Terah Thornhill Lewis Albritton
Published 6:00 am Thursday, January 8, 2009
Services for Terah Thornhill Lewis Albritton, of Brookhaven, are2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8, at Fair River Baptist Church with burialin the church cemetery.
Visitation is Wednesday from 5 until 8 p.m. at BrookhavenFuneral Home on Natchez Drive and Thursday from 9 a.m. until noonat the funeral home and from 1 until 2 p.m. at the church.
Mrs. Albritton, 91, died Jan. 5, 2009, at Brook Manor NursingHome. She was born in Lincoln County on March 15, 1917, to JonasThornhill and Abye Boyd Thornhill.
She was a retired garment factory worker as well as a homemaker.She was a member of Fair River Baptist Church.
Preceding her in death were her parents; her husbands; DolphusLewis and Thomas Woodrow Albritton; her brothers, Willie, Pink,Oscar, Claude, W.R., Ray, Luther and Emmett Thornhill; and hersisters, Estelle Wilson and Lillian Brister.
Survivors are her sons, Donald Lewis and wife, Dot, ofBrookhaven, Wesley Lewis and wife, Jeanetta, of Slidell, La., andJohn Paul Lewis and wife, Cheryl, of Deer Park, Texas; and a hostof grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren,countless friends and neighbors.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Fair RiverBaptist Church building fund or the church of your choice.