Leila Belle Smith Coker

Published 5:00 am Monday, April 8, 2002

Prayer (graveside) services for Leila Belle Smith Coker ofBrookhaven are 2 p.m. Sunday, April 7, at Rosehill Cemetery.

Mrs. Coker, 89, died Thursday, April 4, 2002, of heart failureat Countrybrook Living Center. She was born in Yazoo County on Nov.17, 1912, to the late William E. Sr. and Jeanette Womack Smith.

She was a homemaker.

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Preceding her in death were her parents and husband, Thomas E.Coker.

Survivors are her daughters, Shirley Harwood of Gulfport andMary Carolyn Lagarand of Scottsdale, Ariz.; and grandchildren,Thomas Guy Smith of Jackson, Sherryl Silverman of Walnut Creek,Calif., Brady Harwood of Gulport and Thomas Harwood of Tampa,Fla.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the American HeartAssociation.

Harrigill Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.