Erwin A. Summers

Published 11:35 am Friday, October 28, 2011

LEARNED — Erwin A. Summers died Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011, at Trinity Mission Nursing Home in Clinton. He was 87.

Mr. Summers was a native of Brookhaven and lived most of his life in Learned. He was a member of Learned Baptist Church. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Elmer Alton and Alice Taylor Summers; and a sister, Marjorie Summers Bingham.

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Survivors include his niece, Marjorie Bowron of Blairsville, Ga., and a great-niece, Marjorie Paige Bowron Till of Mobile.

Services will be at noon Saturday at Learned Baptist Church with the Rev. Joe Cook officiating. Burial will follow at Salem Cemetery. Visitation will be Saturday at the church from 10:30 a.m. until the service with Glenwood Funeral Home of Utica in charge.

Pallbearers will be Henry Riggin, Jon Hynum, Trey Porch, Kirby Bowron, Todd Till and Bill Curtis.

Honorary pallbearers will be Waverly Liles, Greg Irby, Homer Boyd, Scott Armstrong and Bill Perry.