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3:03 pm Sunday, June 29, 2003

Obituaries for Sunday, June 29, 2003

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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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