Extracted from The Clarion Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Rev. Dewitt W. Mitchell

Mendenhall

Reverend Dewitt Wallace Mitchell, 80 of Mendenhall, MS, died Sunday, March 20, 2011 at Simpson General Hospital in Mendenhall, MS. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at Willow Grove Baptist Church in Collins, MS. Reverend Earl Clark, Reverend Rodney Anderson, and Reverend Rocky Holston will officiate at the services with interment to follow in the Willow Grove Baptist Church Cemetery. Billy M. King Colonial Chapel Funeral Home of Collins, MS is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation will be held on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 from 5:30 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at Billy M. King-Colonial Chapel Funeral Home.

Pallbearers will be Brandon Mitchell, Wade Hayes, Dan Pickering, Gary Amason, Larry Mitchell, and Kevin Johnson.

Reverend Mitchell, a Covington County native, retired after forty seven years of service as a Southern Baptist minister. His pastorates included Copiah, Bolivar, Holmes, Hinds, and Simpson counties. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Mendenhall. He also served his country in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Hamner during the Korean War.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Frazier Mitchell and Vada Coulter Mitchell; his step mother, Dovie Leggett Mitchell; three sisters, Lucene Mitchell Perkins, Grace Mitchell Leggett, and Lanell Mitchell; three brothers, Granville Mitchell, Sennett Mitchell, and Artis Mitchell; one grandson, Randy Traylor.

Survivors include his wife of fifty-eight years, Annie High Mitchell of Mendenhall; one son, John David Mitchell, and wife, Teresa of Mendenhall; one brother, Charles N. Mitchell, and wife, Patrice of Seminary; one sister-in-law, Frances Welch of Mendenhall; two grandsons, Brandon Mitchell and Cory McWilliams; and a host of nieces and nephews.

The family expresses their thanks to the entire staff of Simpson General Hospital for their care and compassion during the past weeks. Also two very special caregivers who helped during the long nights, Ms. Frances Pittman, and Ms. Mavis Carmichael.