Ina Marie Kessler

Published 11:29 am Thursday, July 14, 2011

Ina Marie Kessler died Tuesday, July 12, 2011, at Promise Specialty Hospital. She was 59.

Mrs. Kessler was a lifelong resident of Vicksburg and was formerly employed as a bookkeeper for Griffith’s Florist. She was a member of the Lighthouse Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Willis C. “Snow” Kessler; her father, Joe B. Henley Jr.; a brother, Joe B. Henley III; and a sister, Parsha Metzenberg.

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Survivors include her son, Michael J. Terry Jr. of Frisco, Texas; her mother, Helen Henley of Vicksburg; and four grandchildren.

Services are at 2 today at Glenwood Funeral Home with the Rev. E.L. Sharp officiating. Burial will follow at Greenlawn Gardens Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Tommy Berryhill, Lance Berryhill, Ralph Gutierrez, Billy Ray Ogden, Tommy Alexander, Lyman Greer, Mitchell Greer and Billy Joe Heggins.

Honorary pallbearers will be Drs. Paul Pierce III and Paul Pierce IV, David Jackson, Robert Metzenberg, Robert Luther and Gene Ferrell.