Extracted from The Hattiesburg American (Hattiesburg, MS)
Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Yvonne D. Beard

FOXWORTH -- Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Colonial Funeral Home for Yvonne Duff Beard, 76, of Foxworth, who died Dec. 27, 2005, at Wesley Medical Center.

Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery.

Mrs. Beard was a bookkeeper and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Melvin Radelle Duff; and her parents, Jewell and Mitte Hammond Russell.

Survivors include her husband, R.A. ``Cotton'' Beard of Foxworth; two daughters, Debbie Bellah of Clinton and Melinda Neal of Columbia; a son, Melvin Radelle Duff of Columbia; a sister, Elowise Stringer of Hattiesburg; three brothers, William Russell of Franklinton, La., Gale Russell of Decatur and Victor Russell of Shalimar, Fla.; and three grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 5:30-9 p.m. today at the funeral home.