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7:48 pm Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Obituaries for Wednesday, July 16, 2003

By Staff
Services for Fredonia Garrett Tomerlin will be held today at 1:30 p.m. at James F. Webb Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. James Williams officiating. Burial will be in Magnolia Cemetery.
Mrs. Tomerlin, 89, of Meridian, died Monday, July 14, 2003, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
Survivors include her daughter, Betty Fay McCarra and her husband, Billy, of Meridian; sons, Lamar Alton Garrett and his wife, Jean, of Meridian, Alvis Eugene Garrett and his wife, Yvonne, of Wilmington, Del., and Leon Garrett and his wife, Beverly, of Long Beach, Calif.; sisters, Margaret Pritchett and Patsy Page, both of Lauderdale; a brother, Houston Garrett of Lauderdale; 14 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Eugene Garrett.
Pallbearers will be her grandchildren.
Visitation will be today 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the funeral home.
Graveside services for Maleiyah Prince will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at Archusa Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Quitman with the Rev. William. C. Brown officiating. Berry and Gardner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Infant Prince, 3 weeks old, of Meridian, died Monday, July 14, 2003, at the University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham.
Survivors include her mother, Sabrina Prince; her father, Michael Prince; a sister, Maya Prince; brothers, Michael Devondre Prince and Michael Denzel Prince; grandparents, Sharon Summerall of Quitman, Levern Reed of Shubuta and Martha Prince of Brandon.
She was preceded in death by her grandfather, Jamie Prince.
Graveside services for Beulah H. Williams will be held at a later date at Lane Cemetery in Sibley, La.
Stephens Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Minden, La., will be in charge of further arrangements.
Mrs. Williams, 92, of Meridian, died Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at Guardian Angel Hospice in Marion.
Arrangements were incomplete at E.E. McDonald Funeral Home of DeKalb for Deborah Bell, 44, of Toomsuba, who died Monday, July 14, 2003, in Toomsuba.
Arrangements were incomplete at James F. Webb Funeral Home for Juan Troncoso Sr., 57, of Meridian, who died Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at Rush Foundation Hospital.

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