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3:03 pm Sunday, June 29, 2003

Obituaries for Sunday, June 29, 2003

By Staff
Retired telephone operator
Graveside services for Brenda Kay Williams Westbrook will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Sunset Memorial Cemetery with the Rev. Jimmy Johnson officiating. Berry &Gardner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Westbrook, 51, of Meridian, died Friday, June 27, 2003, at her home. She was a retired telephone operator for BellSouth.
Survivors include a son, Nicholas Westbrook; and her mother, Katie Williams, both of Meridian; a brother, Teddy Williams and his wife, Anita, of Hattiesburg; and two nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband; and her father.
Visitation will be Monday from 3 p.m.-5 p.m. at the funeral home.
Retired truck driver
Services for Leroy Jones will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Berry &Gardner Funeral Home. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Mr. Jones, 64, of Meridian, died Friday, June 27, 2003, at Riley Hospital. He was a retired truck driver for Roadway.
Survivors include his wife, Dorothy Rackley Jones of Meridian; three daughters, Sandra Faye Jennings of San Jose, Calif., and Serita Holton and Sherry Jones, both of Meridian; five sons, LeWayne Jones, Brian K. Jones and David Jones, all of San Jose, and Kenneth Jones and Jeffrey Jones, both of Meridian; two sisters, Charlie Mae Jones and Ethel Lemons, both of Champaign, Ill.; three brothers, Frank Jones of Chicago, Johnny Jones of Arizona and Raleigh Jones of Meridian; 23 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Visitation will be Tuesday from 6 p.m.-7 p.m. at the funeral home.
Arrangements were incomplete at Berry &Gardner Funeral Home for Susie L. Burton, 66, of Meridian, who died Saturday, June 28, 2003, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.

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