Extracted from The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Wednesday, May 23, 2001

Bernice Lee Richards

SEARCY -- Bernice Lee Richards, 84, formerly of Wayside, Miss., former owner of Trail Lake Store and James Crossing Store, died of heart failure Sunday at her home. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Mortimer Funeral Home in Greenville, Miss., with burial in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens there. She was a member of James Crossing Baptist Church.

Mrs. Richards, the widow of James I. Richards, leaves a son, Cecil Richards of Searcy; two sisters, Vera [sic Verna] Mae Carver of Carrollton, Miss., and Sarah Mobley of Missouri; a brother, Bernard Lee of Nashville, Ind., three grandsons and five great-grandchildren.