Joseph Clinton Boswell

Published 9:49 pm Thursday, November 16, 2017

Funeral services for Joseph Clinton Boswell, of Brookhaven, are today, Nov. 17, 2017, at 10 a.m. at Brookhaven Funeral Home (Natchez Drive) with burial at New Prospect Baptist Church Cemetery in Brookhaven. Bro. Jerry Sullivan will officiate the services.

Visitation was held Thursday, November 16, 2017, from 5 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home

Mr. Boswell, 79, died Monday, Nov. 13, 2017, at his residence in Brookhaven. He was born Nov. 13, 1938, in Lawrence County, to Jan and Bessie Moak Boswell. He enjoyed gardening, fishing and raising chickens. He was a loving, caring, and dependable father, grandfather, great-grandfather and friend.

Preceding him in death were his parents; granddaughter, Brandy Cole; sisters, Betty Love, Grace Prather and Mary Rushing; and brother, James Boswell.

Survivors are his six children, Billy Boswell and wife Sandy, Tina Cole and fiancé Rickey McClelland, Jesse Boswell and wife Connie, Jeannie Knight and husband Eddie, Melinda Cessna and husband Dale, and Cindy Hicks; grandson, Ricky “Bud” Potts and wife Nicole; 14 grandchildren; 16 great- grandchildren; sisters, Rachel Hall and husband James, and Beverly Wilkinson; and a host of family and friends.

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