Nicey Wilks Anton

Published 8:00 pm Thursday, May 24, 2012

Funeral services for Nicey Wilks Anton, of Brookhaven, are 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 26, at Grace Community Church, with burial in Hooker Cemetery in Summit. Williams Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

     Visitation is Friday from 1 until 7 p.m. at the funeral home, with family hour from 6 until 7.

     Mrs. Anton, 92, died May 16, 2012, at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb. She was born in Prentiss on Jan. 23, 1920, to Walter and Ollie Hall Wilks.

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     She was retired.

     Preceding her in death were her parents; husband, Sam Anton; sons, Sammie Anton and Walter Anton; brother, Dan Wilks; sister, Necey Wilks; grandson, Darrell Anton; stepson, Charles Freddie Quinn; and daughters, Grace Johnson and Patience Wineberry.

     Survivors are his son, Roosevelt Johnson, of Osyka; daughters, Lizzie Anton, of Ruth, and Ollie Bulter and husband, Tommy, of Ruth; stepdaughter, Maggie Jenkins, of Summit; 17 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren; 9 great-great-grandchildren; special cousin, Jessie Mae Rhodes; and sister-in-law, Georgia Rodgers, of Gulfport.