Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
10:43 am Monday, June 27, 2016

Lexie George Graham

Lexie George Graham, 81, passed away June 26 at his residence. He was born in Belmont, Ms. to Fred Graham and Mary Vivian Johnson Graham. He was a truck driver for Sunshine Mills for fifty years and a member of Palestine Church of God. His passion was peddling produce.

 

Services will be June 29 at 10 a.m. at Trinity Assembly of God, Red Bay, with Bro. David Kelley, Bro. Emmanuel Jackson and Bro. Wayne Bumgart. Burial will be in Mt. Zion Cemetery, Golden, Ms.

 

Survivors are four children – George A. Graham and wife Tiffni Blanco, Tx., Hershel D. Graham, Gabriel G. Graham and wife Twila and Gary W. Graham and wife Lisa, all of Red Bay; one grandson – Elijah Graham and wife Amanda Red Bay; one great-granddaughter – Neveah Graham; three sisters- Virginia Graham and husband Charles Ray, Faye Young and Helen Hall; two brothers – Fred Graham, Jr. and Johnny C. Graham and the mother of his children – Christine Graham.

 

He was preceded in death by two brothers, Charles Waymon Graham and Burl Graham and two sisters, Mary Jo Holley and Wanda Pendegraph.

 

Visitation will be June 28 6-9 p.m. at Trinity Assembly of God, Red Bay and until service time on Wednesday.

The family wants to thank his caregivers, Angie, Donna, Carolyn, Gentiva Hospice and Red Bay Hospital.

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