Willard Blackwell Stanley
Published 6:00 pm Thursday, September 29, 2011
Funeral services for Willard BlackwellStanley, of Brookhaven, are 10 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 1, atRiverwood Family Funeral Service, with burial in EasthavenCemetery.
Visitation is Saturday from 9:30 until 10 a.m. at the funeralhome.
Mrs. Stanley, 98, died Sept. 26, 2011, at Silver Cross NursingHome. She was born in Louisiana on Sept. 10, 1913, to James Edgarand Margaret Lambert Blackwell.
She was a retired bookkeeper for Stanley Service Station and amember of First Baptist Church Brookhaven.
Preceding her in death were her parents; and her husband, WilliamHenry Stanley.
Survivors are her cousins, John Allen Blackwell, Rippley Waller,and Madelyn Graham; and a host of other relatives.
Memorials may be sent to First Baptist Church, 200 East MonticelloSt., Brookhaven, MS 39601; or to the Hospice Ministries: 397Brookhaven St., Brookhaven, MS 39601.
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