Annie Frances Dickey Underwood

Published 9:38 pm Thursday, March 14, 2019

Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Frances Dickey Underwood will be 11 a.m. Saturday, March 16, 2019, at Riverwood Family with interment at Riverwood Memorial Park.

Visitation is from 5 until 8 p.m. Friday, March 15, 2019, at Riverwood.

Mrs. Underwood, 88, of Brookhaven, passed from this life on March 13, 2019, at Meadville Convalescent Home. She was born May 22, 1930, to the late Lemuel Edgar Dickey and Alma Elizabeth Hall Dickey, of Lucien, Mississippi. Mrs. Annie was a member of Woodman of the World and Central Baptist Church. She was a graduate of McCall Creek High School and began her career as an operator with the Bell Telephone System. Later, she worked as a bookkeeper in the sales industry, but in her free time, she enjoyed planting and keeping up her flowers. She was a loving and caring wife, mother, grandmother and friend and will be missed by all those who loved her.

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She is preceded in death by her husband, B.R. Underwood; parents; brothers, F.J. Dickey and Hugh E. “Bill” Dickey; and her sister, Elizabeth Dickey Watts.

Those who will cherish her memory are her son, Don Underwood and his wife, Sarah, of Brookhaven, Mississippi; daughter, Tammy U. Torrey and husband, Jimmy, of Meadville, Mississippi; and one grandchild, Stone Underwood, of Montclair, New Jersey.

Memorials may be made to the Brookhaven Animal Rescue League, PO Box 3477, Brookhaven, MS, 39603 or the Copiah Lincoln Community College Foundation, Underwood Family Scholarship, PO Box 649, Wesson, MS 39191.

To express your condolences to the family, you may visit riverwoodfamily.com or contact the family at Underwood/Torrey Family, P.O. Box 183 Meadville MS 39653.