Obituaries for Sunday, February 3, 2008

Published 6:00 am Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Annie Ruth Quinn Bessonette

Services for Annie Ruth Quinn Bessonette, of Brookhaven, wereJan. 30 at Faith Pentecostal Church with burial in Union HallBaptist Church Cemetery.

Mrs. Bessonette, 81, died Jan. 27, 2008, at Brook Manor NursingHome. She was born on July 2, 1926, to Luther Quinn and AlbertaMason Quinn.

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She was loved dearly by all her family and friends and will bemissed by all who knew her.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, MalcolmBessonette; a granddaughter, Michelle Bessonette; and threesisters, Jo McGuffie, Margie Griffith, and Nell Krogstad.

Survivors are her sons, James Bessonette and wife Becky, MikeBessonette and wife Barbara, and Ricky Bessonette and wife Rioann,all of Brookhaven; 19 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; fivegreat-great-grandchildren; a sister, Bernice Quinn Wilson; abrother, Ret. Lt. Col. James Quinn; and many nieces andnephews.