Obituaries for Tuesday, October 28

Published 6:00 am Tuesday, October 28, 2003

Isabelle Franklin

Services for Isabelle Franklin of Brookhaven are 1 p.m.,Tuesday, Oct. 28, at Rosehill M.B. Church with burial in the churchcemetery. Williams Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Miss Franklin, 95, died Oct. 23, 2003, at King’s DaughtersMedical Center. She was born in Lincoln County on June 5, 1908, toWill Franklin and Florence Franklin.

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She was disabled. She was a member of Rosehill M.B. Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; two sisters, AleanWells and Beulah Jacob; and eight brothers, Johnny Franklin, JesseFranklin, Benjamin Franklin, Frank Franklin, Luther Franklin, AmealFranklin, Norman Franklin and William Franklin.

Survivors are her special niece, Ruth Hughes of Brookhaven; anda host of nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, othercousins and friends.

Hazel Marie James Fuller

Services for Hazel Marie James Fuller of Monticello were 11a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 28, at Bethel Baptist Church with burial in thechurch cemetery. Wilson Funeral Home was in charge ofarrangements.

Mrs. Fuller, 93, died Oct. 25, 2003, at Forest General Hospital.She was born in Lawrence County on Jan. 15, 1910, to William E.James and Minnie L. Johnson.

She was a retired seamstress with Kellwood Co. She was ahousewife and a member of Bethel Baptist Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents, her husband, JohnnieWeber Fuller, a son, two sisters, six brothers and agranddaughter.

Survivors are her daughters, Lucille Kalous of Jackson, andVoncile Dunn of Hattiesburg; her sons, Johnny Edward Fuller ofNorthport, Ala., and William W. Fuller of Jayess; her sister, FloyEvans of Monticello; her brother, Conn James of Big Springs, Texas;10 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and twogreat-great-grandchildren.

Nellie Mae Killingsworth

Services for Nellie Mae Killingsworth of Monticello are 2 p.m.,Tuesday, Oct. 28, at Wilson Funeral Home Chapel with burial in NewZion Baptist Church Cemetery.

Mrs. Killingsworth, 90, died Oct. 26, 2003, at Lawrence CountyHospital. She was born in Vita, Ala., on Nov. 26, 1912, to JamesElliot Mims and Sara Elizabeth Jones.

She was a homemaker.

Preceding her in death were her parents, her husband, E. LynnKillingsworth, three sisters and two brothers.

Survivors are her daughter, Dorothy Foster; her sons, Howard M.Killingsworth, Horace L. Killingsworth, Billy J. Killingsworth,Wayne Killingsworth and James Roy Killingsworth; 16 grandchildren,29 great-grandchildren and nine great-great-grandchildren.

Lanita Hurdle Pittma

Services for Lanita Hurdle Pittman, a resident of St.Catherine’s Village in Madison, are 1 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 29, atBroadmeadow United Methodist Church with burial in Parkway MemorialCemetery. Wright and Ferguson Funeral Home in Ridgeland is incharge of arrangements.

Visitation is Tuesday, Oct. 28 from 5-7 p.m., at the funeralhome.

Mrs. Pittman, 78, died Monday, Oct. 27, 2003, at St.Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital. She was born in MarshallCounty.

She attended high school in Holly Springs and graduated withhonors from the University of Southern Mississippi. She was thewife of the Rev. Warren Pittman, a United Methodist minister, whoserved churches together at St. Luke’s Broadmeadow, Forest Hill,Hattiesburg’s Parkway Heights, Forest Monticello and CentervilleUnited Methodist Churches. She served as church pianist, secretaryand choir member. She was active in the United Methodist Women andDistrict, Conference and Jurisdictional Activities of the church.She was very supportive of her church. Her highest reward was theachievement of her children.

Survivors are her husband; her sons and daughters-in-law, Tomand Cyndi Pittman of Hernando, and Bob and Veronique Pittman of NewYork City; her brother, Sidney Hurdle of Holly Springs; hergrandchildren, Jonathan Pittman of Oxford, Robert Thomas “Bo”Pittman of Philadelphia, Pa., David Pittman of Exeter, N.H., AndrewPittman of New York and Lucy Pittman of New York; and numerousnieces and nephews.

Memorials may be made to St. Catherine’s Village Foundation.