* Obit: Vernon Wilson Sailors - Crittenden Press, The

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Vernon Wilson Sailors, 85, of Paducah, died July 11 at the VA Medical Center in Marion, Ill.
He was the former owner of two trucking companies in Missouri and Florida. He was a member of Disabled American Veterans, the American Legion, the Masonic Lodge and belonged to the Boilermakers Union out of St. Louis.
Surviving are his wife, Viola Sailors of Paducah; a son, David Sailors of Dallas; four sisters, Mae Jeffers and Virginia Brown of Florida and Margie Sinclair and Faye Riedel of California; a brother, Ray Sailors of California; two stepsons, Joe Dickerson of Crown Point, Ind., Randy Dickerson of Lancaster, Calif., and Jimmy Dickerson of Griffith, Ind.; eight grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a son, Charles Ray Sailors. His parents were John Sailors and Fannie Black.
Funeral services were conducted at Boyd Funeral Home in Salem with Rev. John East officiating. Burial was in Lola Cemetery.