Extracted from The Jasper County News (Bay Springs, MS)
Wednesday, March 29, 1978

Lelia Mae Montgomery

Lelia Mae Montgomery, 73, died 21 March in Jasper General Hospital.

Survivors: husband: Tolbert Montgomery; 5 daughters: Wyvona Sumrall - Miami, Grace Harper - Kirbyville, TX, Imogene Levitt - Bay Springs, Aliqueen Gibson - Miami, Lynn McLeland - Hattiesburg; son: George K. Montgomery - Denison. TX; 2 sisters: Ethel Dawkins - Louin and Ada Jordan - Louin; brother: Walter Shoemaker - Louin. 13 grandchildren, 8 great-grandchildren.