Lucille Bonney

Published 11:30 am Thursday, November 18, 2010

ARCOLA — Lucille Bonney died Friday, Nov. 12, 2010, at South Sunflower County Hospital in Indianola. She was 75.

Mrs. Bonney was employed at Washington County Head Start for more than 20 years. She also served as alderman for the town of Arcola for 20 years. She was a former board member of the Delta Health Center and a member of the Washington County Baptist Association.

She is survived by her husband, Henry Bonney Sr. of Arcola; three sons, Henry Bonney Jr. of Mound Bayou and Jack Bonney and Julian Bonney, both of Arcola; five daughters, Carrie Smith and Senthan Day Thomas, both of Greenville, Geri B. Davis of Las Vegas and RoeShirley Webb and Maxine Harris, both of Arcola; 14 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and 11 great-great-grandchildren.

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Services were at 10 a.m. today at Pilgrim Rest M.B. Church in Arcola with the Rev. Alan Blake officiating. Burial, directed by Walker Funeral Home of Rolling Fork, was at Sunrise Cemetery in Traylake.