Leo Terrell Sr.

Published 5:00 am Tuesday, May 3, 2005

Services for Leo Terrell Sr., of Brookhaven, are 4:30 p.m.Thursday, May 5 at Mt. Olive M.B. Church with burial in the churchcemetery.

Visitation is Wednesday from noon until 7 p.m. with family hourfrom 6-7 p.m. at Williams Mortuary.

Mr. Terrell, 80, died May 1, 2005, at Countrybrook LivingCenter. He was born in Brookhaven on Aug. 24, 1924, to JudgeTerrell and Geneva Putman Terrell.

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He was a retired logger. He was a member of Mt. Olive M.B.Church.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his wife, ClemetineTerrell; his sons, Robert Earl Terrell, Leo Terrell Jr., and CalvinTerrell; and his daughters, Sally Cooper, Shirley Terrell and MaryLee Terrell.

Survivors are his sons, Jessie Terrell and his wife, JoAnn, ofHazlehurst and Leroy Terrell, of Bogue Chitto; his daughters, MaryAnn Fells and her husband, Richard, and Celestine Terrell, all ofBrookhaven; his sisters, Aline Terrell, of Brookhaven and Mary L.Allen, of Bogue Chitto; his brothers, Richard Terrell, of Summit,J.T. Terrell and his wife, Honey, of Natchez and James Terrell andLeslie Terrell Sr. and his wife, Ada Lee, all of Bogue Chitto; aspecial friend, Willie Rice; 13 grandchildren; 11great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relativesand friends.