Marjorie Kuzmitz

Published 5:00 am Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Services for Marjorie Kuzmitz, of Brookhaven, are 11 a.m.Wednesday, June 13, at Brookhaven Funeral Home on Natchez Drivewith burial in Riverwood Memorial Park.

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

Mrs. Kuzmitz, 82, died June 10, 2007, at her residence. She wasborn in Covington, Ga., and was reared in Madison, Ga. She was bornon March 6, 1925, to Richard Grady Orr Sr. and Mattie Lou WomackOrr.

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She was a graduate of business college in Madison. She was ahomemaker. She was an active member of First Baptist Church inBrookhaven. She served on the Membership Committee and the Board ofDirectors of the Friends of the Mississippi State Hospital. Shealso belonged to the Peripatetics Club and the Brookhaven HighSchool Band Boosters. She volunteered with the church youth choirand Meals on Wheels. She was a member of the Chamber of Commerce.She was always willing to help out a friend.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, VictorKuzmitz; and her brother, Grady Orr Jr.

Survivors are her son, Bill Kuzmitz and wife Donna, ofMelbourne, Ark.; her daughters, Vicky Wallace and husband J.L., ofBrookhaven, and Anne Slight and husband Ian, of San Francisco,Calif.; her brothers, John Orr and wife Dodie, of Covington, and BoOrr and wife Betty, of Monroe, Ga.; her sisters-in-law, AnneKuzmitz, of Bluffton, Ind., and Gladys Orr, of Austin, Texas; hergrandchildren, Juliana Wallace, of Brookhaven, Kristina and WadeMason, of Sontag, Ken and Beth Downer, of Minneapolis, Minn., andDee Downer, of Norman, Okla.; her great-grandchildren, Angie,Lindsey, Rebecca and Ashley Downer, of Minneapolis; and a host ofnieces and nephews.

Thanks to Mary Ann Lewis, Marge’s “jewel,” special familyfriends and the Community Hospice of America Friends for the hoursof care and love given.

Memorials may be made to Community Hospice, 140 N. 5th St.,McComb, MS 39648; The Gideons International; The Mississippi StateHospital; or your favorite charity.