Obituaries for Monday, September 27, 2004

Published 5:00 am Monday, September 27, 2004

Betty Jean Williams Ford

Services for Betty Jean Williams Ford of Meadville are 2 p.m.Tuesday, Sept. 28, at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church with burial in ZionCemetery in Roxie.

Visitation is Monday from 1-5 p.m. at Marshall Funeral Home inBude.

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Mrs. Ford, 66, died following a lengthy illness on Sept. 23,2004, at Franklin Memorial Hospital. She was born in FranklinCounty on Jan. 21, 1938, to Luther C. Williams Sr. and Jessie BeeWilliams.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of her church choir.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband; a son;four brothers; and three sisters.

Survivors are her three daughters, Etta Ford and Delories Burks,both of Meadville, and Lucille Boyd of Atlanta, Ga.; one son, JerryFord of Oklahoma City, Okla.; four brothers, Roy Williams of Kirby,Luther C. Williams Jr. of Meadville, Charlie Cameron of Kirby, andAlton Covington of Meadville; her five sisters, Clara Starks andWilhelmenia Harris, both of Meadville, Alice Jackson and DorothyFord, both of Roxie, and Bertha Summerville of Chicago, Ill.

Edna Frances Harveston Furlow

Services for Edna Frances Harveston Furlow of Brookhaven are 3p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28, at Community Funeral Services Chapel withburial in Easthaven Cemetery.

Visitation is today from 5-9 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Furlow, 89, died Sept. 25, 2004, at Mississippi BaptistMedical Center. She was born in Lincoln County on Nov. 10, 1914, toJohn W. Harveston and Myrtice Furr Harveston.

She was retired from Stahl-Urban and Kellwood where she hadworked for 30 years. She was a member of Pearlhaven BaptistChurch.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, William A.Furlow; two brothers; and two sisters.

Survivors are her daughter, LaNora Nevels of Brookhaven; hersisters, Betty Montgomery of Brookhaven, Dorthy Scoggins of Mobile,Ala., and Joan Haynes of Brookhaven; her brother, Richard Harvestonof Brookhaven; her grandsons, Donald Nevels Jr. and his wife, SusanBeall, and Dwayne Nevels and his wife, Johnnie, all of Brookhaven;her great grandchildren, Deidra Nevels and Dwayne Nevels Jr., bothof Brookhaven; a host of nieces and nephews; her friends atCountrybrook Living Center; and Mrs. Nell Barlow of Atlanta,Ga.