Clydie Lucille Burrell Dickerson, 100, was greeted in Heaven by her Lord & Savior on February 10, 2016, at Atwood Personal Care Home in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Funeral services will be held at First Baptist Church in Durant on Saturday, February 13, at 11:30 A.M., with visitation to the public from 9:30 to 11:30.
Mrs. Dickerson was a native of Durant, MS. She was a member of First Baptist Church and enjoyed her Sunday School Class, JOY Group, and all fellowship activities.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Rev. Cephas Allen Dickerson. She is survived by her sons, Glyn Allen Dickerson, (Inez), Clyde Kenneth Dickerson, (Annis), both from West, MS, and her daughters, Lucy Alexander, (Louis) of Durant, MS and Sara Middleton, (Robert), Gwen Herring, (Wardell), and Carol Holley, (George, "Bubba") from Madison, MS. She was a proud grandmother of 12 grandchildren, 27 great grandchildren and 3 great great grandchildren.
Mrs. Dickerson is remembered as a "Lady cut from a special cloth". She was the oldest of 12 children to Oliver Calhoun and Ada Lula Burrell. Her surviving siblings are Bess Stauch, (Jack), Houston, TX, and Trent Burrell, (Francis), Canton, MS. She leaves behind a host of nieces, nephews, and friends.
"Always a devoted wife and mother and a child of God"