will officiate and interment
will be at Broadway Cemetery. Friends may call Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9
p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society
Stofcheck-Ballinger Funeral Home