The family of Sandra Birch Lee would like to thank everyone for the cards, telephone calls, food, money, words of condolences, but most of all for the prayers.  We still need your prayers to help us at this heartbreaking time.

Floyce Bates Harrell
(January 11, 1922 – July 10, 2009)

Died at 8:00AM on Friday, July 10, 2009 at her residence in Kentwood, LA. Age 87 years. Mrs. Harrell was born Jan. 11, 1922 in Amite County, the daughter of Calvin Monroe and Molly Frances Fluker Bates. She was a member of Osyka Baptist Church. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Kentwood, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Friday and from at Osyka Baptist Church, Osyka, MS from 10 a.m. Saturday until religious services at 4 p.m. Saturday. Services conducted by Revs. Milton Kliesch, Merlin McCon, and Amos Ezell. Interment Osyka Cemetery, Osyka, MS. Survivors include three daughters, Helen Louise Ezell and her husband Amos of Leesville, LA, Bennie Mae Ezell and her husband Claudus of Walker, LA, Julia Anna “Judy” Jett and her husband John, of Hornbeck, LA, Also 12 grandchildren, 30 great grandchildren. 5 great-great-grandchildren, and a number of nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Ben Harrell, two sons, Ben Junior Harrell and Robert Wiley Harrell, granddaughter, Mary Anna Harrell, daughter-in-law, Joyce Harrell Felder, three brothers, Claude L. Bates, James Calvin “JC” Bates, and Sitman Stewart Bates, two sisters, Bertha Jane Bates and Daisy Belle Varnado. Pallbearers will be Tim Ezell, Mike Ezell, Robert Harrell, John D. Jett, Joseph Jett, Rick Wentzel, and Philip Jackson. Honorary Pallbearers will be Charles “Deacon” Autrey, Chuck Autrey, Benje Autrey, Chase Ezell, Cody Ezell, Matthew Harrell and Blake Rainwater.