Obituaries for Thursday, July 8
Published 5:00 am Thursday, July 8, 2004
Earnestine Baggett
Services for Earnestine Baggett of Sontag are 2 p.m., Saturday,July 10, at Mt. Pleasant M.B. Church with burial in the churchcemetery.
Visitation is Friday from noon to 7 p.m., at WilliamsMortuary.
Ms. Baggett, 55, died July 5, 2004, at her residence. She wasborn in Lawrence County on May 14, 1949, to Willie D. Baggett andMae Ethel Lewis Baggett.
She was a member of Mt. Pleasant M.B. Church.
Preceding her in death were her parents, and two brothers,Excell Baggett and Larry Eugene Baggett.
Survivors are her sisters, Celestine Thompson of Inglewood,Calif., Ethelene Henderson of Sontag, Beverly Denise Baggett ofSontag, Jenifer Marie Baggett of Sontag, and Billie Jean Baggett ofUnion City, Ga.; and six brothers, Willie James Baggett ofInglewood, Calif., Clarence Edward Baggett of Lithonia, Ga.,Alphonso Baggett of Sontag, Linza Ray Baggett of Sontag, KennethBaggett Taylor of Gulfport and James Baggett Taylor ofGulfport.
Helen J. Herrington
Services for Helen J. Herrington of Brookhaven are 2 p.m.,Thursday, July 8, at Community Funeral Services Chapel with burialin Antioch Cemetery.
Visitation was Wednesday from 6-9 p.m., at the funeral home.
Mrs. Herrington, 73, died July 6, 2004, at King’s DaughterMedical Center. She was born in Porters, Texas, on June 5, 1931, toWilliam James and Agnus Miller.
Preceding her in death were her parents, and her husband,William Mills.
Survivors are her daughters, Marlena Boyd, Mary Tadnier andSheLona Wilson, all of Mississippi, Belinda Fultz of Florida, andBarbara Mills Macham of Pennsylvania; her sons, Robert Mills ofBrookhaven, Thomas Mills of Terre Haute, Ind., and Donald Mills ofHillsbourough, Texas; her sisters, Veleda Pipkins of Moss Point,Sandra Carpenter of New Caney, Texas, Lorine Entrekin of Petal, andDana Herrington of Ovett; her brother, Ramond Frank James of MossPoint; 19 grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren.
Bertie W. Patt
Services for Bertie W. Patt of McCall Creek are 2 p.m.,Thursday, July 8, at Ramah Baptist Church with burial in the churchcemetery. Harrigill Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Visitation was Wednesday from 4-9 p.m., at the funeral home.
Mrs. Patt, 69, died July 5, 2004, at her residence. She was bornin Franklin County on Dec. 21, 1934, to Bill Wilson and BessieWilson.
She was a homemaker. She was a member of Ramah BaptistChurch.
Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Ebbie PattJr.; her son, Ebbie Keith Patt; one sister; and one brother.
Survivors are her daughter, Connie Lambert of McCall Creek; onesister, Audrey Murkey of Meadville; five grandchildren; and threegreat-grandchildren.