Nelma Jane McGehee
retired secretary
CLINTON - Nelma Jane McGehee, 75, of 104 McRaven St., a retired secretary, died of heart failure Monday at St. Dominic/Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Services are at 4 p.m. today at Lakewood Chapel with burial in Lakewood Memorial Park. Lakewood Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Mrs. McGehee, a Belmont native, was a secretary in the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol's Safety Responsibility Bureau before her retirement. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Clinton and its Joymakers Choir.
Survivors include: sons William Jeff Bell of Duluth, Ga., and John Ellis Bell of Clinton; brothers, Miles Clay Perry of Booneville and Paul Perry of Anacortes, Wash.; sisters, Christine Byrd of Clinton and Edna Barton of Beaufort, S.C.; and four grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Joymakers Choir at First Baptist Church of Clinton.
Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi)
13 Mar 1991, Wed
Page 14
Nelma Jane Bell, born Perry, was the daughter of John Miles Perry (1884-1930) and Lucy Clay (1890-1927), and was born in Tishomingo, MS. She married William Bennett Bell on July 3, 1935 and with him had two children, William Jefferson "Jeff" Bell (1936-1999), and John Ellis "Buddy" Bell (1938-2004). They divorced on December 21, 1955 and she later married Gaines "Mac" McGehee. She lived for some time with him in a very old house in Vicksburg which was built in the 1850s near to the old courthouse. Later she lived next to her son Buddy for many years on McRaven Street in Jackson, MS. She would cook breakfast for her grandkids, their friends, and the neighborhood children and always had a spare dime or time for the unfortunate. A loving grandmother to all of her grandchildren, dedicated mother, and kind hearted woman, she died in 1991 at the age of seventy five years.
retired secretary
CLINTON - Nelma Jane McGehee, 75, of 104 McRaven St., a retired secretary, died of heart failure Monday at St. Dominic/Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Services are at 4 p.m. today at Lakewood Chapel with burial in Lakewood Memorial Park. Lakewood Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Mrs. McGehee, a Belmont native, was a secretary in the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol's Safety Responsibility Bureau before her retirement. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Clinton and its Joymakers Choir.
Survivors include: sons William Jeff Bell of Duluth, Ga., and John Ellis Bell of Clinton; brothers, Miles Clay Perry of Booneville and Paul Perry of Anacortes, Wash.; sisters, Christine Byrd of Clinton and Edna Barton of Beaufort, S.C.; and four grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Joymakers Choir at First Baptist Church of Clinton.
Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi)
13 Mar 1991, Wed
Page 14
Nelma Jane Bell, born Perry, was the daughter of John Miles Perry (1884-1930) and Lucy Clay (1890-1927), and was born in Tishomingo, MS. She married William Bennett Bell on July 3, 1935 and with him had two children, William Jefferson "Jeff" Bell (1936-1999), and John Ellis "Buddy" Bell (1938-2004). They divorced on December 21, 1955 and she later married Gaines "Mac" McGehee. She lived for some time with him in a very old house in Vicksburg which was built in the 1850s near to the old courthouse. Later she lived next to her son Buddy for many years on McRaven Street in Jackson, MS. She would cook breakfast for her grandkids, their friends, and the neighborhood children and always had a spare dime or time for the unfortunate. A loving grandmother to all of her grandchildren, dedicated mother, and kind hearted woman, she died in 1991 at the age of seventy five years.
Nelma Jane McGehee
retired secretary
CLINTON - Nelma Jane McGehee, 75, of 104 McRaven St., a retired secretary, died of heart failure Monday at St. Dominic/Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Services are at 4 p.m. today at Lakewood Chapel with burial in Lakewood Memorial Park. Lakewood Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Mrs. McGehee, a Belmont native, was a secretary in the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol's Safety Responsibility Bureau before her retirement. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Clinton and its Joymakers Choir.
Survivors include: sons William Jeff Bell of Duluth, Ga., and John Ellis Bell of Clinton; brothers, Miles Clay Perry of Booneville and Paul Perry of Anacortes, Wash.; sisters, Christine Byrd of Clinton and Edna Barton of Beaufort, S.C.; and four grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Joymakers Choir at First Baptist Church of Clinton.
Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi)
13 Mar 1991, Wed
Page 14
Nelma Jane Bell, born Perry, was the daughter of John Miles Perry (1884-1930) and Lucy Clay (1890-1927), and was born in Tishomingo, MS. She married William Bennett Bell on July 3, 1935 and with him had two children, William Jefferson "Jeff" Bell (1936-1999), and John Ellis "Buddy" Bell (1938-2004). They divorced on December 21, 1955 and she later married Gaines "Mac" McGehee. She lived for some time with him in a very old house in Vicksburg which was built in the 1850s near to the old courthouse. Later she lived next to her son Buddy for many years on McRaven Street in Jackson, MS. She would cook breakfast for her grandkids, their friends, and the neighborhood children and always had a spare dime or time for the unfortunate. A loving grandmother to all of her grandchildren, dedicated mother, and kind hearted woman, she died in 1991 at the age of seventy five years.
retired secretary
CLINTON - Nelma Jane McGehee, 75, of 104 McRaven St., a retired secretary, died of heart failure Monday at St. Dominic/Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Services are at 4 p.m. today at Lakewood Chapel with burial in Lakewood Memorial Park. Lakewood Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Mrs. McGehee, a Belmont native, was a secretary in the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol's Safety Responsibility Bureau before her retirement. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Clinton and its Joymakers Choir.
Survivors include: sons William Jeff Bell of Duluth, Ga., and John Ellis Bell of Clinton; brothers, Miles Clay Perry of Booneville and Paul Perry of Anacortes, Wash.; sisters, Christine Byrd of Clinton and Edna Barton of Beaufort, S.C.; and four grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Joymakers Choir at First Baptist Church of Clinton.
Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi)
13 Mar 1991, Wed
Page 14
Nelma Jane Bell, born Perry, was the daughter of John Miles Perry (1884-1930) and Lucy Clay (1890-1927), and was born in Tishomingo, MS. She married William Bennett Bell on July 3, 1935 and with him had two children, William Jefferson "Jeff" Bell (1936-1999), and John Ellis "Buddy" Bell (1938-2004). They divorced on December 21, 1955 and she later married Gaines "Mac" McGehee. She lived for some time with him in a very old house in Vicksburg which was built in the 1850s near to the old courthouse. Later she lived next to her son Buddy for many years on McRaven Street in Jackson, MS. She would cook breakfast for her grandkids, their friends, and the neighborhood children and always had a spare dime or time for the unfortunate. A loving grandmother to all of her grandchildren, dedicated mother, and kind hearted woman, she died in 1991 at the age of seventy five years.
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Nelma B. ___________________Gaines A.
1916 - 1991 ____Together _____1910 - 1984
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