Obituaries for Thursday, May 15, 2003

By Staff
Homemaker
Services for Mary Alice Joseph will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Paradise Church of God in Christ, with Elder Ozell Colburn officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Enterprise Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Joseph, 88, of Meridian, died Saturday, May 10, 2003, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
Survivors include her husband, Arthur Joseph of Meridian; a son, James Taiwon Joseph, of Meridian; daughters, Lucrady Coleman of St. Louis, Lisa Joseph Jenkins and her husband, Joe, of Meridian, Maggie Joseph Sloan of Detroit, Alfreda Bell of Mountville, Ala. and Vivian McWilliams of Los Angeles; a daughter-in-law, Mabel Joseph of Meridian; sisters-in-law, Ruby Alkamakpe of Los Angeles, Thelma Hugh and Martha Joseph, both of Thibodaux, La.; a son-in-law, Joe Jenkins of Meridian; 20 grandchildren; 41 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by her parents, and a son, James McElroy.
Visitation will be Friday 7 p.m.-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Arrangements were incomplete at Clark's Memorial Funeral Home for Amelia Lynch, 94, of Meridian, who died Thursday, May 15, 2003, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
Arrangements were incomplete at Clark's Memorial Funeral Home for Lou D. Smith, 79, of Causeyville, who died Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at Riley Hospital.
Arrangements were incomplete at Barham Funeral Home for Billie J. Ezell, 82, of Meridian, who died Thursday, May 15, 2003, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
Arrangements were incomplete at Stephens Funeral Home for Thomas Rupert Chisolm, of Enterprise, who died Thursday, May 15, 2003, in Birmingham, Ala.