Extracted from The Daily Leader (Brookhaven, MS)
Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Billy Henry Priest

Services for Billy Henry Priest, of Hazlehurst, are 11 a.m. Thursday, March 30, at Brookhaven Funeral Home with burial in Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery in Copiah County.

Visitation is today from 5 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mr. Priest, 68, died March 28, 2006, at St. Dominic - Jackson Memorial Hospital. He was born in Hazlehurst on June 20, 1937, to Archie Priest and Effie Cupit Priest.

He was a retired iron worker. He was a member of the Hazlehurst Branch of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Preceding him in death were his parents.

Survivors are his wife, Kathy Priest, of Hazlehurst; his sons, Warren Kinchen, of Wesson, and Craig Priest, of Florence; his daughters, Tammy Jordan, of Wesson, Tara Francois, of Hazlehurst, and Brenda Gaddy, of Georgetown; his brother, Bill Priest, of Crystal Springs; his sisters, Cathy Wallace, of Texas, and Barbara Wiley, of Larto Lake, La.; and his 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.