Elnora Kelly

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Elnora Kelly died Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, at Shady Lawn Nursing Home. She was 89.

Mrs. Kelly was a homemaker and had worked at Head Start. She was a member of Mount Zion No. 4 M.B. Church, where she was a member of the Burial Society. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Willing Workers Club and Rainbow Birthday Club.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Nora Mae Erves; her father, Douglas Brown; and her mother, Lubertha Wiggins.

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Survivors include three sons, Walter Kelly and Caleb Kelly, both of Vicksburg, and James Willis Kelly of Chicago; one daughter, Johnnie Mae Kelly of Chicago; two brothers, Abe Wiggins and Perry Wiggins; two sisters, Martha Harris and Mary Givens, both of Vicksburg; and grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives.

W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.