Extracted from The Hattiesburg American (Hattiesburg, MS)
Wednesday, October 20, 1976

Services held for Mrs. Sallie M. May

Services were held at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Sharon Baptist Church for Mrs. Sallie Mae May, 69, of Rt. 1, Ovett, who died Sunday at the Forrest General Hospital after a brief illness.

Interment was in Merchant Cemetery with Smith County Funeral Chapel in charge.

Mrs. May was born March 10, 1907, in Smith County. A member of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, she was a resident of Jones County.

She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Imogene Moulder of Ovett; a son, James May of Oxford; five grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Nancie Taylor of Saline, Tex.; and two brothers, Amos Arender and Vilos Amos [sic Arender], both of Raleigh.