Edith May Fife

Published 12:00 am Monday, January 2, 2012

Edith May Fife of Port Gibson died Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011, at River Region Medical Center. She was 95.

Mrs. Fife was born in 1916 in Brookhaven to John Madison May and Maggie Seals. She was a retired beautician and was of the Baptist faith.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Wiliam J. “Joe” Fife Jr.

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Survivors include a son, William J. “Joe” Fife III of Port Gibson; a daughter, Maggie Fife of Pattison; three grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Graveside services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Fife Family Cemetery in Claiborne County. Visitation is from 1 to 3 p.m. today at Harrigill Funeral Home in Brookhaven.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Fife Family Cemetery Fund, attn. Mary Baker, 3180 Pattison and Tillman Road, Port Gibson, MS 39150.