Burnita Smith Thetford

Published 5:00 am Monday, July 23, 2007

Services for Burnita Smith Thetford, of Bogue Chitto, are 10a.m. Monday, July 23, at Harrigill Funeral Home Chapel with burialin Lakewood Memorial Park in Clinton at 3 p.m.

Visitation is Sunday from 5 until 8 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mrs. Thetford, 84, died July 20, 2007, at her residence. She wasborn on July 2, 1923, to Ernest Jasper West and Mary EttaBailess.

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She was a retired accountant with Mississippi School Supply. Shewas a member of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church.

Preceding her in death was her first husband, Clyde B. Smith;her infant son, Clyde West Smith; her parents; two sisters,Ernestine W. Gilliam and Velma W. Bankston; and three brothers,Johnnie Claud West, Carden West and Clyde Correll West.

Survivors are her spouse, Wendell Thetford, of Bogue Chitto; herstepson, Wayne Thetford; her stepdaughter, Debbie Foster; herbrother, Marion Delma West, of Hazlehurst; and 14 nieces andnephews.