Danella Raworth Conway

Published 11:30 am Monday, December 19, 2011

Danella Raworth Conway died peacefully Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, at St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital in Jackson. She was 89.

Mrs. Conway, a native of Vicksburg who lived at Eagle Lake following her marriage, was the daughter of the late William McCutchen and Danella Wells Raworth. She was a communicant of The Church of the Holy Trinity, Episcopal, Vicksburg.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 50 years, Eustace Conway Jr., who died in 1997; by her brother, William McCutchen Raworth Jr.; and by her sister, Emily Raworth Compton.

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She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Danella Conway and William Boyce Craig of Madison; by a son and daughter-in-law, Kathy Cronia and Eustace Conway III of Vicksburg; by her four grandsons, William Boyce Craig and Conway Raworth Craig of Madison and Eustace Cowan Conway and George Wilson Conway of Vicksburg; and by her granddaughter, Kristin Craig Nipper. She is also survived by her nieces, Emily Compton Greene of Baton Rouge, Danella Compton Weatherly of Vicksburg, Elizabeth Compton Garland of Jackson and Caroline Compton Thomas of Greensboro, N.C.; and by her nephew, Joseph Russell Compton Jr. of San Diego, Calif.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at The Church of the Holy Trinity, Episcopal, Vicksburg, with the Revs. David Elliott and Luther Ott officiating. Burial will be at Cedar Hill Cemetery with Riles Funeral Home in charge. Visitation will be at McInnis Parish Hall at the church from 9:30 a.m. Tuesday until the hour of the service.

Active pallbearers will be William B. Craig, Conway R. Craig, E. Cowan Conway, Robert H. Weatherly, Steven P. Drown and W. Keith Kellum II.

Honorary pallbearers will be the Rev. Clifton J. McInnis, Lee Davis Thames, Joe Bonelli and George Kette.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Jacob’s Ladder Learning Center, 1017 Harrison St., Vicksburg, MS 39180.