Marie Yawn Ward Norrell

Published 5:00 am Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Services for Marie Yawn Ward Norrell, of Bogue Chitto, are 11a.m. Tuesday, July 25, at Brookhaven Funeral Home with burial inMontgomery Baptist Church Cemetery in Lincoln County. The Revs.Paul Clark and Christopher M. Jones will officiate.

Visitation is today from 5 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Norrell, 92, died July 22, 2006, at her residence. She wasborn in Lincoln County on Sept. 29, 1913, to Walter C. Yawn andFannie Grice Yawn.

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She was a supervisor with Potter Company for 35 years. She was amember of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents and her husbands,Raymond Ward and Charles Norrell Jr.

Survivors are her daughter, Marva Erwin and her husband Joseph,of Bogue Chitto; her brother, James Yawn, of Alice, Texas; hersister, Maxine Hillman, of Houston, Texas; her grandchildren,Michael Evan Moak and his wife Nancy, of Santa Rosa, Calif.,Patricia JoAnne Reynolds and her husband Kenny, of Chattanooga,Tenn., and Terry Ray Moak and his wife Sacia, of Bogue Chitto; andher 10 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers are Michael Moak, Terry Moak, Kenny Reynolds, DeanSnider, Jason Snider and Dr. Hugh V. Leggett.