1911
Myrtle
2006
Myrtle Kelly
January 4, 1911 — November 7, 2006
MYRTLE KELLY
Plantersville - Myrtle Belle Foster Kelly, 95, died Tuesday, November 7, 2006, at North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A Lee County native, she was born January 4, 1911 to the late Thomas Presley and Sarah Elizabeth Brinkley Foster. In 1931 she graduated from Tupelo High School. During World War II she had served in the U.S. Navy Department of Civil Service in Washington D.C. After the war, she and her husband, Walter D. Kelly, purchased their family farm in Calhoun County where they lived for three years. They then moved to the Tupelo area where they lived since that time. She enjoyed working in her flowers and was known for her love of people and all kinds of animals. She was a member of Unity Presbyterian Church and also attended and taught Sunday School at Centerhill Baptist Church. She had recently received a comemorative plaque for teaching Sunday School for 82 years.
Services will be 2 p.m. Friday at The Jefferson Street Chapel of W. E. Pegues with Rev. Shane Ray officiating. Burial will be in Unity Cemetery east of Plantersville.
Survivors include her son, Thomas D. Kelly and fiance, Carolyn Davis, who was also her special caregiver, of Tremont; three sisters, Rena McFay of Tupelo, Elizabeth Sheffield of Tupelo, and Minnie Ruth Vanderford and husband, Amos, of Corpus Christi, Tex.; one brother, William G. "Bill" Foster and wife, Quinna Mae of Tupelo; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter D. Kelly who passed away February, 1979; her parents and two brothers, Clarance Presley Foster and Thomas Alexander Foster.
Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Plantersville - Myrtle Belle Foster Kelly, 95, died Tuesday, November 7, 2006, at North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A Lee County native, she was born January 4, 1911 to the late Thomas Presley and Sarah Elizabeth Brinkley Foster. In 1931 she graduated from Tupelo High School. During World War II she had served in the U.S. Navy Department of Civil Service in Washington D.C. After the war, she and her husband, Walter D. Kelly, purchased their family farm in Calhoun County where they lived for three years. They then moved to the Tupelo area where they lived since that time. She enjoyed working in her flowers and was known for her love of people and all kinds of animals. She was a member of Unity Presbyterian Church and also attended and taught Sunday School at Centerhill Baptist Church. She had recently received a comemorative plaque for teaching Sunday School for 82 years.
Services will be 2 p.m. Friday at The Jefferson Street Chapel of W. E. Pegues with Rev. Shane Ray officiating. Burial will be in Unity Cemetery east of Plantersville.
Survivors include her son, Thomas D. Kelly and fiance, Carolyn Davis, who was also her special caregiver, of Tremont; three sisters, Rena McFay of Tupelo, Elizabeth Sheffield of Tupelo, and Minnie Ruth Vanderford and husband, Amos, of Corpus Christi, Tex.; one brother, William G. "Bill" Foster and wife, Quinna Mae of Tupelo; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter D. Kelly who passed away February, 1979; her parents and two brothers, Clarance Presley Foster and Thomas Alexander Foster.
Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
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