Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
9:14 am Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Jessie Phene Cleveland

Jessie Phene Cleveland

February 26, 2011

Jessie Phene Cleveland, 80, of Red Bay, Ala. passed away Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011 at Helen Keller Hospital.  She was born March 6, 1930 in Itawamba County, Miss. to Hobson and Rose West Vick.  She was a seamstress for 40 years.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, March 1, 2011 at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel in Red Bay, Ala. with Bro. Coye Marbutt officiating.  Burial was in Red Bay City Cemetery.

She is survived by three children, M.L. Vick and wife, Peggy, Diane Cummings, and Danny Cleveland and wife, Joan, all of Red Bay, Ala.; five grandchildren, Billy Vick, Angie Stone, Michael Vick, Derek Cleveland and Dustin Cleveland; eight great-grandchildren; one great- great-grandchild; two brothers, Z.L. Vick and wife, Joyce, of Red Bay, Ala. and Oneal Vick and wife, Jan, of Hamilton, Ala.; five sisters, Dessie Dees and Pearline Garrison, of Red Bay, Evelyn Lovett and husband, Gene, of Tuscumbia, Ala., Wilma Lou Darby and husband, Roger, of Mooreville, Miss. and Emma Lee Dietz and husband, Mark, of Texas.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold Cleveland; her parents; son, Jimmy Harold Cleveland; two grandsons, Steven Vick and Brian Vick; and three sisters.

Pallbearers were Billy Vick, Dustin Cleveland, Michael Vick, Casey Stone, Brian Humphries, and Derek Cleveland.

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