Leonard David Posey

Published 5:00 am Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Services for Leonard David Posey, of Brookhaven, are 10:30 a.m.Wednesday, June 20, at Brookhaven Funeral Home on North JacksonStreet with burial in Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery inBrookhaven.

Visitation is Tuesday from 4 until 8 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mr. Posey, 82, died June 18, 2007, at King’s Daughters MedicalCenter. He was born in Lincoln County on Dec. 5, 1924, to IraFelder Posey and Georgia Smith Posey.

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He was retired from the Mississippi State Highway Department andhad worked with Stahl-Urban. He was a United States Army veteran ofWorld War II. He was a member of Friendship Baptist Church.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his brother, CarlPosey; and his sisters, Winnie Posey and Allie Posey Smith.

Survivors are his wife, Vivian Herring Posey, of Brookhaven; hisson, Michael Felder Posey and wife Patricia, of Brookhaven; hisdaughter, Debby Bodin and husband Glenn, of Brookhaven; hisgrandchildren, Jeffrey and Joanna Posey and Kelsey and Chet Myers,of Brookhaven; and his great-grandchildren, Claire and JustinPosey, and Caleb and Taylor Myers.