Daily Corinthian Newspaper, Sunday Jan. 18, 1953
SATURDAY RITES FOR W.A. AYERS
Services were held Saturday, 2:30 p.m. at Tishomingo Chapel for Willie Augusta Ayers, 73 year old retired Kossuth farmer, who died in the Corinth Hospital Friday after several days' illness.  Service was conducted by the Revs. E.E. Neill and R.B. Patterson.  Burial was in the Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery at Shiloh with McPeters Funeral Home in charge.
Mr. Ayers was a member of the Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, the former Bell Vina Claunch of Route 1, Kossuth; three sons, Levi, Clovis, both of Kossuth and Randolph of Philadelphia, Miss.; three daughters, Mrs. Riley Odle, Mrs. J.B. Aldridge, and Mrs. Vance Mathis, all of Kossuth; and a half brother, Jim, of Kossuth.
He also leaves 8 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Bee Smith, Early Strickland, Odell Barnett, Jack Lindsey, Emmitt Gurley and Charles Neill.