1914
Lessie
2006
Lessie Fancher
August 27, 1914 — December 2, 2006
Lessie Fancher
NEW CHAPEL - Lessie Morris Fancher, 92, died Sunday, Dec. 2, 2006, at the Beverly Healthcare on Eason Blvd. after a short illness. A native of Itawamba County, she was born Aug. 27, 1914, to the late Walter Green and Ada Gertrude Pennal Morris. She worked many years as a seamstress in the garment manufacturing industry and had retired with Red Cap. She was the widow of James Buchannen Fancher who preceded her in death in 1977. She attended New Chapel United Methodist Church. She enjoyed traveling and had traveled extensively throughout the United States and even overseas. She enjoyed taking care of the "old folks" throughout her eighties and early nineties, when being admitted in a nursing facility.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at New Chapel United Methodist Church with the Rev. Don Sparks officiating. Burial will be in the New Chapel Cemetery. W.E. Pegues Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include one son, James Cameron Fancher and wife, Marty, of Mooreville; one son-in-law, George Thompson of Nalcrest, Fla.; one sister, Josephine Dauphine of Fresno, Calif.; six grandchildren, Mark Fancher and James Lee Fancher, both of Mooreville, Gary Fancher of Pleasant Prairie, Wisc., George Thompson III and Robert Thompson, both of Moore, Okla., and Denise Ueltschy of Mid West City, Okla.; and 10 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her daughter, Patsy Ruth Thompson; and a granddaughter, Cindy Webb.
Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until service time on Wednesday at the church.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to New Chapel United Methodist Church of the New Chapel Cemetery Fund.
NEW CHAPEL - Lessie Morris Fancher, 92, died Sunday, Dec. 2, 2006, at the Beverly Healthcare on Eason Blvd. after a short illness. A native of Itawamba County, she was born Aug. 27, 1914, to the late Walter Green and Ada Gertrude Pennal Morris. She worked many years as a seamstress in the garment manufacturing industry and had retired with Red Cap. She was the widow of James Buchannen Fancher who preceded her in death in 1977. She attended New Chapel United Methodist Church. She enjoyed traveling and had traveled extensively throughout the United States and even overseas. She enjoyed taking care of the "old folks" throughout her eighties and early nineties, when being admitted in a nursing facility.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at New Chapel United Methodist Church with the Rev. Don Sparks officiating. Burial will be in the New Chapel Cemetery. W.E. Pegues Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include one son, James Cameron Fancher and wife, Marty, of Mooreville; one son-in-law, George Thompson of Nalcrest, Fla.; one sister, Josephine Dauphine of Fresno, Calif.; six grandchildren, Mark Fancher and James Lee Fancher, both of Mooreville, Gary Fancher of Pleasant Prairie, Wisc., George Thompson III and Robert Thompson, both of Moore, Okla., and Denise Ueltschy of Mid West City, Okla.; and 10 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her daughter, Patsy Ruth Thompson; and a granddaughter, Cindy Webb.
Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until service time on Wednesday at the church.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to New Chapel United Methodist Church of the New Chapel Cemetery Fund.
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