Mr. Marce Gene Pounders, 81, Spruce Pine, Alabama passed away Monday, March 30, 2015 at his residence.
He lived most all of his life in Franklin County and was a member of Mt. Hebron Baptist Church. He was a retired Bi-vocational pastor serving at Mt. Hebron, Gravel Hill, South Haleyville and Spruce Pine Baptist Churches. He also worked at US Reduction in various capacities for 30 years..
The family will receive friends on Wednesday, April 1, 2015 from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Pinkard Funeral Home Russellville. Funeral service will be Thursday, 2 p.m. at the funeral home with Jerome Sherrill and Scott Delashaw officiating. Burial will follow in Franklin Memory Gardens.
Survivors include wife, Melba Sue Pennington Pounders; children, Randy (Lynda) Pounders, Ricky (Jayne) Pounders; Michelle (Jon) Coker; sister, Louise Warhurst; brothers, Julion ‘Dude’, Burlon, and Troy Pounders; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by parents, Waymon and Pearl Pounders; brothers, O.V., Noah, Clyde, Donald, Coy ‘Hugh Don’, and infant, Lonnie; sisters, Gussie McCarley, Elsie Gibson, and Ruby McCarley.
