Leola Overton Poates

Visitation will be held on Friday, November 26 from 5 to 7 p.m. with facial coverings worn while inside the building.

Leola Overton Poates passed away on Wednesday, November 16 in the Vicksburg Convalescent Home following a lengthy illness. She was 94. She was a homemaker

She was predeceased by her father, Henry Overton, and mother, Ethel Kilcrease; her sons Larry Joe Overton and Allen Don Overton; and a grandson Larry Woods.

She is survived by her daughter, Terrizena Woods of Vicksburg; her grandchildren Stephanie Woods-Knox of Vicksburg, Patrick Caples, Allen Watson; her brothers Henry (Tina) Overton of South Bend, IN, Joe Overton of Little Rock, AR; and 3 sisters Helen Dismuke, of West Helena, AR, and Doris Bland of Memphis, TN.