Frances Annetta Paulk Reed
Published 8:06 pm Friday, August 31, 2012
Funeral services for Frances Annetta Paulk Reed, of Brookhaven, are 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 1, at Bradford O’Keefe Funeral Home in Gulfport, with burial in Floral Hill Memorial Gardens.
Visitation is Saturday from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the funeral home.
Mrs. Reed, 86, died Aug. 28, 2012, at Silver Cross Home. She was born in McComb on April 2, 1926, to Charles Augustus Paulk Sr. and Frances Annetta Little Paulk.
She was a graduate of Summit High School and was married to James William Reed Jr., Feb. 16, 1946. Mrs. Reed retired as a mortgage loan officer from Hancock Bank in Gulfport after 33 years. She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Bayou View.
Preceding her in death were her parents; husband; daughter, Marsha Reed Rutledge, of Long Beach; and brother, Thompson Alexander “Tommy” Paulk, of Summit.
Survivors are her children, James William Reed Jr. and wife, Rita, of Hattiesburg, Linda Frances Reed Hankins and husband, Gary, of Saucier, and Thomas Charles Reed and wife, Karen, of San Antonio; brothers, Charles A. Paulk Jr. and wife, Cynthia, of Summit, and James William Paulk and wife, Suzanne, of Diamondhead; sister, Mary Lu Paulk Redd, of Brookhaven; sister-in-law, Marilyn Jo Paulk, of Smithdale; grandchildren, Craig Walker and Shane Rutledge, of Long Beach, Jill Reed Arnold, of Lagrange, Ga., Matthew Reed and wife, Sarah, of Fort Worth, Texas, Christina Annette Yoder, of Waynesville, Mo., Jason William Triplett and wife, Monica, of Biloxi, Jennifer Lynn Bosch and husband, Micah, of Virginia Beach, Va., and Joshua Reed and Deborah Reed, of San Antonio; and great-grandchildren, Jada Smith, Dallas Arnold and Dakota Arnold, of Lagrange, Ga., Anaiah Reed, of Fort Worth, Texas, Courtney Lynn Yoder, Kaitlyn Abigail Yoder and Kimberly Elise Yoder, of Waynesville, Mo., Kylie Renee Triplett and Emma Rose Triplett, of Biloxi, and David Matthew Bosch, of Virginia Beach, Va.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to King’s Daughters Foundation, P.O. Box 948, Brookhaven, MS 39602, or the charitable organization of one’s choice.
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