Doris Bell Russell

Published 5:00 am Friday, July 20, 2007

Services for Doris Bell Russell, of Jackson, are 2 p.m.Saturday, July 21, in the chapel of Wright & Ferguson FuneralHome on High Street in Jackson with burial following in LakewoodMemorial Park.

Visitation is Saturday from 1 p.m. until the time of the serviceat the funeral home.

Mrs. Russell, 90, died July 17, 2007, at Ridgeland Pointe.

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She was born on Sept. 9, 1916, in Greenwood, the daughter ofDecatur and Eva Bell. She graduated from the public school systemin Greenwood and continued her education at Mississippi College.She and her husband, Edward, moved to Jackson in 1946, and hebecame a partner in the family wholesale grocery business, theRussell Company. In 1954 they moved to Vicksburg where he took overa division of the company. In 1977, they

returned to Jackson to retire. Mrs. Russell was a member ofFaith Presbyterian Church in Brookhaven, the Daughters of theAmerican Revolution, United Daughters of the Confederacy, ColonialDames, Colonial Clergy, and the United Daughters of the War of1812.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Edward H.Russell; her brother, Billy West Bell and her sister, Allene B.Ulrich.

Survivors are her son, Edward H. Russell Jr. and wife Cindy, ofNew York City; her daughters, Diane Russell, of Andalusia, Ala.,Carol Russell, of Naples, Italy, Merrie Boerner and husband Bill,of Brookhaven; and Nancy Reno and husband Jerry, of Brookhaven; her15 grandchildren, including Brad Boerner and wife Lissa, and theirdaughter Quinn, of Brookhaven; Michael Boerner, of Jackson; BetsyB. Belk and husband Nic, and their daughter Violet, of Brookhaven;Jenny and Dustin Byars, of Starkville, Russ McNees, of Booneville,and Josh Reno, of Brookhaven. Mrs. Russell had a total of 15great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to French Camp Academy, French Camp,Miss.