Extracted from The McComb Enterprise-Journal (McComb, MS)
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Norma Ellen Graves

Norma Ellen Graves, 78, of Liberty, died May 29, 2011, at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson.

Services were at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Brown Funeral Home in Gloster. Bro. Merrill Blalock, Bro. Melvin Blalock and Bro. Burnett Carraway officiated. Burial was in Graves Chapel Cemetery near Liberty.

Mrs. Graves was born Dec. 5, 1932, in Amite County, to Vernon and Eula Wilkinson Foreman.

She was a homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Clyde H. Graves Sr.

Survivors include two daughters and sons-in-law, Brenda Kay and Max Lawson of Osyka, and Rhonda Jeanna and Mitch Walsh of Gloster; a son, Clyde H. ``Rusty'' Graves Jr. of Liberty; a sister, Bernette Bates of Liberty; a brother, James Foreman and wife Mitzi of Baker, La.; grandchildren, Maxwell C. Lawson Jr. and wife Kristin, Brittany Kay Lawson and Sara R. Graves; a great-grandchild, MaKayla Graves; and a host of nieces, nephews and special friends.