Willard E. Nevels

Published 5:00 am Monday, April 2, 2007

Services for Willard E. Nevels, of Brookhaven, are 2 p.m.Tuesday, April 3, at Riverwood Family Funeral Service Chapel withburial in Rosehill Cemetery.

Visitation is Monday from 5 until 9 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mr. Nevels, 85, died April 1, 2007, at his residence. He wasborn on June 2, 1921, to Elmer S. Nevels and Anna Smith Nevels.

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He was retired from the salvage business. He was a United StatesAir Force veteran of World War II. He was a Mason and a Shriner. Hewas a member of Pearlhaven Baptist Church in Brookhaven.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his brothers, JamesNevels, Paul Nevels, Donald Nevels, Robert Nevels, Ivan Nevels andJerry Nevels; and his sisters, Mildred N. Stewart and Irene N.Price.

Survivors are his wife, Audrey Keyes Nevels, of Brookhaven; hisdaughters, Sylvia Nevels Campbell and husband David C. Campbell, ofBrookhaven, and Joyce Nevels Bullard and husband Michael A.Bullard, of Clinton; his brothers, Memphis Howard Nevels and RalphNevels, both of Brookhaven; his sister, Doris N. Brown, ofBrookhaven; his grandchildren, Chris Campbell, Dan Campbell, MarkBullard and John Bullard; and his great-grandchildren, KirstieCampbell, Alyssa Campbell and Mason Bullard.

Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association.