Alice L. Porter Terrell

Published 5:00 am Thursday, September 2, 2004

Services for Alice L. Porter Terrell of Bogue Chitto are 2 p.m.,Sunday, Sept. 5, at Mt. Zion M.B. Church in Bogue Chitto withburial in the church cemetery.

Visitation is Saturday from noon until 7 p.m. with familypresent from 6-7 p.m. at R.E. Tyler Funeral Home.

Mrs. Terrell, 57, died Aug. 30, 2004, at Southwest RegionalMedical Center in McComb. She was born in Lincoln County on Jan. 7,1947, to the Rev. Jimmie Porter and Mammie Lee Smith Porter ofBogue Chitto.

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She was a graduate of Mississippi Valley State University. Shewas a former case worker at the Lincoln County Food Stamp officeand worked in the Lincoln County Tax Assessor’s office. She waslast employed as an assistant manager at Kroger. She attendedAbundant Life Church and considered herself a missionary forChrist. She was a member of Mt. Zion M.B. Church.

Preceding her in death were her father; one brother, ArthurPorter; and one sister, Blanche Porter.

Survivors are her mother; her husband, Leo Terrell Jr. of BogueChitto; her daughters, Tammy Renee Terrell-McNair of Starkville andCynthia Terrell of Bogue Chitto; her sons, Leo Terrell III ofJayess, and LeKeith Terrell of Bogue Chitto; her sisters, InezHumphrey of Brookhaven, Louise Porter, JoAnn Hunt and Lisa Hunt,all of Bogue Chitto; her brothers, Isaac Porter of Pascagoula,Jimmie “JP” Porter, Oscar Porter, and Larry Porter, all ofBrookhaven, Robert Porter and John Porter, both of Bogue Chitto,and David Lewis Porter of Springfield, La.; four grandchildren; anda host of nieces and nephews.