Tilley Delquan Wilhite

Tillery Delquan

Wilhite

Huntsville

Memorial services for Ms. Tillery Delquan Wilhite, 37, of Huntsville will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Macedonia Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America in Decatur with Brother Anthony Hullett officiating and Reynolds Funeral Home directing. A private burial will be held at a later date.

Tillery Delquan Wilhite was born October 23, 1973, in Tuscaloosa to Charles and Jonnical Nevith Wilhite. Tillery passed from this life on September 26, 2011. She attended elementary school in Florence and graduated from Lee High School in May 1992. Tillery went on to matriculate at Yale University earning a B.S. degree in Psychology in 1996. She attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, obtaining a Juris Doctorate degree. Tillery later studied for and passed the Alabama Bar.

She leaves to cherish her memory her father, Charles (Barbara) Wilhite of Pulaski, Tenn.; mother, Jonnical (John) Weeks of Birmingham; brother, Charles, Jr. (Jennifer) Wilhite of Toney; niece, Jenniya Wilhite, who she cherished. Several uncles survive her, including Terry and Kenneth Colbert, Northport, James, Elmore and Melvin Youngblood, New York City, Ben Echols, Houston, Texas, Richard Echols, Baton Rouge, La., and Jimmy Echols, Appleton, Minn. Surviving aunts are Debra Blakely and Earnestine Robinson, Seattle, Wash., and Martha Somerville and Ethelene Bradshaw, New York City. She is also survived by numerous cousins, relatives and friends.

This obituary was originally published in the Decatur Daily.