Lawrence Armstrong

Published 11:40 am Thursday, December 22, 2011

Services for Lawrence “Chicken” Armstrong will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Lake-view Memorial Funeral Home with the Rev. Casey Fisher officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 until 6 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Mr. Armstrong died Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, at his home. He was 56.

He was a 1973 graduate of Vicksburg High School.

He was preceded in death by his mother, Mary L. Armstrong Watkins; and his father, Hamp Watkins.

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Survivors include his two sisters, Mary R. Kyles of Enterprise, Ala., and Roberta Anderson of Vicksburg; one daughter, Deonne Powell of Vicksburg; three sons, Bryant Claiborn of Baton Rouge, Patrick Claiborn of Vicksburg and Derick Robbs of Aurora, Ill.; two aunts, Sally Collins and Lucille Sanders, both of Milwaukee; two grandchildren, Bryant Claiborn Jr. and Sasha Shelly; and a number of cousins, including the Brown, Armstrong and Watkins families, J.C. Kemp and a very special friend, Minnie Rockhill.