Evelyn Gaines Graham
Published 12:04 pm Thursday, October 21, 2010
Services for Evelyn Gaines Graham will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Calvary M.B. Church with the Rev. Rudy Smith officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 until 7 p.m. Friday at Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home and Saturday at the church from 12:30 p.m. until the service.
Mrs. Graham was preceded in death by her husband, Nathaniel Graham; her parents, Alfred and Lucille Gaines; one son, Charles W. Gaines; one daughter, Lucille Davis Harris; four brothers, Randolph Gaines, Rudolph Gaines, Booker T. Gaines and Rowan Gaines; and three sisters, Johnnie L. Gaines, Juanita Peters and Lenora McCray.
Survivors include four daughters, Geraldine McDonald Benson of Jackson, Georgia Gaines and Patricia Ann Graham, both of Vicksburg, and Darneshia Clark of Greenville; two sons, Lionelle Davis and Nathaniel Gaines, both of Vicksburg; four sisters, Hattie Walton of Fayette, Viola Scott of Vicksburg, Mae Etta Penn of Richmond, Calif., and Dorothy Spencer of Atchison, Kan.; 21 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; 10 great-great grandchildren; and nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
Mrs. Graham died Friday, Oct. 15, 2010, at Covenant Health & Rehab of Vicksburg. She was 90.