Jessie Mae Stewart-Hedrick

Published 10:51 am Thursday, June 25, 2015

PORT GIBSON — Jessie Mae Stewart-Hedrick died Wednesday, June 17, 2015, at Merit River Region Medical Center. She was 87.

Mrs. Hedrick was preceded in death by her mother, Matilda Stewart; two sons, Tommie Hedrick, Jr. and Lee Arthur Hedrick; two daughters, Rosetta Franklin and Helen Hedrick; and two granddaughters, Chekita Hedrick-Bell and Melvina Hedrick.

Survivors include her husband, Tommie “T.J.” Hedrick of Tillman; four sons, Henry E. Stewart of Leesville, La., Joe Lee Hedrick of New Orleans, Wilbert Hedrick of Tillman and Darrel Hedrick of Pattison; three daughters, Loretta Hedrick and Cleo Hedrick, both of Tillman, and Shirley Hedrick of Vicksburg; a daughter-in-law; 43 grandchildren; 62 great-grandchildren; 23 great-great-grandchildren; and nieces, nephews, and other relatives and friends.

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Services will be 1 p.m., Saturday, June 27, 2015, at Awesome Christ Warrior Outreach Tabernacle in Port Gibson with Pastor Chester Watts officiating. Burial will be at Forrest Grove Cemetery in Pattison under the direction of Thompson Funeral Home Inc.

Visitation will be Friday from 1 to 6 p.m. at the funeral home, and Saturday at the church from noon until the service.