Ralph Messmore, a resident of St. Louis, died Sunday, Feb. 27, 2005, at St. Louis University Hospital in St. Louis at the age of 54.

Visitation will be held from 10-11 a.m. Wednesday, March 2, 2005, at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Bernie.

Graveside services will then be conducted on Wednesday, March 2, 2005, at 11 a.m. in the Bernie Cemetery.

Interment will follow in the Bernie Cemetery.