Martha Ann McLelland

Martha Ann Whittington McLelland

Pearl, MS

July 1, 1948 - July 24, 2025

Martha passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by family after a lengthy battle with dementia at the age of 77.

Martha worked as a house cleaner for many years. Her “ladies” she cleaned for were more than merely employers they were family to her. She watched their families grow up over the years she worked with them and loved on these families as they did her in return. As she aged, she had to step back from her “ladies” to concentrate on her aging mother and eventually her husband as well. She was a caregiver in one capacity or another all of her life, from being the oldest of five siblings and at times helping to raise them to being the main caregiver to their mother for the last 25 years of her mother’s life.

Martha loved her family fiercely and gave her all to them. She was an amazing mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt and friend but most of all Martha was a wonderful Christian lady and lifelong member of Clearview Baptist Church in Mendenhall, MS. She absolutely loved to sing gospel music either in church or as a soprano member in the local Southern Gospel Group “The Gospel New Ways”.

Martha was the kind of person who absolutely NEVER met a stranger and never passed up an opportunity to tell someone about her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who saved her years ago through a kind gentle soul she met when she moved to the community of Antioch, MS in 1975.

Martha has now completed her journey on earth and has entered the arms of Jesus where her body and mind have been healed and made whole.

“I know that God is faithful. I know that he answers prayers, many times in ways I may not understand” Sheila Walsh