August 3, 2002
Published 12:00 am Monday, August 5, 2002
WILLIE LEE BAILEY
Services for Willie Lee Bailey will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday at Travelers Rest M.B. Church. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Visitation will be at Dillon-Chisley Funeral Home from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday and at the church from 12:30 p.m. Monday until the service.
Mrs. Bailey died Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at River Region Medical Center. She was 72.
A lifelong resident of Warren County, Mrs. Bailey taught with the Vicksburg Warren School District for 42 years. She retired in 1992. She was a member of Travelers Rest M.B. Church where she was an usher.
She was preceded in death by her parents, the Rev. J.H. Williams and Martha J. Williams; a daughter, Constella Hill; and a son, Joseph Bailey.
She is survived by her husband, the Rev. Frank Bailey of Vicksburg; her daughter, Frankie Lee Bailey Goodman of Columbia, S.C.; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
ALBERTA BUNCH
Alberta Bunch died Friday, Aug. 2, 2002. She was 76.
Mrs. Bunch was a retired domestic worker.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Mitchell Davis and Mary Louise Banks.
She is survived by her husband, Willie Bunch, and one sister, Rosie Young of Milwaukee, Wis.
W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
IRENER NEAL CLARK
Services for Irener Neal Clark will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at Mount Calvary Baptist Church with the Rev. Mincer Minor officiating. Burial will follow at Second Union Cemetery in Hinds County.
Mrs. Clark died Thursday, Aug. 1, 2002, at River Region Medical Center. She was 87.
She was a member of Mount Calvary M.B. Church, where she was on the mother’s board. She was a homemaker.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Clark; her parents, Cleveland and Joanna N. Neal; a sister, Helen Neal Rawlins; and two brothers, Tom Neal Sr. and Cleotha Neal.
Survivors include a son, Tom Neal Jr. of Vicksburg; two brothers, Willie Neal of Vicksburg and Ben Neal of Chicago; and nieces and nephews.
W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
W.T. EWELL
W.T. “Billy” Ewell died Friday, Aug. 2, 2002, at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson.
Mr. Ewell was a local business man and landowner in Warren County.
He is survived by his wife Betty Ewell of Vicksburg, his children and other relatives.
Riles Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
PHOEBE L. BROWN FREEMAN
Phoebe L. Brown Freeman died Friday, Aug. 2, 2002, at Vicksburg Medical Center. She was 71.
Mrs. Freeman was employed at Anderson Tully Co., and was a member of the Baptist faith.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Henry and Ollie Freeman; four brothers and three sisters.
She is survived by a daughter, Betty Freeman Smith of Vicksburg; two sisters, Emma McLaurin of Jackson and Dora Shoemaker of Aurora, Ill.; five grandchildren, Tammie Purvis, Tony Freeman, Tina Bure and Rondell Freeman, all of Vicksburg, and Micheal Freeman of Woodville, and seven great-grandchildren.
Williams Funeral Service has charge of arrangements.