Shirley Huell-Reed died Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, at River Region Medical Center. She was 51.

Mrs. Huell-Reed was a lifelong resident of Vicksburg. She was a 1978 graduate of Vicksburg High School and a 1982 graduate of Alcorn State University. She was a member of Traveler’s Rest M.B. Church, where she was a youth mentor and Women’s Missionary Ministry team leader. She was employed at Waterways Experiment Station and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District, serving as deputy of the Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Office.

She received numerous awards, including the Vicksburg District Woman of the Year 1992, Department of the Army Commander’s Award for Civilian Service in 1999, Mississippi Minority Small Business Advocate of the Year Award 2004 and the Department of the Army Superior Civilian Service Award in 2006.

Mrs. Huell-Reed was a member of the Alcorn Alumni Association’s local chapter, the Warren County Baptist Women’s Auxiliary and the women’s department of the General Mississippi Baptist State Convention. She was secretary of the MCIA Investment Club and a registrar of the Vicksburg Extension of the Mississippi Baptist Seminary and College.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Benny and Senola Huell; and a brother, Edward Huell.

Survivors include her husband, Calvin E. Reed Sr. of Vicksburg; her son, Calvin E. Reed Jr. of Vicksburg; a daughter, Candice LaDonna Reed-Goodwin of Vicksburg; five brothers, George Huell of Huntsville, Ala., Bennie Huell Jr., Perry Huell and Morris Shelton, all of Vicksburg, and Larry Gray of Oklahoma; two sisters, Doris Stewart of Florida and Tina Turner of Vicksburg; and aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Vicksburg City Auditorium with the Rev. Thomas Bernard officiating. Burial will follow at Hickory Tree Cemetery. Visitation will be tonight from 5 until 7 at W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home.