James Mitchell Britt

Published 1:35 pm Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Funeral services for James Mitchell Britt are Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015, at 3 p.m. at Brookhaven Funeral Home (Natchez Drive) with burial in Pleasant Ridge Pentecostal Church Cemetery in Wesson. Bro. Steven Williams will be officiating the services.  Brookhaven Funeral Home (Natchez Drive) is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation will be at Brookhaven Funeral Home (Natchez Drive) on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015, from 1 p.m. until the time of services.

Mr. Britt, 60, died on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015, in Hazlehurst. He was born Jan. 4, 1955, in Brookhaven to Odis Claiborne Britt and Lola Robbins Britt Hensarling.

He was a former oil field worker. He was of the Pentecostal faith. He enjoyed motor-cycle riding, hunting and sports. He was a loving father and grandfather.

He was preceded in death by his father; his step-father, Jack Hensarling; his nephew, Clay Hart; his brother-in-law, Keith Hart; and his grandparents, Otis and Effie Britt and Sue Belle Childs and James Lee Robbins.

Survivors are his mother; his sisters, Connie Britt Taylor and her husband, Michael, of Memphis, Tennessee, Sherry Jones and her husband, Howard, of Brookhaven, Faye Britt Hart of Wesson, and Gwen Britt Harding and her husband, Brian, of Biloxi; his daughters, Ashley B. Havard and her husband, John Wayne, of Alexandria, Louisiana and Chelsey Britt King and her husband, Adam, of Brookhaven; his grandchildren, Sylis Havard, Miley Havard, Nathan Havard, Layla Marie Smith and Layton Clay King; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

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