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2:02 am Friday, September 10, 2004

Obituaries for Friday, September 10, 2004

By Staff
Services for Pamela Edwards Harris will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at First Union Baptist Church. Latimer Metropolitan Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Harris, 54, of Meridian, died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004, in Meridian.
Survivors include her husband, Johnny Harris of Meridian; a sister, Peggy Harvey of Meridian and a brother, Dewey Edwards Jr. of Cleveland, Ohio.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Pauline Collins Edwards and Dewey Edwards Sr.
Visitation will be today from 3 p.m.-7 p.m. at the funeral home and family hour from 7 p.m.-8 p.m.
Services for Mary Alice Hall will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at New Prospect Savoy with the Rev. Thomas C. Howell Sr. officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Enterprise Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Ms. Hall, 48, of Meridian, died Sunday, Sept. 5, 2004, in her home.
Survivors include her mother Lee Girtha Hall of Meridian; brothers, Ben Hall Jr., Lee Arthur Hall, and David Eugene Hall, all of Meridian, Raymond Hall of Marion, Ohio, and Fredrick Hall of Davenport, Iowa; sisters, Annie Ruth Gulley of Mobile, Ala., Betty Jennings, Dora A. Williams and Gloria Ann King, all of Meridian.
Visitation will be today from 6 p.m.-7 p.m. at the funeral home.
Retired
QUITMAN Graveside services for Daniel Marston Bonney will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Enterprise Cemetery with the Revs. Grady Crowell and Gene Neal officiating. Wright's Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Bonney, of Quitman, died Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center. He lived in Quitman for more than 50 years. He was a graduate of Mississippi State University. He was the owner and operator of Standard Cotton Gin Co. and Quitman Bonded Warehouse until his retirement in 1990. He was a veteran of the US Navy and served in World War II on an L.S.T.
Survivors include his wife, Sammye; his daughters, Carolyn, Virginia and Dana and a son-in-law David; grandchildren, Catherine, McCaa and Mallie.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert and Ruby Bonney and his brothers, Robert T. and Evans Bonney.
Visitation will be Saturday from 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. at the family home.
QUITMAN Memorial services for Irene Dorn Sweeney will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. at Buckatunna Baptist Church. Wright's Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Sweeney, died Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2004, at Wayne General Hospital in Waynesboro.
Survivors include her son, Darry D. Eggleston and his wife, Peggy, of Riverview, Fla.; grandsons, Paul Church and his wife, Susan, of Laurel and Keith Church and his wife, Rhonda, of Lubbock, Texas and a step-son, Earl M. Sweeney and his wife, Lynn, of Cheyenne, Wyo.
Arrangements were incomplete at Berry and Gardner Funeral Home for Charles Clark, of Meridian, who died Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004, at Guardian Angel Hospice.

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