Obituary of Annona Heizer

Funeral services for Annona R. "Nona" Heizer, 84, Holly Lake Ranch, will be at 10 a.m., Wednesday, November 11, in the Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home Chapel, Overton with Reverends Jim Atkins and Ben Draper officiating. Burial will be in the Overton City Cemetery. Mrs. Heizer died Saturday, November 7, 2009 in Tyler. She was born January 27, 1925 in Frost to the late Raymond and Edna Elizabeth Tekell Stewart. She moved to Holly Lake thirty years ago from Kilgore. She was a homemaker and loved fishing, gardening and the outdoors. She was preceded in death by her husband, Claud A. Mitchell, a son, Claud Steven Mitchell, two brothers James Robert Stewart and Ralph Stewart, and a sister, Gwendolyn Faye Williams. Survivors include two daughters and a son-in-law, Claudia Mitchell and Dale England of The Woodlands, and Linda Draper of Alba; seven grandchildren, Gina Draper, Cara Goldstein, Susan Ross, Ben Draper, Rhonda Muldoon, Mitchell Blackmon and Angelo Row; twenty three great-grandchildren, including Brandi Mizzell; five great-great grandchildren including Cason and Avery Mizzell and numerous nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Mitchell Blackmon, Ben Draper, Steven Stewart, Visitation will be from 7:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m., Tuesday, November 10 at the funeral home.