Margaret Neely Graves Watson

Published 5:00 am Monday, October 12, 2009

Services for Margaret Neely Graves Watson, of Wesson, are 10a.m. Monday, Oct. 12, at Decell Methodist Church in Wesson withburial at noon Monday in Lakewood Memorial Park in Jackson.Brookhaven Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Monday from 9 a.m. until the time of the serviceat the church.

Mrs. Watson, 83, died Oct. 9, 2009, at University of MississippiMedical Center in Jackson. She was born in Plain on Aug. 17, 1926,to Mack Neely and Hattie Mae Cooper.

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She was a homemaker. She was a member of Decell MethodistChurch.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husbands, WillieEverette Graves II and Lee Otis Watson; and her brother, WillieMaxwell Neely.

Survivors are her son, Willie Graves, of Ridgeland; herdaughters, Linda Phillips, of Nashville, Tenn., Marsha Prisock, ofJackson and Janet Graves, of West Monroe, La.; her grandchildren,Melinda Green, Marshall Graves, Jennifer Graves, Laurie Graves,Bill Bennett and Anna Bennett; and her great-grandchildren, RussellBennett and Kellie Bennett.