Larry Benard

Published 9:41 am Thursday, January 5, 2017

Funeral services for Larry Benard will be Saturday, Jan. 7, in the chapel of W. H. Jefferson Funeral Home at 1 p.m. with the Rev. Joseph Briscoe officiating. Interment will follow in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery. 

Mr. Benard passed away Jan. 1, at Merit Health River Region Medical Center following a lengthy illness. He was 57.

He had worked as a concrete finisher and was of the Baptist faith.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Willard Elmore and Mattile Benard, and his sister, Mattile Gardner.

He is survived by his two daughters, Rae Dawn Evans of Vicksburg and Lakeishaer Ross of Memphis, Tenn.; his three brothers, Ronald Turner, Donald Turner and Charles White, all of Vicksburg; and his two sisters, Konola Conley and Vera Benard, both of Vicksburg; his close friend, Carolyn Buck of Vicksburg; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and others.