Gary Lyn Coleman

Published 6:36 pm Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Services for Gary Lyn Coleman, of Hattiesburg, and formerly ofBrookhaven, are 1 p.m. Friday, April 16, at Sweet Pilgrim BaptistChurch in Hattiesburg, with burial in Highland Cemetery inHattiesburg. A & A Memorial Chapel in Hattiesburg is in chargeof arrangements.

Visitation is Friday from noon until the time of the service at thechurch.

Mr. Coleman, 56, died April 10, 2010, in Hattiesburg. He was bornin Brookhaven on May 22, 1953.

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He was a 1971 graduate of Brookhaven High School, and a graduate ofCopiah-Lincoln Community College, and William Carey College. He wasa retired financial officer and the former owner of Vision MortgageCompany. He was a member of Sweet Pilgrim Baptist Church.

Preceding him in death were his father, Roosevelt Coleman; hisbrother, Ronnie Coleman; and his sister, Wanda Coleman.

Survivors are his wife, Mary P. Coleman, of Hattiesburg; hismother, Helen Coleman, of Brookhaven; his sons, Corey Banks, ofDallas, Ga., Ryan McGee, of Loganville, Ga., and Stephen Smith, ofHattiesburg; his daughters, Lisa Ruffin and Tara McGee, both ofHattiesburg; his brothers, Victor Green, of Brookhaven, and DavidBracey, of Chicago, Ill.; his sisters, Gwendolyn Pierce, ofFayette, Dorothy Edwards, of Brookhaven, and Willie Renee Cochran,of Los Angeles, Calif.; his 12 grandchildren; and many nieces,nephews and other relatives.