Extracted from The Leader-Call (Laurel, MS)
Saturday, September 26, 1987

REV. TROY LEWIS

The Rev. Troy Lewis, 86, of Route 1, died Sept. 25 at Jones County Community Hospital.

The funeral service will be at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church, with burial in the church cemetery. The Revs. Gerald Sawyer and Jerry Rowley will officiate.

He was a retired Pentecostal minister and carpenter.

He is survived by his widow, Leona Landrum Lewis of Laurel; a son, W.M. Lewis of Laurel; daughters, Louise Baucum and Geneva Lawson, both of Laurel, and Sarah Touchstone of Heidelberg; sisters, Willie Ishee and Mary Parker, both of Laurel; 16 grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren.

Visitation will begin at 5 p.m. today at Memory Chapel, which is in charge of arrangements.