Rachel Ruth Pyron

Rachel Ruth Andrews Pyron, age 75, died Wednesday, March 18, 2009, at her home in Clinton MS.
Services will be held at Parkway Baptist Church, Clinton, MS at 11 am Friday, March 20, 2009. Visitation will be at Parkway Baptist Church from 5 pm to 7 pm today and 9:30 am til service time Friday.
Wright & Ferguson Funeral Home Clinton is in charge of arrangements.
She atttended Leland High School and graduated from Central High School in Jackson, MS.
She attended Mississippi College and graduated with a BA in Religiouis Education. Later she returned to college and obtained a masters and specialist degreee in Library Science with a teachers's cetificate.
She taught almost 25 years in Jackson Public Schools as a elementary librarian.
After retiring she served as head of the Mississippi Baptist Historical Commission.at Mississippi College for 7 years.
She was married to Douglas Pyron 54 years and was a life long member of Parkway Baptist Church where choir and teaching her sunday school class was one of her chief interests.
She is preceeded in death by her parents and son, Donald Wayne Pyron.
She is survived by her husband, Douglas Pyron; sons, William Douglas Pyron and David Scott Pyron and wife, Linda Pyron; grandson Benjamin Donald Pyron; sister, Elaine Sanders of Charlotte NC; and stepmother, Ruth Coleman Andrews of Cleveland, MS. Cousins include Lester Andrews of Charlottesville VA, Roy Lee Nicholson of Byron GA, RS Nicholson of San Jose, CA, and Rita Pizzulo of Winston Salem, NC.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers donations be made to Parkway Baptist Chruch to the ministeries program 802 N Frontage Rd., Clinton, MS 39056, or the American Cancer Society and Hospice Ministries.