Obituary of Leota Guilliams

Services for Leota Brown Guilliams, 85, Troup, are scheduled for 10:00 am, Saturday, June 28, in the Cottle Funeral Home Chapel, Troup, with Reverend Bennie Portwood officiating. Burial will be in New Emmaus Cemetery, Cherokee County. Mrs. Guilliams died Thursday, June 26, 2008 in a Tyler nursing home. She was born May 21, 1923 in Cherokee County to the late Nance and Dora Hartgraves Brown. She had worked as a factory worker for Margie's Bra Company, Jacksonvile, for 21 years and for Mason- Tyler and R.L. Davis in Tyler and in the nursery at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church for 20 years. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Glenn McMichael and Howard Guiliams, a son, Larry Paul McMichael and a grandson, David McMichael. Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Janelle and Richard Preston, Tyler. Pallbearers will be Rickey McMichael, Mike Crist, Trent Mttox, Dewayne Brown, Scott Kersh, and Jerry Kersh. The Family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm, Friday, June 27, 2008. Memorials, if desired, may be made to the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church Building Fund, 10519 FM 344 East, Whitehouse, TX 75791.