Vivian Delois Thames

Published 6:00 am Monday, February 17, 2003

Services for Vivian Delois Thames of Brookhaven are 2 p.m.,Saturday, Feb. 15, at Bethel Temple Pentecostal Church with burialin the church cemetery.

Visitation is today from 5-9 p.m., at Brookhaven FuneralHome.

Mrs. Thames, 88, died Feb. 13, 2003, at King’s Daughters MedicalCenter. She was born in Lincoln County on March 6, 1914, to WillieMartin and Mollie Williamson Martin.

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She was a retired nurse technician, with 27 years service atKing’s Daughters Medical Center. She was a member of Bethel TemplePentecostal Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, BenjaminThames; her brothers, Jessie Martin, Estus Martin and Ralph Martin;and three sisters, Myrtis Allen, Elvis Sartin and LillianMartin.

Survivors are her son, Doyle Thames of Ruth; her daughter,Yvonne Wooten of Brookhaven; her sisters, Melva Boyte and JewellMartin, both of Brookhaven; and eight grandchildren, eightgreat-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.