Jessie Polk Diffrient

Published 5:00 am Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Services for Jessie Polk Diffrient, of Brookhaven, are 3:30 p.m.today, April 26 at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel with burial inEasthaven Cemetery.

Visitation is today from noon until 3:30 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mrs. Diffrient, 85, died April 24, 2005, at her residence. Shewas born in Jefferson Davis County on Oct. 28, 1919, to WilliamLuther Polk and India Robbins Polk.

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She was a homemaker and former owner of Brookhaven MonumentCompany. She was a member of First Baptist Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Belton E.Diffrient Sr.; her brothers, Clifton, Ray and J.B. Polk; hersisters, Ina Bufkin, Tima Michael and Gay Swett.

Survivors are her daughter and son-in-law, Amanda Diffrient andGreg Moriarty, of Bassfield; her son, Belton E. Diffrient Jr. andhis wife, Doris, of Loyd Star; and three grandchildren, AustinClary, Kellie Paxton, Ezra Diffrient and Stacy, Molly andBlair.

Memorials may be made to the American Diabetes Association.