Desiree Lane

By Staff
Homemaker
DEKALB Services for Desiree Lane will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Union Baptist Church in Scooba with the Rev. L.C. Clay officiating. Burial will be in Blues Chapel Cemetery in Scooba. E.E. McDonald Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Lane, 78, of Scooba, died Sunday, Jan. 26, 2003, at Regency Hospital in Meridian.
Survivors include her daughters, Alice Maxer of Scooba and Pearlie Lane of Blue Island, Ill.; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild; and a host of relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her son, and a brother.
Visitation will be today from 1 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. at the funeral home and one hour prior to the services at the church on Saturday.
Ella V. Mabry
Homemaker
Services for Ella V. Mabry will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Stephens Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Mike Boles officiating. Burial will be in Stinson Cemetery.
Mrs. Mabry, 80, of Meridian, died Thursday, Jan. 30, 2003, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
Survivors include her daughters, Gloria Wood and Dottie McCoy, both of Meridian; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert J. Mabry; her parents, James and Daisy Nester and six brothers.
Visitation will be one hour prior to the services at the funeral home.
Iva V. Steele
Services for Iva V. Steele will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Carmel Baptist Church, with Rev. Bill Webb officiating.
Mrs. Steele, 84, of Meridian died Thursday, Jan. 30, 2003, at Rush Hospital. She was a member of Carmel Baptist Church, where she taught Sunday school. She was retired from Freuhauf, and Meridian Manufacturing Company. She was a devoted wife and mother.
Survivors include her husband, the Rev. Jesse Steele of Meridian; three sons, Billy G. Hastings and his wife, Shirley, of Meridian, Wayne Hastings and his wife, Anita, of Laurel, and David M. Steele and his wife, Kim, of Miami; a daughter, Thelma Harris of Pottsbour, Texas; a brother Lester White and his wife, Peggy, of Merdian; 10 grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren, four great great grandchildren, two great great great grandchildren; two step sisters, Ruby Reece and Mary Boswell, both of Meridian; one sister-in-law, Lessie Morgan of Meridian; a special friend Sherry Steele of Pensacola, Fla.; and a number of nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents Benjamin Stephen White and Jewell White Johnson and two brothers Maurice White and Rayborn White.
The family requests memorials be made the American Heart Association.
Pallbearers will be Joe Wilkerson, Larry Whitehead, Fred Bean, John Flannagan, George Taylor and Ricky Reece.
Visitation will be today from 5 p.m.-8 p.m. and 30 minutes prior to the service.
Lillie M. Betts
Homemaker
DEKALB Services for Lillie M. Betts will be held Sunday at 1 p.m. at New Hope Baptist Church in Toomsuba, with the Rev. S.M. Robinson officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. E.E. McDonald Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Betts, 91, of Toomsuba, died Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2003, at Riley Nursing Center in Meridian.
Survivors include three daughters, Rilla Tyler and Ruby Bell, both of Toomsuba, and Mattie Greene, of Detroit, Mich.; four sons, Jame Leon Betts and his wife, Effie, of Meridian, Arthur Betts of Detroit, L.J. Betts and Rosco Betts and his wife, Rosie, all of Toomsuba; 19 grandchildren, 26 great grandchildren; and a number of relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her husband and two sons.
Visitation will be Saturday from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. at the funeral home chapel in Meridian.
Willie C. Merritt
Arrangements were incomplete at Clark's Memorial Funeral Home for Willie C. Merritt, 76, of Meridian, who died Thursday, Jan. 30, 2003, at Heartfelt Hospice.
Connor O. Tucker
Arrangements were incomplete at Clark's Memorial Funeral Home for Connor O. Tucker, 90, of Meridian, who died Thursday, Jan. 30, 2003, at Guardian Angel Hospice.