Ethel Mae Grinstead

Published 11:37 am Friday, March 24, 2017

By Holley Cochran

A memorial service for Ethel Mae Grinstead was held on Saturday, March 18, 2017, at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Prentiss. Brother Wyman Mobley officiated. Laird Mortuary was in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Grinstead, 67, died Thursday morning March 9, 2017, at Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg.

Mrs. Grinstead was the daughter of the late Josephus Bridges and the late Viola Brewer Bridges of Silver Creek.

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As a young woman she attended school in Lawrence County, prior to working for 15 years at Kellwood sewing factory in Monticello.  Mrs. Grinstead met and married the love of her life in 1969, Lee Charles (L.C.) Grinstead of Silver Creek and to this union three sons were born.

Mrs. Grinstead’s survivors include her husband, L. C. Grinstead of Silver Creek; three sons, Gary Grin-stead of Tylertown, Wayne Grinstead of Wesson, and Johnny Grinstead of Silver Creek; six sisters, Gloria Toney, Verlean Newsome, Sarah Diggs, Belma Stanfield, Ethel Brown and Kathy Montgomery; four grandchildren; and a number of other relatives and friends.

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