Nellie Smith Applewhite Colvin

Published 6:00 am Monday, February 28, 2005

Services for Nellie Smith Applewhite Colvin, of Brookhaven, are2 p.m. Tuesday, March 1 at Friendship Baptist Church with burial inthe church cemetery.

Visitation is today from 5-9 p.m. at Brookhaven Funeral Home andTuesday from noon until 2 p.m. at the church.

Mrs. Colvin, 87, died Feb. 27, 2005, at Silver Cross NursingHome. She was born in Lincoln County on Aug. 28, 1917, to LeonardSmith and Frances Smith Smith.

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She was retired and a homemaker. She was a member of FriendshipBaptist Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her two husbands,Harold Applewhite and R.R. “Sam” Colvin; her son, C.H. ApplewhiteJr.; her daughter, Judith Ann Applewhite; and four brothers.

Survivors are her daughter, June Applewhite, of Brookhaven; hersister, Bessie Smith, of Brookhaven; her niece, Freda Ann Case; andher nephew, Ronald J. Smith.