Willie Mae Diggs Brown

Published 6:00 am Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Services for Willie Mae Diggs Brown, of Brookhaven, will be heldat 11 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28, at St. James Missionary BaptistChurch in Brookhaven with burial in Carver Heights Cemetery. R.E.Tyler Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Wednesday from noon until 5 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mrs. Brown, 84, died Feb. 23, 2008, at her residence. She wasborn in Lincoln County on Nov. 3, 1923, to Johnnie Diggs Sr. andWillie Ann Kennedy Diggs.

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She was a graduate of Alexander High School. She was a retirednurses aide and an active member of St. James M.B. Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, ErnestBrown; and her brother, Johnnie Diggs Jr.

She is survived by her brother, James Diggs, of Brookhaven.