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Willie Lee Jones

Services for Willie Lee Jones will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Church of Christ with Silas Tolliver officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 1 until 6 tonight at Williams Funeral Service and Saturday from noon until the service.

Mrs. Jones died Monday, Dec. 3, 2007, at River Region Medical Center. She was 85.

Mrs. Jones was a homemaker and a member of Church of Christ on Mission 66.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Major Jones; her parents, John Island and Alberta Catron; a daughter, Mary Frances Cook; and a grandson, Donnie Jones.

She is survived by grandsons whom she reared, Danny Jones of Vicksburg, Terry Shaw of Chicago and Michael Shaw of Alabama; granddaughters, Jackie Shaw of Wisconsin, Michelle Taylor, Uricola Shaw and Shaniece Shaw, all of Chicago; and other relatives, including Violet Bolden and Ethel Edwards, both of Vicksburg, and Johnnie Taylor of Chicago.

Melinda A. Perkins

YAZOO CITY — Melinda A. Perkins died Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007, at University Medical Center in Jackson. She was 44.

A native of Delta City, Mrs. Perkins had lived in Baton Rouge for a number of years and lived in Yazoo City for the past 10 years.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Otis and Irene Woods.

She is survived by a son, Michael Perkins of Baton Rouge; a daughter, Rebecca Perkins of Baton Rouge; two brothers, Keith Woods and Randal Woods, both of Greenville; and three sisters, Sandra Bridges and Valeda King, both of Jackson, and Andra Geise of Hernando.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Glenwood Funeral Home in Rolling Fork with the Rev. Nick Smith officiating. Burial will follow at Hollandale Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. Saturday until the hour of service.

Iler Ann Bounds Pope

BATON ROUGE, La. — Iler Ann Bounds Pope, a New Orleans restaurateur, died suddenly on Nov. 29, 2007, at the age of 68 at her home in Baton Rouge, La.

She was a native of Mississippi’s Delta town, Drew. She attended All Saints’ Episcopal School in Vicksburg, graduating from Drew High School before going to Mississippi University for Women. Becoming a mainstay of the New Orleans restaurant world in 1977, she opened the restaurant, Dante-by-the-River, and across the street, Dante Street Deli. In 1991, she opened Cafe Atchafalaya on Louisiana Avenue. She moved to Baton Rouge in 2004.

She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Iler and Anna Netterville; her mother, Elvie Netterville Bounds May; her stepfather, Joseph Vernon May Sr.; her father, Roland Bounds; and a brother, Joseph Vernon May, Jr.

Iler Pope is survived by her son, Richard Lamar Pope, Jr.; and her grandchild, Kathleen Elizabeth Pope of Bellevue, Wash.; her brother, Woodie Hall Bounds II and his sons, Woodie Hall Bounds III and Roland Benjamin Bounds of Jackson; her companion, Elizabeth Holloway; her friends, Milda Baker, Susan Finch, Mary Ann Keith and Inez Dunlap, and myriad classmates, customers and friends who counted her as a dear and close friend and supporter.

The funeral will be at the United Methodist Church in Drew at 1 p.m. today, Dec. 7. Visitation will be from noon until the hour of service at the church.

She will be interred at the Drew Cemetery after the service.

The pallbearers will be Shelby Sessums, James Donald Cooper, Tom Davis, Bobby Bounds, Buddy Netterville, Charles McGuffee and James McLinn.

Ray Funeral Home, Cleveland, Mississippi, is handling the funeral.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Association, the American Heart Association or to a charity of choice.

Pauline Kelly Williams

Pauline “Buck” Kelly Williams died Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007, at her home in Vicksburg. She was 58.

Born in Clarksdale, Mrs. Williams was a homemaker. She was a member and former usher at New Rock of Ages M.B. Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank Jr. and Earline Richards Kelly; a son, Willie James Harris; a daughter, Mozella Harris; one brother, Ruben Kelly; and four sisters, Christine Promise, Lucille Jones, Susie Bell Norris Brown and Josephine Turner.

Survivors include her husband, R.B. Williams of Vicksburg; five sons, William Edwards, Christopher Harris, Shirray Harris, Shawn Harris and Justin Harris, all of Vicksburg; a stepson, Jimmy Lee Williams of Del City, Va.; one daughter, May Lee Harris of Vicksburg; four stepdaughters, Diana Shumpert of Starkville and Martha Lee Williams, Mary W. King and Joyann Marie Williams, all of Vicksburg; one brother, Charles Kelly of Vicksburg; one sister, Frankie Mae Hall of Vicksburg; 10 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

W.H.. Jefferson Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.