Margarette B. Mark
Published 6:00 am Thursday, January 8, 2009
Services for Margarette B. Mark, of Brookhaven, are 11 a.m.Saturday, Jan. 10, at Kynette Pilgrim United Methodist Church inBrookhaven with burial in Hillcrest Cemetery.
Visitation is Friday from noon until 6 p.m. at R.E. TylerFuneral Home with family present from 6 until 7 p.m.
Mrs. Mark, 79, died Dec. 31, 2008, at her residence. She wasborn in Brookhaven on Nov. 20, 1929, to Cammie Butler and Josie MayGreen.
She was an Alexander High School graduate, an Alcorn A&MUniversity graduate, and a graduate of Xavier University in NewOrleans, La. Mrs. Mark was a retired assistant principal in theOrleans Parish School System in New Orleans.
Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Dr. JesseJ. Mark Jr., Ph.D.; and her sisters, Rosie M. Smith Houston andJosie Mae Lewis.
Survivors are a brother, James Smith, of Glynwood, Ill.; and hersisters, Marie Patton and Elise Craft, both of Brookhaven.