Eva Mae Terrell

Published 5:00 am Friday, July 8, 2005

Services for Eva Mae Terrell, of Brookhaven, are 2 p.m.Saturday, July 9 at St. James M.B. Church with burial in Mt. ZionChurch Cemetery in Bogue Chitto.

Visitation is Friday from 1-7 p.m., with family hour from 6-7p.m., at Williams Mortuary.

Mrs. Terrell, 82, died July 4, 2005, at King’s Daughters MedicalCenter. She was born on April 17, 1923, to Sim Nelson and EffieArnold.

She was a member of St. James M.B. Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband; two sons,Daniel Nelson and Bob Terrell; two sisters, Olivia Stovall andMargorie Sullivan; and a brother, Percy Nelson.

Survivors are her daughters, Bernice Collins, of Brookhaven, andShirley Henderson, of Jackson; her three brothers, Willie Nelsonand his wife, Louella, of Brookhaven, Carl Nelson and his wife,Wanda, of Brookhaven, and Tom Sheppard, of Memphis, Tenn.; heradopted son, Daniel Henderson and his wife, Sharonda, of Jackson;her adopted daughters, Phyllis Harris, of Brookhaven, and RoseNelson, of Jackson; many grandchildren andgreat-great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, otherrelatives and friends.

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