Josephine Byrd Winston

Published 5:00 am Thursday, September 2, 2004

Services for Josephine Byrd Winston of Brookhaven are 2 p.m.,Saturday, Sept. 4, at Siloam M.B. Church with burial in the churchcemetery.

Visitation is Friday from noon until 7 p.m. with family hourfrom 6-7 p.m. at Williams Mortuary.

Mrs. Winston, 46, died Aug. 28, 2004, at Tulane UniversityMedical Center. She was born in Lincoln County on June 6, 1958, toOssie Byrd and Ola Mae Kelly Byrd.

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She was a 1976 graduate of West Lincoln High School. She was amember of St. Paul M.B. Church in Quentin.

Preceding her in death were her parents; and two sisters, GloriaWeathersby and Wyline Byrd.

Survivors are her daughter, Tranesha Henry of Brookhaven; hersons, Travis Byrd and Wyrick Byrd, both of Brookhaven; her lovingand devoted companion, Dameron Henry of Brookhaven; her sisters,Mary Henderson and her husband, Edward, of Brookhaven; EarnestineBurks of Brookhaven, and Phyllis Peartree of Brookhaven; herbrothers, E.C. Byrd of Brookhaven, Guy Williams of Brookhaven,Wayne Cooper of Monticello, and Cory Green of Michigan; her stepmother, Gloria Byrd of Brookhaven; two grandchildren; and a host ofnieces, nephews, cousins, uncles and friends.