Graveside services for Rosa Frances Rowzee Pettey will be held Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. at Magnolia Cemetery with Dr. Carl White officiating. Robert Barham Family Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Pettey, age 101, of Meridian, died Thursday, February 13, 2014 at Golden Living Center. She was born on February 27, 1912, in Decatur, Mississippi and graduated from Decatur High School and from the second class of East Central Junior College. Mrs. Pettey retired from the Department of Human Services after 25 years of service. She was a member of Highland Baptist Church for 75 years where she taught Sunday school for over 50 years.
Survivors include her children, Leneal Massey (Hookey), Mary Moore, and Joe Pettey (Judy); grandchildren, Donnie Massey (Charlotte), Beth Dorman (Anthony), Isabel Corley (Phillip), Carol Fletcher (Brent), David Pettey (Heather), Bobby Wallace (Missy), and Tracie Hallberg; seventeen great-grandchildren; four great-great grandchildren; sister Lina Sartor; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Carson Pettey; parents, Samuel Joseph Rowzee and Maryanne Rebecca Brewer Rowzee; son-in-law Thomas K. Moore; sister Emma Addy; and brothers Samuel and Harold Rowzee.
In lieu of flowers the family request memorials be made to Highland Baptist Church.
Family and friends may sign the online guestbook at robertbarhamffh.com.
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O God our Father, Creator of all the living,
we entrust to Your gentle care
all those we love who have gone before us;
and have gone to their rest in the hope of rising again. . . .
Eternal rest, grant unto Hunter, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon him.
May the souls of the faithful departed
through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen.
Mrs. Pettey, age 101, of Meridian, died Thursday, February 13, 2014 at Golden Living Center. She was born on February 27, 1912, in Decatur, Mississippi and graduated from Decatur High School and from the second class of East Central Junior College. Mrs. Pettey retired from the Department of Human Services after 25 years of service. She was a member of Highland Baptist Church for 75 years where she taught Sunday school for over 50 years.
Survivors include her children, Leneal Massey (Hookey), Mary Moore, and Joe Pettey (Judy); grandchildren, Donnie Massey (Charlotte), Beth Dorman (Anthony), Isabel Corley (Phillip), Carol Fletcher (Brent), David Pettey (Heather), Bobby Wallace (Missy), and Tracie Hallberg; seventeen great-grandchildren; four great-great grandchildren; sister Lina Sartor; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Carson Pettey; parents, Samuel Joseph Rowzee and Maryanne Rebecca Brewer Rowzee; son-in-law Thomas K. Moore; sister Emma Addy; and brothers Samuel and Harold Rowzee.
In lieu of flowers the family request memorials be made to Highland Baptist Church.
Family and friends may sign the online guestbook at robertbarhamffh.com.
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O God our Father, Creator of all the living,
we entrust to Your gentle care
all those we love who have gone before us;
and have gone to their rest in the hope of rising again. . . .
Eternal rest, grant unto Hunter, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon him.
May the souls of the faithful departed
through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen.
