Herbert Dewitt Cobbs

By Staff
June 15, 2006
Funeral for Herbert Dewitt Cobbs, 102, of Eva was Sunday, June 18, at 2 p.m. at Gum Pond Primitive Baptist Church with Guy Hunt and J.L. Hopper officiating.
Burial was in Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery with William-McCracken Funeral Home directing.
Mr. Cobbs died Thursday, June 15, 2006, at Summerford Nursing Home in Falkville. He was born December 7, 1903, in Morgan County to Jonathan Pleasant Cobbs and Savannah Ryan Cobbs.
He was member of Gum Pond Primitive Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Louise Walker Cobbs; two sons, James Arthur Cobbs and Hascal D. Cobbs; a daughter, Eunice M. Thompson; ten brothers and six sisters.
He is survived by two sons, Raiford L. Cobbs and wife Ruth of Alta, Ill. and Glenn E. Cobbs and wife Linda of Town Creek; 14 grandchildren; 24 great grandchildren; and a host of nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers were Gayland Thompson, Jerry Thompson, David Thompson, Doug Cobbs, Tracy Cobbs, Scott Hunt and Rodney Cline.