Marie Easley Britt
Published 7:09 pm Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Funeral services for Mrs. Marie Easley Britt will be on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019, at New Prospect Baptist Church in Brookhaven, Mississippi, at 11 a.m. with burial to follow in the New Prospect Cemetery. Bro. Willie Welch will officiate the service with Brookhaven Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Visitation will be at Brookhaven Funeral Home on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, from 5 until 8 p.m. and at New Prospect Baptist Church on Thursday morning from 10 until 11 a.m.
Mrs. Britt, 87, of Brookhaven, Mississippi, passed from this life on Monday, Sept. 23, 2019, at King’s Daughters Medical Center with her loving family by her side. She was born on Nov. 12, 1931, to Levi Cade Easley and Elizabeth Smith Easley. She was a member of New Prospect Baptist Church, worked for many years as a seamstress at Kellwood Garment Factory, and enjoyed crocheting and reading her Bible. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend.
Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband of 36 years, Roy O. Britt; her four brothers and three sisters.
Survivors are her children, Margaret Keeton, Beverly Smith and Dennis Britt and wife Deborah; seven grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren; her sisters, Hettie Creech and Annie Tisdale; and a host of family and friends.
The family would like to extend a special thank you to the nurses and staff of King’s Daughters Medical Center.
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