Extracted from The Natchez Democrat (Natchez, MS)
Tuesday, November 12, 1991

Bernice Perrault

Services for Bernice Perrault, 74, of Natchez, who died Sunday, Nov. 10, 1991, at St. Joseph Hospital in Atlanta, are at 1 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 13, at Laird Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Bruce Coleman officiating. Burial will be at Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of the funeral home. Visitation is from 1 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

She was born Jan. 22, 1917, in LaSalle Parish, La., the daughter of Fred Perry and Bernetta White Whitten. She was a member of Cloverdale Baptist Church, the Order of the Eastern Star, Women of the Moose and the Ladies of the Elks.

She is preceded in death by her husband Samual Joseph Perrault.

Survivors include three sons, Fred Wilson of Birmingham, Ala., Elbert Wilson of Port Gibson and James Wilson of Port Arthur, Texas; one daughter, Opal Moore of Roswell, Ga.; two brothers, Freddie Whitten of Jena, La., and Oza Whitten of Midland, Texas; two sisters, Inez Weems of Keithville, La., and Nell Smith of LaPorte, Texas; 17 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Billy Wood, Bill Maning, Lavern Smith, John Cleveland, Ernest West, Julius Knotts, Roy Jester and James Powers.