"Our family serving your family for four generations"
|
Oliver Funeral Home of Winona, Inc.
Inez Harris Mills
(March 5, 1924 - November 25, 2011)
Inez Harris Mills, 87, died of kidney failure on Friday, November 25, at
Winona Manor in Winona.
Mrs. Mills was born on March 5, 1924, to Jessie Tilman Harris and Ethel
Palmertree Harris. She resided her entire life in Montgomery County near
Kilmichael. Mrs. Mills worked at a local factory for 12 years and was an
excellent homemaker and mother all of her life. She was a born-again
believer in Jesus Christ and a member of Community Baptist Church. She
passed from this life on Friday, November 25, into eternal life to be with her
Lord and Savior whom she loved and longed to be with for a long time.
Visitation will be from 5:00 until 9:00 p.m. on Monday, November 28, at Oliver
Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday,
November 29, at Oliver Funeral Home Chapel, with interment in Community
Baptist Church Cemetery on Highway 407 near Kilmichael. Bro. Jerry
McNeer and Bro. Billy Little, two of her beloved pastors, will offiiciate the
services.
Pallbearers will be Mrs. Mills' nephews, Clark Rogers, Ed Rogers, Seth
Rogers, Leon Rogers, and Dewayne Montgomery; and her grandson-in-law,
Ken Nance. Honorary pallbearers will be her beloved brother-in-law, Loyd
McMahon; beloved former pastor, Bro. Hugh Bland; her nephew, Robert
Rogers; Kelly Hall, Frank Rosamond, and Marion Bishop.
Mrs. Mills was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Roy "Slim"
Mills; son, Jessie Rogers; and two sisters, Betty Garner and Loretta
McMahon.
She is survived by one daughter, Linda Stafford and her husband, Jerry; one
son, Gale Rogers and his wife, Linda; one daughter-in-law, Shirley Rogers;
all of Kilmichael; one sister, Mable Welch of Vaiden; and one very special,
devoted, and loving friend and caregiver, Luther Yates of Kilmichael. She is
also survived by four grandchildren, Jeffrey Stafford and his wife, Debbie, of
Kilmichael, Libby King and her husband, Daniel, of Winona, Mechonne
Nance and her husband, Ken, of Huntsville, AL, and Katrice Tittle and her
husband, Todd, of Bentonville, AR; and ten great-grandchildren, Erika
Bennett and her husband, Coty, Rex Bingham, Mary Morgan Stafford,
Kendall King, Kaleb King, Skylar Nance, Kallen Nance, Molly Harper Nance,
Aubrey Tittle, and Sullivan Tittle.
Memorials in Mrs. Mills' memory may be made to Community Baptist
Church Cemetery, 1865 Highway 407, Kilmichael, MS 39747.