Rebecca Anne Shaw

Published 12:27 am Sunday, July 4, 2010

Rebecca Anne Shaw, 54, of Vicksburg, died Thursday, July 1, 2010, in Hattiesburg. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, July 5, 2010, at Frank J. Fisher Funeral Home. Burial will be at Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until the service at the funeral home.

Her boys were her life. She enjoyed caring for her family. She was a research support assistant with Bowhead Information Technology at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg for 25 years.

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She was preceded in death by her sister, Susan Lynn Broyles; paternal grandparents, William K. and Mary Alice Kirk Dornbusch; and maternal grandparents, Bill and Viola Harris.

Survivors include her parents, William Kette Dornbusch and Patricia Harris Small; two sons, William (Kari) Leist and Cullen Patrick Leist; and a grandson, Willliam Maddox Leist.

Pallbearers will be Allan King, Taylore Maddux, Glenn Rhett, Jack Leist, Bill West and Rick Carmichael.

Honorary pallbearers will be Eric Worthy and Craig Fischenich.

Memorials may be made to Make-A-Wish Foundation of Mississippi, 4800 Interstate 55 North, Suite 30, Jackson, MS 39211.