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2:02 am Monday, March 19, 2007

Glader Mae Mills

By Staff
March 14, 2007
Glader Mae Mills, age 93, of Golden, MS, passed away Wednesday, March 14, 2007, at Care Center of Red Bay.
She was born March 12, 1914 in Itawamba County, MS to Fisher D. and Nora Thornton Johnson. She was a homemaker and a member of Antioch Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Henry Mills; a son, Paul Mills; a sister, Sybil Mills; five brothers, Julius Johnson, Adron Johnson, Donnis Johnson, Vonnie Johnson and an infant brother; and her parents.
Funeral services were held at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, March 16, 2007, at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel in Red Bay with Bro. Terry Paul Graham, Bro. James Rutledge and Mike Mills officiating. Interment was in Sandy Springs Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Mrs. Mills' great-grandsons.
Mrs. Mills is survived by one daughter, Vera Mae Holcomb of Golden, MS; one daughter-in-law, Debbie Mills of Tennessee; one brother, Ernest Johnson and wife Quina, of Fulton, MS; two sisters, Etoye Waddle and husband Eudith and Dorothy Taylor, both of Fulton, MS; four sisters-in-law, Bernice Johnson, Merlene Johnson, Hope Johnson and Kathrine Johnson; eight grandchildren; and a host of great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
Deaton Funeral Home assisted the family.

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