Clara Kelly
Published 8:00 pm Thursday, April 5, 2012
Funeral services for Clara Kelly, of Brookhaven, are 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 7, at Grateful Ministries International in Brookhaven, with burial in Hillcrest Cemetery. The Apostle Terrell Brinson will officiate. R.E. Tyler Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Visitation is Friday from noon until 7 p.m. at the funeral home, with the family present from 6 until 7.
Mrs. Kelly, 86, died April 1, 2012, at her home. She was born in Tangipahoa, La. on Feb. 2, 1926, to Albert and Mary Dawson Topps.
Preceding her in death were her parents; sons, Elighah Kelly Jr. and Joe Louis Kelly; and sister, Idella Johnson.
Survivors are her husband, Elighah Kelly Sr.; sons, Anderson Kelly Sr., Tommy Lee Kelly, Jerry Lee Kelly, Hollis J. Kelly and Howard Kelly, all of Brookhaven, Robert Kelly, of McComb, Rickey Kelly, of Springfield, Mass., and Roddy L. Kelly, of New Orleans; daughters, Larry Daniels, Linda Kelly Bryant and Mary Morgan, all of Brookhaven; sister, Margaret Beacham, of Austin, Texas; and a host of grandchildren, great-grandchildren and other relatives and friends.