Jennie Essie Worrell Coleman (1891-1978)

Jennie Essie Worrell Coleman

Birth

17 Sep 1891

Fentress, Choctaw County, Mississippi, USA

Death

14 Mar 1978 (aged 86)

Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, USA

Burial

Enon Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Ackerman, Choctaw County, Mississippi, USA Add to Map

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Judge Coleman's Mother Dies

Mrs. Jennie Worrell Coleman, mother of J. P. Coleman, former governor of Mississippi and now a judge on the Fifth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, died Tuesday at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson following a lengthy illness. She was 86.

Funeral services were to be held today (Thursday) at 10 a.m. at the Fentress Baptist Church with burial to follow in the Enon Cemetery.

Mrs. Coleman, widow of Thomas Allen Coleman, was a native of Fentress and was a member of the Fentress Baptist Church. She and her late husband lived on a Choctaw County farm until his death in 1968.

In addition to J. P. Coleman, she leaves two other sons, Boyce Coleman of Pascagoula and W. D. Coleman of Jackson and deputy attorney general of Mississippi; a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Golden of Vaughan; a sister, Mrs. Charles F. Prewitt of Kosciusko; two brothers, Hughey Worrell and S. B. Worrell, both of Ackerman; nine grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

Officiating ministers will be the Rev. J. B. Smith and the Rev. Dan Thompson.

Adams Funeral Home of Ackerman is in charge of arrangements.

The Star-Herald
Kosciusko, Mississippi
16 Mar 1978, Thu • Page 8

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Mrs. Jennie Worrell Coleman

ACKERMAN - Funeral services for Mrs. Jennie Worrell Coleman, 86, mother of Judge J.P. Coleman of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and former governor of the State of Mississippi from 1956 to 1960, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Fentress Baptist Church. Burial will be in Enon Cemetery in Ackerman with Adams Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Coleman, widow of Thomas A. Coleman, died Tuesday at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson after a long illness.

Besides her son Judge Coleman of Ackerman, she is survived by two other sons, Deputy Attorney General of Mississippi, W.D. Coleman of Jackson, and Boyce Coleman of Pascagoula; a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Golden of Vaughn; two brothers, Hughey Worrell and S.B. Worrell, both of Ackerman; a sister, Mrs. Charles F. Prewitt of Kosciusko; nine grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.

Clarion-Ledger
Jackson, Mississippi
15 Mar 1978, Wed • Page 24