Frances W. Querns

Published 9:35 am Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Funeral services for Frances W. Querns, of Brookhaven, are Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, at 10 a.m. at Brookhaven Funeral Home (Natchez Drive) with burial at Heucks Retreat Baptist Church Cemetery in Brookhaven. Bro. Leon Wallace will officiate.

Visitation will be today, Feb. 7, 2017, from 5 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

Ms. Querns, 78, died Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017, with her loved ones by her side. She was born March 21, 1938, to Frank G. Querns Sr. and Mamie Belle Herring Querns Hemphill. She enjoyed reading and was a loving sister, sister-in-law and aunt. She was a graduate of Brookhaven High School, Co-Lin Junior College and attended the University of Southern Mississippi. She then began training as a medical technologist at Baptist Hospital in Jackson. She continued to work at Baptist Hospital for 25 years before having to take an early retirement, due to medical reasons. Upon her retirement she returned to Brookhaven to live. She was a member of Southway Baptist Church in Brookhaven.

Preceding her in death were her parents; and infant brother, Kenneth E. Querns.

Survivors are her sister, Barbara Q. Breaux and husband Dallas, of Bogue Chitto; brother, Frank Querns Jr. and wife Debbie, of Brookhaven; nieces and nephews, Darren Breaux and his wife Joy, Duane Breaux, Brooke Breaux Patendis and her husband Timothy, Frank Querns III and his wife Stephanie, Kenneth Querns and his wife Melissa and Jason Querns; special cousin Sherry Foster; and 11 great-nieces and great-nephews.