Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
4:29 pm Monday, November 23, 2015

Sharon E. Keeton

Sharon E. Keeton, age 62, passed away Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 at her residence. She was born in Alabama to Burton Nichols and Inez Watson Nichols and was a factory worker for 15 years.

Services were held Thursday, Nov. 19, at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel, Red Bay, with Bro. Rick Murrell officiating. Burial was in Butler Cemetery, Golden, Miss.

Survivors are two children: Jason Keeton and wife, Kristy Amory, Miss. and Scotty Keeton, Vina; her mother, Inez Nichols, Kenosha, Wis.; one sister, Carol Nichols, Mt. Pleasant, Wis. and one brother, Walton Nichols and wife, Mary Vina.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Leburn Keeton, her father and two brothers: Eugene Nichols and Jerry Nichols.

Pallbearers were friends and family, Jeremy West, Derek Nelson, Damion Keeton, Michael Watson, Gary Carpenter and Homer Lee Watson.

Visitation was Nov. 18, at Deaton Funeral Home, Red Bay.

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