Pauline Brister Dunaway Coon

Published 5:00 am Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Services for Pauline Brister Dunaway Coon, of Jayess, are 2 p.m.Thursday, June 23 at Catchings Funeral Home Chapel in McComb withburial in Enon Cemetery.

Visitation is today from 5-8 p.m. and Thursday from noon until 2p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Coon, 87, died June 21, 2005, at Billdora Nursing Home inTylertown. She was born in Walthall County on June 19, 1918, toPinkie Buel Brister and Rosa Alexander Brister.

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She was retired from Kellwood Company. She was a member of EnonBaptist Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her first husband, EldaPurvis Dunaway; her second husband, Stanley Coon; one daughter,Dorothy May Lang; one grandson, Michael A. May; three brothers,Fred Brister, Marcus Brister and Jimmy Jewell Brister; and twostepsons, Everett Coon and Vilace Coon.

Survivors are her daughter, Eldena D. May, of Jayess; twostepdaughters, Evelyn Alexander, of Summit, and Joan Beal, ofJayess; one sister, Perline Cline, of Jayess; two brothers, CharlesRay, of Jayess, and Rufus Brister, of Port Arthur, Texas; onestepbrother, Bobby Earl Pennington, of Jayess; four grandchildren;five great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and numerousnieces, nephews, and other family members and friends.