The last Warren County, name-bearing member of the Nailer family went to be with the Lord on Feb. 18, 2012, with the passing of Lucy Barrow Nailer Lee. She peacefully slipped into Jesus’ arms at home surrounded by her family.

Lucy Barrow Nailer was born to Daniel Burnett Nailer and Georgia Kline Nailer on Jan. 31, 1917, in Warren County where she lived the remaining 95 years of her life.

She was a graduate of All Saints’ Episcopal College and MSCW. She worked as a teacher at Oak Ridge School followed by employment with the WPA, librarian with the Corps of Engineers, bookkeeper at All Saints’ and teacher in the Warren County schools until retirement in 1981.

Mrs. Lee was an active member of the Vicksburg Theatre Guild since the 1940s where she met her husband, Goode S. Lee, in 1952. After marriage in 1953, she had three children: Howard Nailer, Ann Bythewood and Elizabeth Barrow Lee.

Of her many roles at VTG her heart belonged to “Gold in the Hills,” in which she acted, directed and produced for nearly 40 years.

Mrs. Lee is survived by her daughters, Ann Lee Sloan (Russell) of Tupelo and Elizabeth Lee Thornton (Phil) of Vicksburg. She has three grandchildren, John Sloan, Lauren Sloan and Will Sloan, all of Tupelo, and three step-grandchildren, Anthony Thornton of Nashville, Matthew Thornton (Amanda) of Hattiesburg and Taylor Thornton of Clinton. She has two great-grandchildren, Addison Sloan and John Ayden Sloan.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Goode Stallworth Lee; and her son, Howard Nailer Lee.

Mrs. Lee was very proud of her heritage and ancestry in Warren County dating to the 1700s in the Barrow, Kline and Nailer families. Those families were pioneers of the state of Mississippi and some of the first families in Warren County.

Mrs. Lee’s family would like to extend a special thank you to the staff of Patient’s Choice Hospice and the former staff of Belmont Place for their loving care of Mrs. Lee.

Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 21, at Riles Funeral Home in Vicksburg with the Revs. Cary Stockett and Scott Reiber officiating. Burial will follow at Wintergreen Cemetery in Port Gibson

Visitation will be from 9:30 until the time of the service at the funeral home.

Pallbearers will be her grandsons, John Sloan, Will Sloan and Matthew Thornton; and Robert Featherston, James Pat McKinney and Chris Jolly. Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Walter Johnston, Dr. Mike Davis, Gordon Cotton, Anthony Thornton, Taylor Thornton and Jimmy Featherston.

Memorials may be made to Samaritan’s Purse and Vicksburg Theatre Guild.