MANTACHIE – Jimmie Helen Grissom Gilbert, 81, died Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013, at the Spain Wallace Center at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Ala. She was born Dec. 12, 1931, to Oliver and Verlie Wiginton Grissom. She was the ninth of 10 children born and raised in Mantachie. She moved to California in 1956 and then onto Anchorage, Alaska, for 15 years. In 1991, she moved to Birmingham, Ala. to open and operate Rolling in Dough Pie Shop. In 1997, she worked at Miss Myra's BBQ until her retirement two years ago.
Services will be 2 p. m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, at McNeece-Morris Funeral Home Chapel in Mantachie with the Rev. Dorothy Wigginton Hough officiating. Burial will be in Oak Grove cemetery.
She is survived by four sisters, Mildred Tucker of Mantachie, Faye Cross of Tucson, Ariz., Lora McCabe of Rocklin, Calif. and Myra Harper (Karl) of Birmingham, Ala.; one special niece, Rennae Wheat of Birmingham, Ala.; and a host of other nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Jerry Gilbert; two sons, Mike and Phil Cherry; two sisters, Freda Dickerson and Bennie Spradling; and three brothers, Lawrence, Bruce and Oliver Wendell Grissom.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home in Mantachie.
Online condolences and a guest register book may be accessed at mcneecemorrisfuneralhome.com.
Published in Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal on Nov. 11, 2013
Services will be 2 p. m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, at McNeece-Morris Funeral Home Chapel in Mantachie with the Rev. Dorothy Wigginton Hough officiating. Burial will be in Oak Grove cemetery.
She is survived by four sisters, Mildred Tucker of Mantachie, Faye Cross of Tucson, Ariz., Lora McCabe of Rocklin, Calif. and Myra Harper (Karl) of Birmingham, Ala.; one special niece, Rennae Wheat of Birmingham, Ala.; and a host of other nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Jerry Gilbert; two sons, Mike and Phil Cherry; two sisters, Freda Dickerson and Bennie Spradling; and three brothers, Lawrence, Bruce and Oliver Wendell Grissom.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home in Mantachie.
Online condolences and a guest register book may be accessed at mcneecemorrisfuneralhome.com.
Published in Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal on Nov. 11, 2013
MANTACHIE – Jimmie Helen Grissom Gilbert, 81, died Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013, at the Spain Wallace Center at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Ala. She was born Dec. 12, 1931, to Oliver and Verlie Wiginton Grissom. She was the ninth of 10 children born and raised in Mantachie. She moved to California in 1956 and then onto Anchorage, Alaska, for 15 years. In 1991, she moved to Birmingham, Ala. to open and operate Rolling in Dough Pie Shop. In 1997, she worked at Miss Myra's BBQ until her retirement two years ago.
Services will be 2 p. m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, at McNeece-Morris Funeral Home Chapel in Mantachie with the Rev. Dorothy Wigginton Hough officiating. Burial will be in Oak Grove cemetery.
She is survived by four sisters, Mildred Tucker of Mantachie, Faye Cross of Tucson, Ariz., Lora McCabe of Rocklin, Calif. and Myra Harper (Karl) of Birmingham, Ala.; one special niece, Rennae Wheat of Birmingham, Ala.; and a host of other nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Jerry Gilbert; two sons, Mike and Phil Cherry; two sisters, Freda Dickerson and Bennie Spradling; and three brothers, Lawrence, Bruce and Oliver Wendell Grissom.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home in Mantachie.
Online condolences and a guest register book may be accessed at mcneecemorrisfuneralhome.com.
Published in Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal on Nov. 11, 2013
Services will be 2 p. m. Tuesday, Nov. 12, at McNeece-Morris Funeral Home Chapel in Mantachie with the Rev. Dorothy Wigginton Hough officiating. Burial will be in Oak Grove cemetery.
She is survived by four sisters, Mildred Tucker of Mantachie, Faye Cross of Tucson, Ariz., Lora McCabe of Rocklin, Calif. and Myra Harper (Karl) of Birmingham, Ala.; one special niece, Rennae Wheat of Birmingham, Ala.; and a host of other nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Jerry Gilbert; two sons, Mike and Phil Cherry; two sisters, Freda Dickerson and Bennie Spradling; and three brothers, Lawrence, Bruce and Oliver Wendell Grissom.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home in Mantachie.
Online condolences and a guest register book may be accessed at mcneecemorrisfuneralhome.com.
Published in Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal on Nov. 11, 2013
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