Billie Faye Bedwell

Published 5:05 pm Wednesday, November 28, 2018

By Holley Cochran

The Prentiss Headlight—Billie Faye Bedwell

Funeral services for Mrs. Billie Faye Bedwell were held at noon Nov. 17, 2018, at the Saulters Funeral Home Chapel. Mrs. Bedwell, 74, died Nov. 13, 2018, at her residence in Prentiss sur- rounded by family. Rev. Charles Lee Loftin, Rev. Benji Sessums and Spud McNeese officiated and burial was in the Carson Baptist Church Cemetery in Carson.

Saulters Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

The pallbearers were Darren McNeese, Spud McNeese, Maurice Herrington, Gary Wheat, Glen Dale Saulters, Johnny Lee, Mikel Faler and Howard Parish. The honorary pallbearers were Paul Allen Garner and Roy Terrell.

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Billie Faye Bedwell was born July 24, 1944 in Prentiss to Frank Edwin McNease and Garlene Armstrong McNease. She will be remembered as a loving wife, mother and grandmother.

She loved to travel, ride horses and work in her flowers. She graduated from Prentiss High School in 1962 then attended Pearl River Junior College. She was the payroll clerk in the Chancery Clerk’s office and she was a member of Carson Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her mother and father.

Mrs. Bedwell is survived by her husband of 54 years, Dennis Bedwell of Prentiss; one daugh- ter, Lisa Hathorn and her husband Kim of Prentiss; one son, Ed Bedwell and his wife Michele of Carson; two grandsons, Tanner Hathorn and Evan Bedwell; as well as a host of other relatives and friends.

Visitation was November 17, 2018 from 10 a.m. to noon at Saulters Funeral Home. Online condolences and a guest registry are available at www.saultersmoorefuneralhome.com.

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