Hattie Lee Jones Truly

Published 12:00 am Saturday, June 12, 2010

Services for Hattie Lee Jones Truly will be at 11 a.m. today at City Auditorium with the Rev. Charlie Blackmore officiating. Burial, under the direction of Lakeview Memorial Funeral Home, will follow at Mount Zion M.B. Church Cemetery at Ballground. Visitation will be at the auditorium from 10 a.m. until the service.

Mrs. Truly died Friday, June 4, 2010, at Covenant Health & Rehab of Vicksburg. She was 98.

She was preceded in death by her father, James Jones; her mother, Eliza Lewis Jones; two sisters, Elva Jones and Celia Jones Maners; two children, Joseph Jones and Hattie Jones; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

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Survivors include two sons, John “Bear” Jones and James “Pat” Jones, both of Vicksburg; three daughters, Ernestine L. Carson, Gladys M. Warfield and Bobbie Harrington, all of Vicksburg; 25 grandchildren; 64 great-grandchildren; 23 great-great-grandchildren; and other relatives and friends, including Porcher Harvey and members of the Lewis, Gilliam, Williams, Regan, Davis, Miller, Anderson, Whitney, Smoothes and Meekey families.