Mrs. Mims Rites Set (02-04-1961)

Services for Mrs. Lacy D. Mims who died at her home 
Saturday night, will be held this morning at 10:30 at
Margin Funeral Home with the Rev. Glenn Miller, of
the First Methodist Church and Rev. Robert Walkup
of the First Presbyterian Church officiating.  Burial
will be in Oddfellows Cemetery.

Mrs. Mims, affectionately known as "Miss Emma"
during her many years as an employe of the grocery firm of
Reed and Lewis, died suddenly following a heart attack.

Born in Coaling, Ala., in 1891, she was the daughter of
T. J. and Willie Boles.  Mrs. Mims was graduated from
Tuscaloosa High School and in 1939 married Lacy Mims
of Starkville, where she had been a resident since 1914.

She leaves her husband, Lacy D. Mims, and one son,
Thomas S. Bell, both of Starkville; two step-sons, L. D.
Mims, Jr., of El Dorado, Ark., and James Mims of 
Starkville; two sisters, Mrs. E. J. Palmer of Northport,
Ala., and Mrs. E. F. Friar of Nashville, Tenn; two
brothers, Leland Boles of Birmingham, Ala., and Aaron
Boles of Calera, Ala.

Active pallbearers will be Billy McIntyre of Columbus,
Marvin Critz, Billups Allen, Earl Atkinson, Robert Ogden,
Frank Meigs, Charlie Aycock, Frank Jackson.

Honorary are W. B. Owen, Charlie Bell and Erie Staggers, Sr.


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