Janie Harvey

Published 4:22 pm Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Funeral services were held December 4, 2013, at Saulters Moore Funeral Chapel in Prentiss, for Mrs. Janie Harvey, age 102, of Carson. She passed away on December 2 at her residence. Interment followed at Dublin Cemetery. Saulters Moore Funeral Home of Prentiss was in charge of all arrangements.

Rev. Robert Sones officiated. Pallbearers were Leonard Daley, Terry Harvey, Lee Applewhite, Cole Perrin, Peyton McNease and Andrew Daley.

Mrs. Fannie Jane “Janie” Harvey was born on November 10, 1911, in Jefferson Davis County. She was the daughter of John Isom Ward and Sarah Robbins Ward. She worked as a seamstress in the garment factories in Columbia, Prentiss and Bassfield. She was a member of Dublin Baptist Church. She had been a member of Dublin Baptist Church her entire life and was the oldest member of the church.

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Mrs. Harvey is survived by her daughter, Elsie Daley of Carson; her six grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and 15 great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Leon Harvey, her son, seven brothers and five sisters.