Charlie Lewis

Published 11:04 am Thursday, September 27, 2012

Services for Charlie Lewis will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Bethlehem M.B. Church with the Rev. Roosevelt Smith officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 until 6 p.m. Friday at W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home.

Mr. Lewis died Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, at Regency Hospital of St. Dominic’s in Jackson. He was 74.

Born in Marengo County, Ala., he was a retired logger and of the Baptist faith.

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He was preceded in death by his parents, Omie Lee and Henrietta Moody Lewis.

He is survived by his companion of 30 years, Bernetha Mae Killian of Vicksburg; a daughter, Dorry Benison of Demopolis, Ala.; five brothers, Eugene Lewis of Bessemer, Ala., and Willie Lee Lewis, Connie Lee Lewis, Ceaser Earl Lewis and Roy Lewis, all of Demopolis; three sisters, Mary Anderson of Mobile, Ala., and Loeletha Rowser and Odessa Head, both of Demopolis; and nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives, including Edna Lynch of Notasulga, Ala.