Obituary of Mae Mitchell

Services for Mae Mitchell, 92, New London, are scheduled for 9:00 am, Saturday, October 25, at the Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home chapel with the Reverends Bob Jones and Ken Hayman officiating. Burial will be in the Lakewood Cemetery, Henderson. Mrs. Mitchell died Wednesday, October 22, 2008, at her residence, in New London. She was born April 8, 1916, in Rusk County, to the late William and Virginia Flanagan Wherry and was a lifetime resident of the New London area. Mrs. Mitchell was a member of the London Baptist Church and the Order of the Eastern Star. She was a loving mother and grandmother. She was preceded in death by her husband, Edgar Mitchell; two brothers, Varne Wherry and William 'Bill' Wherry; and a sister, Lorene Dunn. Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, J.R. And Maribel Mitchell, New London; two grandchildren and their spouses, Latricia Mitchell Jacobs and Larry Jacobs and Dana Mitchell Alexander and Ricky Alexander; four great-grandchildren, Lane Jacobs, Lindsey Jacobs, Jackie Turner, and Mackenzie Alexander; nephews, Buddy Dunn and and Joe Wherry; nieces, Joan Smith, Patsy Comer, Marianna Cozart, and Jan Chatelaine; and two sisters-in-law, Dorothy Wherry and Elsie Wherry. Pallbearers will be Freddie Crumpler, Bubba McFarland, Steve Wedgeworth, Larry Clinkscales, Glenn McCommon, and Paul David Harris. Honorary Pallbearers will be Arlis Stone and Ray Poole. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6:00 pm until 8:00 pm, Friday, October 24.