| Willie Brackett
(-Bef 2004) |
Willie Brackett 1
Willie married Bessie Mae Spiller, daughter of Henry Spiller Sr. and Mary L. Shorter. (Bessie Mae Spiller was born on 25 Sep 1937 in Grace, Issaquena County, Mississippi, USA,4 died on 5 Dec 2004 in Greenville, Washington County, Mississippi, USA 3 4 and was buried on 12 Dec 2004 in Delat Memorial Garden, Greenville, Mississippi, USA.) |
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Obtiuary - Bessie Mae Spiller Brackett (Delta Democrat-Times - December 11, 2004). GREENVILLE - Funeral services for Bessie Mae Spiller Brackett, 67, of Greenville will be Sunday at 1 p.m. at Bethlehem MB Church, Greenville. She died Dec. 5, 2004, at Delta Regional Medical Center, Greenville. Burial will be in Delta Memorial Garden, Greenville, under the direction of Byas Funeral Home, Greenville.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Willie Brackett; her father, Henry Spiller Sr; a brother, Willie E. Spiller; and a devoted son, John F. Brackett.
She leaves to cherish her memory and celebrate her life: three daughters, Ruth (the Rev. Lewis) Thomas, Sandra (Zachary) Scott and Tammie Brackett all of Greenville; eight sons, Willie Brackett Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., and Henry (Betty) Brackett, J.B. (Arlease) Brackett, Willie Brackett, Ernest Brackett, Larry (Doretha) Brackett, Marshall Brackett and Markeist Brackett, all of Greenville; three godsons, John (Angela) Alexander, Anton Pennington and David Alexander all of Greenville; her loving mother, Mary L. Spiller of Greenville; one sister, Virginia Wheeler of Greenville; two brothers, Henry (Ruth) Spiller of Greenville and James (Bobbie) Spiller of Grand Prairie, Texas; seven aunts, Marie Shorter and Bessie People, both of Greenville, and Jerlean Hill, Martha Crystain, Louella Johnson, Ollie Ruth Hill and Dorothy Jenkins, all of Hermanville; three uncles, Jessie (Alice) Bruce and Gill (Bertha) Shorter of Greenville, and Matthew (Candice) Shorter of Hermanville; 27 grandchildren; 46 great-grandchildren; five grandchildren she raised, Beatrice Butler, James Brackett, Sharnell Hardison, Ernest Brackett and Bryan Hardison; three sisters-in-law, Nora Spiller of Greenville, Lilly Brown of Waukegan, Ill., and Louella Brackett of Tuscaloosa, Ala; one brother-in-law, Earnest Brackett of Greenville; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Visitation will be Saturday from 2 to 6 p.m. at Byas Funeral Home chapel, Greenville. Pastor Robert E. Young will officiate.
2 Obtiuary - Bessie Mae Spiller Brackett (Delta Democrat-Times - December 11, 2004), Preceded wife in death.
3 Obtiuary - Bessie Mae Spiller Brackett (Delta Democrat-Times - December 11, 2004).
4 Website - Ancestry Tree: Shorter-Spiller Family Tree.
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