Obituary for Lillian Lee Pearce

August 07, 2008 09:49 am

— Lillian Lee Pearce
Services for Lillian Lee Pearce, 88, Pelham, are at 10 a.m., Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, at Jamerson-Braswell Funeral Home Chapel in Pelham. The Rev. Franklin Russ will officiate and interment is in Pinecrest Memory Gardens in Pelham. Mrs. Pearce died Aug. 5 at Pelham Parkway Nursing Home in Pelham. Born Jan. 4, 1920, in Cairo, she was a daughter of the late Joseph and Mattie Whitfield Lee. She was married to Cuy Braxton Pearce who preceded her in death. She was a homemaker, member of Harmony Baptist Church, member of American Legion Post No. 144 and Women’s Auxiliary of the VFW. Survivors include sons, Virgil Pearce and wife, Georgia of Thomasville, Larry Pearce and wife, Marie of Pelham; daughter, Sandra Woods and husband, James of Jennings, Fla.; grandchildren, Timothy Pearce, Virgil Pearce Jr., Christie Bush, Fred Pollock, Mitchell Pollock, Morris Pollock, Barbara Worsham, Ricky Worsham, Gina Becton, Terri Hall; and 17 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Cuy Braxton Pearce; parents, Joseph and Mattie Whitfield Lee; brothers, Walton Lee, John Henry Lee, Alton Lee, Will Lee, Monroe Lee; sisters, Pearl Butler, Pauline Hammett, Eunice Cook and Lorene Johnson. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m., today at the funeral home. Visitors may sign the online guest register at www.jamerson-braswell.com — Jamerson-Braswell Funeral Home