Carolyn Marie Bill

Mrs. Carolyn Marie Bill, 72, of Manila, died Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013, at The Flo and Phil Jones Hospice House in Jonesboro. She was born Oct. 25, 1941, in Manila to the late George and Grace Hicks Bunch and was a 1960 graduate of Manila High School. Following high school, she worked for an accounting firm in Memphis and had also lived in Nashville. She lived several years in Jonesboro, and was retired from Post Foods. She had lived in Manila for the past two years and attended the Manila First Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Arthur Bunch; three sisters, Yvettia Bunch, Helen Woolf and Ruth Riggs; and her daughter, Melanie Clindenin.

Survivors include her husband, Terry Bill of Manila;

One grandson, Matthew Clindenin and his wife, Lindsey, of Lumberton, Miss.;

Four brothers, J. R. Bunch of Piedmont, Mo., Jim Bunch, Michael Bunch and Garry Bunch, all of Manila; and

Three sisters, Martha Cary of Forestill, Mo., Minnie Bourland of Fairfield, Calif., and Sherry Pratt of Manila.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church in Manila with the Rev. Jared Russell officiating. Burial will follow in Manila Cemetery. Pallbearers will be John Riley, Joe Bridges, James Bridges, David Bunch, Daniel Bunch and Scott Cary. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Friday at the Howard Funeral Service Chapel in Manila. Guests may register at www.HowardFuneralService.com