Mary Louise Landress

Published 10:09 am Friday, August 12, 2016

Funeral services for Mary Louise Landress, of Wesson, are Monday, Aug. 15, 2016, at 11a.m. at Sylvarena Baptist Church. Riverwood Family Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016, from 5 to 8 p.m. and resumes Monday, Aug. 15, 2016, from 10 a.m. until time of services at the church.

Mrs. Landress, 87, died Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, at Hardy Wilson Memorial Hospital in Hazlehurst. She was born Oct. 30, 1928, to John Baptiste Rappold and Amelia Dragon Rappold.

She was a member of Sylvarena Baptist Church. She was also a member of the 50+ Club and the SylvaBells Tria. Mrs. Landress was a Star Teacher numerous times throughout her 31 years of teaching. She was a sponsor of Y-Teens, the Wesson Puppeteers and Senior Class.

Preceding her in death was her husband, John Robert Landress; parents; brother, William Rappold; and sister, Amelia Mary Ellen Rappold.

Survivors are her sons, John Robert Landress Jr., and wife, Esta Perrot Landress and Keven Michael Landress and wife, Jennifer Vinson Landress; daughters, Daphne Lee Landress Johnson and husband, Charlie Earl and Denise Lynn Landress Swogetinsky and husband, Steve; 11 grandchildren, Christopher Earl Johnson, Tabitha Michelle Johnson Rager, Stephanie Lynn Swogetinsky Isbel, Steven Swogetinsky Jr., Mary Lynn Swogetinsky, Amelia Joy Swogetinsky, Leigh Carroll Landress Showman, John Eston Landress, Noah Andrew Landress, Mary Hanna Landress and Amelia Faye Landress; five great grandchildren, Marley Lynn Johnson, Matilda Lennon Johnson, Jackson Robert Showman, William Peyton Showman and Karma Elaine Isbel; and one great grandchild on the way, Andrew-John Earl Rager.Memorials can be made to Sylvarena Baptist Church.

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