Berrien County GaArchives Obituaries.....Powell, Oppie Lee Hancock October 23, 2009 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Shirley McMillan Durden http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006039 November 29, 2012, 7:32 pm The Berrien Press - October 28, 2009 Oppie Lee Powell, 99, of Nashville died October 23, 2009, at Baptist Village. Born May 6, 1910, in Berrien County to the late John D. and Georgia Futch Hancock, she was a homemaker and a retired clerk with the Berrien County Health Department. She was a member of Nashville Progressive Primitive Baptist Church and Order of the Eastern Star. She was married to Hubert Powell, who died in 1946. Survivors include two sons and one daughter-in-law, Donald and Sue Powell, and Earl Powell, all of Nashville; one sister, Kathleen Harris of Nashville; five grandchildren, Brian Powell, Stacey Powell, Chad (Angie) Powell, Eric Powell, Neva (Bill) McPherson; great-grandchildren, Courtney Powell, Alexis Powell, Jessie Powell. She was preceded in death by five brothers, Wilbur, Foster, Paul, Hobson and Harry Hancock. Funeral services were held October 26 at 11 a.m. in the chapel of Lovein Funeral Home with Elder Robert Conner and Rev. Stanley Luke presiding. "Amazing Grace" and "How Great Thou Art" were played on CD. Interment was in Westview Cemetery. Active pallbearers were Flynt Powell, Bill McPherson, Brian Powell, Chad Powell, Eric Powell, Rodney Hancock. Honorary pallbearers were Gin Hackett, Bernice Rogers, Nell Dorminey, Jean Dickson, Joyce Flanders, Lillian Moore, Louve Pafford, Opal Joiner, Jean Bennett, Jo Ann McGill, Zelma Conner. Lovein Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/berrien/obits/p/powell2774nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb