Extracted from The Meridian Star (Meridian, MS)
Tuesday, December 5, 2006

Sara E. Elam

Retired nursing assistant

Graveside services for Sara E. Elam will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Long Creek Cemetery with the Revs. Leslie Aucion and Donald Turner officiating. Stephens Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Elam, 84, of Marion, died Sunday, Dec. 3, 2006, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center. She was a member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church.

Survivors include her son, Donald McMaster and his wife, Dixie, of Kermit, W.Va.; two grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; sisters, Mildred McDonald of Meridian, Mary Lou Malone of Memphis, Tenn.; brothers, Lester Jones of Clinton and James A. Jones of Meridian.

She was preceded in death by her parents, William E. and Donnie Mae Jones; brothers, Preston Jones, William C. Jones and Joseph Jones; a daughter, Jessie Mae McMaster and sons, Jack McMaster and Charles McMaster.

Pallbearers will be Larry Jones, Doug McNeal, Paul Lundy, Jimmy Jones, Dennis Malone and Denton Green.

Visitation will be Wednesday from 10:30 a.m.- 12:30 p.m. at the funeral home.