Extracted from The Southern Herald (Liberty, MS)
Thursday, November 24, 1983

LAST RITES FOR MARY T NEWMAN

Mrs. Mary Terrell Newman, wife of Rufus Ralph Newman of Route 2, Osyka, died at 9 a.m. November 16 in Field Memorial Hospital in Centreville, where she had been a patient two weeks. She was 67.

Services were held at 2 p.m. Friday, November 18 in Gillsburg Baptist Church where she was a member of its WMU and Friendship Club. The Rev. Joseph Small and the Rev. Aubrey Smith officiated. Burial was in the Gillsburg Cemetery.

Born November 13, 1916, in Amite County, Mrs. Newman was the daughter of Robert W. and Bessie Reynolds Terrell. She was a housewife and also preceded in death by a daughter, Northan Newman Iasigi.

Survivors in addition to her husband, include a daughter, Mrs. Fleeta N. Williams, Baton Rouge, La.; four brothers, J. L. Terrell, Liberty, Texas, Lee Russell Terrell, Fort Walton Beach, Fla., Wallace and Clifton Terrell of Liberty, Miss.; a sister, Mrs. Louise T. Newton of Liberty; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.