Services for Edna Estelle Lowery, of Hazlehurst, were held at11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 12, at Sylvarena Baptist Church inWesson with burial in the church cemetery. Community FuneralServices is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Lowery, 80, died Dec. 10, 2007, at her residence. She wasborn on June 19, 1927, to Amos Brown and Etta Brown.

She was employed with Mickey’s Cafe for 30 years. She was amember of Westside Baptist Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her son, Paul A.W.Parrette; her husband of 31 years, James Lowery; and twobrothers.

Survivors are her sons, Danny Parrette and Bobby Parrette, bothof Hazlehurst; her daughter, Patricia Newman, of Hazlehurst; herbrothers, Warner Brown, Arlander Brown and Mickey Brown, all ofMississippi; her sisters, Ester Miller and Mary Ann Scarbro, bothof Texas, and Carol Bishop, of Mississippi; her 12 grandchildren,35 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.