OBIT - Mrs. Mabel Carroll - Mrs. Mabel Mae Carroll, 87, of 205 E. Fourth St., Grayson, died Wednesday in Carter County following a sudden illness. Mrs. Carroll was born Dec. 26, 1898, at Hitchins, a daughter of the late Henry and Mary Holbrook Branham. Her husband, Ernest Clifford Carroll, died in 1963. She was a member of Bayless Memorial Presbyterian Church. Surviving are three daughters, Jewell Collins of Grayson, Betty Roberts of Ashland and Dorothy Louise McGuire of Bellvue, Fla.; three sons, Grayson Mayor Daniel Clifford Carroll, Ernest Thomas and George Littlejohn Carroll, all of Grayson; three sisters, Leona Mullins of Grayson, Gracie Leadingham of Ashland, and Osie Knipp of Douglas, Ariz.; two brothers, William Branham and Clifford Branham, both of Hitchins; 15 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild. The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Malone Funeral Home in Grayson by John Bare and Charles Davis. Burial will be in East Carter County Memory Gardens. Friends may call after 6 p.m. today at the funeral home. (The Daily Independent, Ashland, Kentucky, Friday, Oct 31, 1986)
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