Frances Brackett
Posted: April 23, 2010
COLUMBUS — Frances L. Brackett, 74, died April 15, 2010, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Services are Saturday at 2 p.m. at Mount Zion MB Church with the Rev. Jessie Slater officiating. Burial will follow in New Baptist Temple Memorials Gardens. Visitation is today from noon-6 p.m. at Carter’s Funeral Services of Columbus. Mrs. Brackett was born Nov. 20, 1935, to the late Raymond and Willie Bell Haney. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sons, Larry Haney and Dan Brackett, and husband. She is survived by her children, Melvin Brackett, of Millport, Ala., and Alice Scott, of Columbus; siblings, Bobby Haney, of Oklahoma City, Okla.; Billy Haney, of Chicago, Yank Haney, of Dayton, Ohio, Gloria Washington, Peggy Peterson, Brenda Haney and Bertha Harris, all of Milwaukee, and Lois Everett, of Chicago; nine grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. Pallbearers are Durant Holliness, Sam Neal, Curtis Davis, Curtis Jordan, Tony Kidd and Myron Kidd.