Mary Sawtelle
Posted: August 18, 2016
WEST POINT — Mary Sue Sawtelle, 77, died Aug. 16, 2016, at North Mississippi Medical Center-Tupelo. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Calvert Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Kirby Lloyd officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Garden Cemetery. Visitation is from 5-8 p.m. today at Calvert Funeral Home. Mrs. Sawtelle was born Sept. 9, 1938, to the late Roy Earl and Nannie Louise Clark Harrison. She was previously employed as a seamstress at Futorian Furniture Factor in Okolona. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Gary Lawrence Sawtelle; and brothers, James and Billy Harrison. She is survived by her daughters, Michelle Carter of West Point and Lorie Thompson of Pontotoc; sons, Charles Timothy Wilson and Thomas Mark Wilson, both of Houston, Joseph Darrell Wilson and George Sawtelle, both of West Point; sisters, Barbara Farley and Linda Walls, both of Okolona; ten grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Tyler Wilson, Eric Wilson, Jon Shaw, Zane Parker III, Terry Burns, Robin Walls and George Sawtelle. Memorials may be made to Palmer Home for Children, PO Box 746, Columbus, MS 39701 or Sally Kate Winters Home for Children, PO Box 1277, West Point, MS 39773-1277.