Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
2:40 pm Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Ollie Mae Mitchell

Ollie Mae Mitchell

January 26, 2012

Ollie Mae Mitchell, 85, Russellville, passed away Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, at Russellville Hospital.

Funeral services were Monday, Jan. 30, 2012, at Spry Memorial Chapel with Bro. Jim Lumpkin officiating. The burial was in Franklin Memory Gardens.

She was preceded in death by her husband, William Lester Mitchell; parents, Percy “Doc” Bolton, Ester Rosella Taylor Bolton; siblings, Owen Bolton, Onice Bolton, Katherine Martie, Helen Mitchell, Herschel Bolton and Emmer Ridley.

She is survived by her children, Ruth Mitchell, Shirley Jones, Polly Wachel, Robert Rogers, Martha Anderson, Howard Rogers, Donna Cameron, Joey Mitchell; 26 grandchildren; several great and great-great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces and nephews.

The pallbearers were William Mitchell, Willard Mitchell, Joseph Keelon, Brett Keelon, Wayne Mann and Kyle Mitchell.

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