Extracted from The Daily Leader (Brookhaven, MS)
Grace Whittington Lee
Services for Grace Whittington Lee, of Meadville, are 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1, at Bude Church of God with burial in New Hope Baptist Church Cemetery. Franklin Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Visitation is Sunday from 4 p.m. until the time of the service at the church.
Mrs. Lee, 90, died Jan. 31, 2009, at Meadville Nursing Home. She was born in Franklin County on Nov. 29, 1918, to Joe Marion Whittington and Effie Clark Whittington.
She was a homemaker. She was of the Pentecostal faith.
Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Luther Lee; and one brother.
Survivors are her sons, Jerry K. Lee and wife, Diana, and Roger Dale Lee and wife, Deborah, all of Meadville; her daughters, Betty Jo Watkins, of Baton Rogue, La., and Paulette Jones and husband, James, of Meadville; 14 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.
Monday, February 2, 2009