Henrietta Bolls Martin

Published 12:00 am Wednesday, February 18, 2009

CHICAGO — Services for Henrietta Bolls Martin will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Gatlings Funeral Home in Chicago with Kenneth Bolls officiating.

Mrs. Martin died Friday, Feb. 13, 2009, at her sister’s home in Chicago. She was 83.

Mrs. Martin was a Vicksburg native. She lived in Chicago for 40 years before returning to Vicksburg.

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She attended Ebenezer Baptist Church of Vicksburg and Holy of Holies Church in Chicago.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Henry “Flat” Martin; her parents, Geneve Cooper Bolls and Clarence Bolls; a brother, Wallace Bolls; and a sister, Ulara Bolls Williams.

Survivors include three sisters, caregiver Mary Bolls Cosey and Percynell Thomas Banks, both of Chicago, and Angeline Thomas Jones of Los Angeles; and members of the Cooper, Bolls, Williams, Banks, Jackson, Lyles and Davis families.