Services for Marjorie Gayle Walker Mercier, of McComb, are 3p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, at Hartman-Sharkey Funeral Home Chapel inMcComb with burial in Hollywood Cemetery. The Rev. Ted Bowlin andthe Rev. Dr. David Millican will officiate.

Visitation is Tuesday from 5 until 8 p.m. and Wednesday from 1until 3 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Mercier, 69, died Nov. 2, 2009. She was born in Jackson onJuly 28, 1940, to Paul S. and Marjorie Schroeder Walker.

She was a retired hairdresser having worked for Gentry TownHouse, Deville Beauty Salon and Milady’s Beauty Salon aftergraduating from Fondren College of Cosmetology in Jackson. Sheshared her time and talents with many of her friends and neighborsof South McComb and was always proud of her ongoing relationshipwith girlfriends of her youth, the South McComb Sisters. Mrs.Mercier was a nurturer, always trying to help others. She oftencooked and delivered food to shut-ins and was a mother who was veryprotective of her family. She was a member of South McComb BaptistChurch.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Don W.Mercier; an infant son, Timothy Paul Mercier; a sister, Emily W.Brewer McElveen; and a grandson, Clay Bozeman.

Survivors are a daughter, Marjorie Bozeman, of McComb; her sons,Donnie Mercier, Jason Mercier and Kevin Mercier and wife, Barbara,all of McComb; a brother, Paul Walker and wife, Barbara, of McComb;her brothers-in-law, Thomas C. Mercier, of McComb, and EverettMcElveen, of Tylertown; her four grandchildren, Cole Bozeman,stationed in Iraq, Eddie Bozeman, of Magnolia, Shelley Bozeman, ofD’Iberville, and Gabriel Mercier and wife, Ginny, of Laurel; hertwo great-grandchildren, Breanna Bozeman, of D’Iberville, and KaneBozeman, of Magnolia; her two special aunts, Elaine Laird, of FortWalton Beach, Fla., and Jimmye Waker, of Jackson; and numerousnieces and nephews.

Pallbearers are Cannon Ward, Gabriel Mercier, Sha Walker, BlakeBrewer, Mark Parrett and Tommy Laird. Honorary pallbearers are RayScott, Sammy Bozeman, Jimmy Long and Frank Cooley.

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