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Nell Brasfield
AMORY - Edith Nell Montgomery Brasfield, 99, died Tuesday, June 5, 2007, at the Oak Tree Plantation in Amory after a long illness. She was born May 3, 1908, in Decatur, Ala., to the late John Gregory Montgomery Jr. and Lonie Parham Montgomery. She lived in Decatur and the Splunge community, and in Amory for the past 82 years. She married Aubrey Lee Brasfield in 1925; he died in 1963. She was a member of the UMW, Modern Homemakers, DAR, UDC, the church choir and the garden club. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, where she served as a Sunday school teacher. She was a homemaker. She enjoyed flower gardening, working as a seamstress and cooking.

Services will be at 11 a.m. today at the E.E. Pickle Funeral Home Chapel in Amory with the Rev. Rusty Keen and the Rev. David Hill officiating. Burial will be in the Masonic Cemetery in Amory.

Survivors include one son, Lee Montgomery Brasfield (Lois) of Amory; one sister, Evelyn Kennedy of Amory; four grandchildren, Vicki Horne Cunningham, Jack D. Horne Jr. (Libby), Ricky Lee Brasfield and Bradley Brasfield (Neita); eight great-grandchildren, Whit Brasfield, Lindsay Brasfield, Taylor Brasfield, Katy Cunningham McCurley, Jay Cunningham, Kayla Horne, Kerri Horne and Rorie Thornton; two nieces, Ann Montgomery Lusk and Becky Kennedy Banks.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one daughter, Bettianne Horne; one grandson, Mark David Brasfield; one sister, Maye Montgomery; and one brother, Charles Montgomery.

Pallbearers will be Jim Cunningham, Clay McCurley, Bobby Hudson, Jimmy Lee Lusk, Phil Roberts and Donald "Tootsie" Mize.

Visitation will continue until service time today at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 147, Amory, MS 38821.


Buried:
Masonic Cemetery

Edith married BRASFIELD, Aubrey Clovis Lee on 2 Sep 1925. Aubrey (son of BRASFIELD, Rufus Esa and SMITH, Mollie Joe) was born on 25 Sep 1903 in Smithville, Monroe, Mississippi, USA; died on 26 Mar 1966 in Amory, Monroe, Mississippi, USA; was buried in Amory, Monroe, Mississippi, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. BRASFIELD, Bettianne was born about 1927; died before 2007.
2. BRASFIELD, Lee Montgomery was born on 6 Aug 1936; died on 19 Oct 2020.

John married PARHAM, Delonie Ellen between 1893 and 1919. Delonie was born on 31 Oct 1881 in Splunge, Mississippi; died on 6 Oct 1930 in Monroe, Mississippi, USA; was buried in New Hope, Monroe County, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]