Elnora Kelly

Published 12:00 am Thursday, November 20, 2008

Services for Elnora Kelly will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Mount Zion No. 4 M.B. Church with the Rev. Henry Mayfield officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery under the direction of W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home.

Mrs. Kelly died Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, at Shady Lawn Nursing Home. She was 89.

Mrs. Kelly was a homemaker and had worked at Head Start. She was a member of Mount Zion No. 4 M.B. Church, where she was a member of the Burial Society. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Willing Workers Club and Rainbow Birthday Club.

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She was preceded in death by a daughter, Nora Mae Erves; her father, Douglas Brown; and her mother, Lubertha Wiggins.

Survivors include three sons, Walter Kelly and Caleb Kelly, both of Vicksburg, and James Willis Kelly of Chicago; one daughter, Johnnie Mae Kelly of Chicago; two brothers, Abe Wiggins and Perry Wiggins; two sisters, Martha Harris and Mary Givens, both of Vicksburg; and grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives.