Extracted from The Laurel Leader-Call (Laurel, MS)
Friday, September 10, 1971

MRS. LELIA RATCLIFF

BAY SPRINGS, Miss. -- Funeral services for Mrs. Lelia Ratcliff, 76, of Bay Springs, who died Wednesday in a Laurel nursing home, will be held Friday, 4:30 p.m. from the chapel of Memory Chapel of Bay Springs. The Rev. D. D. Satterwhite will officiate with burial in Bay Springs Cemetery.

Survivors are two daughters: Mrs. Lily Boyd, Laurel; Mrs. Lena Moore, Pineville, Tex.; six sons: Eugene Ratcliff, Greenville, Ind.; Delbert Ratcliff, Louin; Cil Ratcliff, Bay Springs; L. M. Rayner, Slidell, La.; James Rayner, Laurel; and William Brady of California; 26 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; two sisters: Mrs. Alice Woods, Laurel; Mrs. Annie Mae Johnson, Taylorsville; and five brothers: Allen Rayner, Roy Rayner and Rich Rayner, all of Bay Springs, Horace Rayner, Taylorsville, and Andrew Rayner of Stringer.