Thelmay Bridges

Published 5:54 pm Friday, November 22, 2013

Mrs. Thelmay Bridges Magee, 83, died November 7, 2013, at the Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb. Services for Mrs. Magee were held on November 16 at the Rose Hill M.B. Church, with Pastor Larry Jackson and Rev. Bill O. Walker officiating. Interment was in the Rose Hill Cemetery, with Laird Mortuary, LLC in charge of all arrangements.

Mrs. Magee was the daughter of the late Andrew Bridges and the late Ina E. Sutton Bridges of rural Lawrence County. At and early age, she joined the Rose Hill Church, and remained an active member until her death. Mrs. Magee married the late Larcell Magee of Prentiss, and to this union two boys and two girls were born. As a young woman, Mrs. Magee was reared and educated in the Lawrence County area, and worked most of her adult life as a mother and homemaker.

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Mrs. Magee’s survivors include two daughters, Thelma Elaine Watkins of Jackson, and Earlene Lawson of Brooklyn, NY; two sons, Larcell Aaron (Daisy) Magee, and Kenneth Ray (Carolyn) Magee, both of Silver Creek; 12 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.