Pearly Pitts Mitchell
September 6, 1920 – June 16, 2008
Pearly Pitts Mitchell, age 87, of Picayune passed away
Monday, June 16, 2008 at
The funeral service will be
held Thursday, June 19th, at 10:00 a.m.
at Picayune Funeral Home Chapel,
with Bro. Kevin Neary, Bro. Dan Finley,
Bro. Larry Lassley and Bro. Ricky Ryles
officiating.
Burial will follow at
Visitation will be Wednesday,
June 18th from 6:00-8:00 p.m.
at Picayune Funeral Home.
Pearly has lived in the
Picayune area since 1961.
She loved people and enjoyed
working at restaurants.
She was the owner of Picayune
Restaurant and
worked at Hilda’s Café, the truck
stop at McNeill, and
was a hostess at Hardee’s in Picayune.
She was also a
member of Faith Chapel Church of God
in Ozona.
She is survived by
her children: Dorothy Pekinto
and her husband Joe of Kiln,
Eljie Bennett, Sr. and his wife Sue
of Picayune,
Barbara McLendon
and her husband Jim of Carriere, and
Wanda Lee and her husband Norman of Carriere;
twenty grandchildren;
sixty-one
great-grandchildren; and
ten
great-great-grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by
her first husband, John R. Bennett and
second husband, Lee Preston Mitchell;
two grandchildren, Terry Adele Bowman and
Joey D. McLendon;
and
one
great-grandchild,
Jackson McLendon.