Geneva ‘Chocolate’ Nelson

Published 6:00 am Thursday, February 26, 2009

Services for Geneva “Chocolate” Nelson, of Brookhaven, are 2p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, at New Jerusalem Holiness Ministry inBrookhaven with burial in Hillcrest Cemetery.

Visitation is Friday from 1 until 6 p.m. at WilliamsMortuary.

Miss Nelson, 35, died Feb. 28, 2009, at Mississippi BaptistMedical Center in Jackson. She was born in Lincoln County on Dec.1, 1973, to Lucius Johnson and Mary L. Nelson.

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She was a 1992 graduate of Eva H. Harris High School. She wasdisabled.

Preceding her in death were her father; and a sister, QueenEster Nelson.

Survivors are her mother, Mary L. Nelson, of Brookhaven; a son,Jarvis Nelson, of Brookhaven; her sisters, Mary Williams andhusband, Virgil, Lucille Mathis, Betty Nelson, Angela Richardsonand husband, Billy, Sandra McDaniel and husband, Matthew, FeliciaSmith and husband, Delvechio, all of Brookhaven; a special godniece, Okoya Barlow, of Brookhaven; and a host of aunts, uncles,nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and friends.