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Birth Date12 Sep 1909
Birth PlaceSmithville, Monroe County, Mississippi
Death Date5 Oct 2004 Age: 95
Death PlaceAmory, Monroe County, Mississippi
Misc. Notes
Mellie Green Brasfield Stevens, 95, died Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2004, at Beverly Healthcare in Amory after a long illness. She was born Sept. 12, 1909, in Smithville to the late Joseph Arther and Ora Beula Ausborn Brasfield.
A lifelong resident of Monroe County, she lived in Smithville and Amory. She married Elmer Troy Stevens in 1927; he died in 1944.
She was a homemaker and a master seamstress. She was a member of the First Free Will Baptist Church of Amory and a member of the Women's Auxiliary. She enjoyed gardening.
Survivors include a daughter, Bernice Nell Stevens Shaddix of Amory; a sister, Ruby Laverne Brasfield Hill of Amory; three grandchildren, Steven Shaddix, Suzanne Shaddix and Edward Burton Shaddix; two great-grandchildren, Cory and Aiden.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; three brothers, Floyd Brasfield, Casper Brasfield and Melvin Brasfield; three sisters, Fleta Brasfield Shumpert, Flonnie Brasfield Gilmore and Jewel Brasfield Nash; a granddaughter, Kay Brown; and a grandson, Bobby Joe "Joey" Shaddix.
Pallbearers will be Steven Keith Shaddix, Edward Burton Shaddix, Dennis Brasfield, Joe Franke, John Dwight Stevens, Bobby Hill and Dickie Hill.