Mildred Rae Smith Chandler

Published 9:52 am Friday, June 26, 2015

Funeral services for Mildred Rae Smith Chandler were Saturday, June 27, 2015, at 10 a.m. at Harrigill Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery. Harrigill Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Visitation was Friday, June 26, 2015, from 5 until 9 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Chandler, 82, died on Wednesday, June 24, 2015, at King’s Daughters Medical Center. She was born Aug. 1, 1932 in Brookhaven to Ernest Smith and Edgenora Harmon.

She was a waitress at Cathy’s Restaurant, a member of Macedonia Baptist Church and was a Chihuahua dog breeder.

Preceding her in death were her parents; first husband, Harvey Durr; second husband, Robert Lee Chandler; two brothers, James Hildrey Smith and Thomas W. Smith; son, Jackie Wayne Durr; and one grandchild, Robert Harvey Durr.

Survivors are her two sons, James H. Durr and wife, Suzette, of Brookhaven and Robert Glenn Chandler; daughter, Darlene Smith of Brookhaven; sister, Norma Jean McRae of Hendersonville, Tennessee; nine grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.