Helen L. Hall

Published 3:09 pm Friday, February 5, 2016

By Holley Cochran

Mrs. Helen Lee Sands Hall, 79, died early Thursday morning January 21, 2016 at her home in rural Jefferson Davis County. Services for Mrs. Hall were held on Monday January 25, 2016 at the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, with Pastor Ozell White officiating. Interment was in the Griffith Cemetery, with Laird Mortuary in charge of all arrangements.

Mrs. Hall was the daughter of the late Leroy Sands and the late Willie Mae Laird Sands of rural Jefferson Davis County. At an early age she joined the Mt. Zion Church and remained a member until her death. Mrs. Hall was reared and educated in the Jefferson Davis County area, and worked for Jack and Angie Magee for 40 years. As a young woman, Mrs. Hall married the late Herman Hall and to this union one child was born.

Mrs. Hall’s survivors include her only daughter, Helen Arnie Joyce Stubbs of Prentiss; one brother, Tony (Vernell) Sands of Chicago, IL; two granddaughters, Shannon Stubbs and Diamond Hill, both of Prentiss; five great grandchildren; two sisters-in-law, and a number of other relatives and friends.

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