Tupelo, Lee Co., MS- Thur., 2 Dec. 2004
Houston- Mary Lou Welch Alford, 85, died Wed., Dec. 1, 2004, at the Trace Regional Hospital in Houston. A native of Chickasaw County, she was born Mar. 16, 1919, to Gradion Smith Welch and Eva Lora Flanagan Welch. She was a merchant, retired from federal employment at the Fort Polk Military Base. She as a member of Thorn Church of God.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Thorn Church of God. Burial well be in Poplar Springs Cemetery at Vardaman with Southern Funeral Chapel in charge of arrangments.
Survivors include a son, Gaylon and wife, Katherine, of Starkville; four daughters, Theresa Huffman, Wanda Harrell and husband Eddie, and Eva Gayle Criddle and husband, David, all of Houston, and Rebecca Lyle of Austin, TX; a brother, Rex M. Welch and wife, Dell, of Berrien Springs, Mich.; 18 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren, and
seven great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Roy Raymond Alford, on Dec. 19, 1999; her parents and two brothers, James T. and Maurice E. Welch.
Pallbearers will be Jerry Martin, Sherman Alford, Jeff Laughlin, Jimmy Sanders, Dale Mooneyham, Ressell Moore and Jimmy "BoBo" Pettit.
Tupelo, Lee Co., MS- Thur., 2 Dec. 2004
Houston- Mary Lou Welch Alford, 85, died Wed., Dec. 1, 2004, at the Trace Regional Hospital in Houston. A native of Chickasaw County, she was born Mar. 16, 1919, to Gradion Smith Welch and Eva Lora Flanagan Welch. She was a merchant, retired from federal employment at the Fort Polk Military Base. She as a member of Thorn Church of God.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Thorn Church of God. Burial well be in Poplar Springs Cemetery at Vardaman with Southern Funeral Chapel in charge of arrangments.
Survivors include a son, Gaylon and wife, Katherine, of Starkville; four daughters, Theresa Huffman, Wanda Harrell and husband Eddie, and Eva Gayle Criddle and husband, David, all of Houston, and Rebecca Lyle of Austin, TX; a brother, Rex M. Welch and wife, Dell, of Berrien Springs, Mich.; 18 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren, and
seven great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Roy Raymond Alford, on Dec. 19, 1999; her parents and two brothers, James T. and Maurice E. Welch.
Pallbearers will be Jerry Martin, Sherman Alford, Jeff Laughlin, Jimmy Sanders, Dale Mooneyham, Ressell Moore and Jimmy "BoBo" Pettit.
Inscription
Wed May 28, 1936.
Gravesite Details
Wife of Roy Raymond Alford (no death date on stone).
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