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Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at Friendship Baptist Church with her grandson, Rev. Dustin Ward officiating and Rev. Tim McCaffrey assisting. Interment will follow in the Wayside Cemetery at Scobey. The family will receive friends from noon until service time Tuesday at the church.
Survivors include her husband and the love of her life, James Ward whom she married May 28, 1966; daughter, Becky Ward Hathcock(Stevie) of Winona; sister, Diane Horne of Grenada; brother, Jimmy Kerr of Scobey; daughter-in-law, Marsha Ward of Grenada; five grandchildren, Jim Hathcock, Stanley Hathcock, Amanda Courtney, Dustin Ward and Presley Ward; and seven great-grandchildren, Derek Hughes, Kelly Goss, Payton Hathcock, Carson Goss, Dani Hathcock, Cailyn Wells and Isaiah Usry.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Lewis Coleman and Stella Marter Kerr; her bonus Dad, Jim Kerr; son, Steve Ward and a sister, Jessie Jones.
Daniel Beach, Ricky Koonce, Charles Jones, Keith Marter, Samy McCracken and Robby Stovall will honor Nellie by serving as pallbearers and carry her to rest in the Wayside Cemetery.
Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.mckibbenandguinn.com.
Arrangements have been entrusted to McKibben and Guinn Funeral Service in Grenada, (662-307-2694).
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Laura Redditt
January 14, 2025
Ms. Nellie was so sweet. She was a great neighbor and she never met a stranger. I will miss seeing and talking to her. Rest in heaven!
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