Nellie Smith Applewhite Colvin
Published 6:00 am Monday, February 28, 2005
Services for Nellie Smith Applewhite Colvin, of Brookhaven, are2 p.m. Tuesday, March 1 at Friendship Baptist Church with burial inthe church cemetery.
Visitation is today from 5-9 p.m. at Brookhaven Funeral Home andTuesday from noon until 2 p.m. at the church.
Mrs. Colvin, 87, died Feb. 27, 2005, at Silver Cross NursingHome. She was born in Lincoln County on Aug. 28, 1917, to LeonardSmith and Frances Smith Smith.
She was retired and a homemaker. She was a member of FriendshipBaptist Church.
Preceding her in death were her parents; her two husbands,Harold Applewhite and R.R. “Sam” Colvin; her son, C.H. ApplewhiteJr.; her daughter, Judith Ann Applewhite; and four brothers.
Survivors are her daughter, June Applewhite, of Brookhaven; hersister, Bessie Smith, of Brookhaven; her niece, Freda Ann Case; andher nephew, Ronald J. Smith.