Graveside services for Emma Lee Delaney will be Thursday, May 26, 2016, at 11 a.m. in Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery in Hazlehurst. Stringer Family Funeral Services in Hazlehurst is in charge of arrangements. 

Mrs. Delaney died Monday, May 23, 2016, at Copiah Living Center. She was born in Hazlehurst to Will and Lou Ashley McKinzie. She is formerly of Brookhaven. Following her husband’s death in 1989, she moved to Canton to be near her daughter and later moved to Crystal Springs in 2011. Mrs. Delaney was a member of First Baptist Church Canton.

Survivors are her son, Jerald Delaney of Hazlehurst; daughter, Emma Mae Smith of Canton; sister, Luevinia Windom of Hazlehurst; three grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.