Lillian Hunter Gaines

Published 11:10 am Thursday, March 10, 2016

Funeral services for Lillian Hunter Gaines will be noon Saturday, March 12, 2016, at the Gospel Temple M. B. Church at with the Rev. Walter Edley officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery under the direction of W. H. Jefferson Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Gaines died Tuesday, March 1, 2016, at the Promise Hospital. She was 95.

She was a homemaker and member of the Gospel Temple M. B. Church.

She was preceded in death by her father, Thomas Hunter, and mother Lelia Ballard; husband, Lee Andrew Gaines Sr., sons, Lee Andrew Gaines Jr., Richard Gaines and Thomas Gaines; daughter, Lola Porter; sister Sadie Clark.

Survivors include her son, Rueben Gaines of Dallas; daughter, Sadie Jackson of Vicksburg; 14 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; and 15 great-great-grandchildren, and a goddaughter.