Extracted from The Laurel Leader-Call (Laurel, MS)
Alma C. Hamilton
Alma C. Hamilton, 69, a long time Laurel resident, died Thursday, Dec. 25, in Irmo, S.C.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, at Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Laurel, with burial in Crest View Cemetery in Laurel. The Rev. Sam Husser will officiate.
She was a Baptist and had been active in both Houston Road Baptist Church and Highland Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James Claude (Jim) Hamilton, Jr.; a son, James Claude Hamilton, III; a brother, Alex Case; and two sisters, Helen Louise Ryan and Velma Case; and her parents, Henry Lee Case and Viola Williams Case.
She is survived by a son, Robert Lee (Bobby) Hamilton and his wife, Pam of Irmo, S.C.; one brother, Lloyd Case and wife Eleanor of Magnolia; five grandchildren, Amy Hamilton, Wesley Hamilton, Jimmy Hamilton, Jeremy Hamilton and Kyle Harvison.
Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday and continue until service time at Colonial Chapel.
In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to the Zimbabwe Famine Relief Fund. The donation can be made on line at www.sim.org/index.php/project/96388 or by mail at SIM USA P. O. Box 7900 Charlotte, N.C. 28241 and designate the funds for project #96388.
Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Laurel is in charge of arrangements.
Friday, January 2, 2009