Millard Ruth Cosby

Published 10:15 am Friday, September 2, 2016

Millard Ruth Cosby died Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016, at the Bluffs Rehab Health Care Center. She was 85.

Mrs. Cosby was preceded in death by her father, John Ross; mother, Ethel L. Brown; daughter, Constance McCoy White; son, Dwayne Palmer; and nephew, Kenneth Ross.

Survivors include her three daughters, Paula Green (Aaron), Hope Ross and Angela Palmer, all of Vicksburg; one son, Halbert Cosby of Vicksburg; one sister, Loice Mixon of Vicksburg; one goddaughter, Gladys Lumpkin of Vicksburg; god sister, Pinkie Lee Donerson of Memphis, Tenn.; and a host of grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

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Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 4, at Holly Grove Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Robert L. Miller officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery under the direction of Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home. Visitation will be held at Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home Saturday, Sept. 3, from 1:30 until 7 p.m. with family present from 5 to 7 p.m.