Obituary of Mary Elizabeth Hutchins

Mary Elizabeth Hutchins

Brandon, MS

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Hutchins 85, of Brandon, MS was called home to be with the Lord on August 21, 2017.  Visitation will be Thursday, August 24, 2017 at Natchez Trace Funeral Home from 10-11:00 A.M. with a Celebration of Life Services following at 11:00 A.M.  Burial will be at Natchez Trace Memorial Park Cemetery located at 759 Hwy 51, Madison, MS

Mary Elizabeth was born December 26, 1931 to Louie and Ola Evans McLemore in Philadelphia, MS, where she grew up and attended school. She went on to cosmetology school and became a license cosmologist. She owned and operated Stevens Barber Shop in Philadelphia, MS with her late husband, Norman Stevens. Mary Elizabeth loved people and she never met a stranger. She was an avid reader and she also was a sales manager for many years at a bookstore. She was such a wonderful lady who had a nurturing persona about herself. After retirement, she spent her days surrounded by her family and was absolutely adored by her grandchildren, great grands and great-great grands. More than anything else, Mary Elizabeth was a good woman who knew and loved the Lord and her family. 

She is preceded in death by her loving husband of 28 years, Milton Hutchins, her parents, James Louie and Ola McLemore, sons, David Sisson and Richard Sisson, daughter in law, Nina Sisson, sisters, Linda Rush, Beatrice Muth, and Edith Breedlove, brothers J.L. McLemore Jr. and Rudolph Valentino McLemore.

She is survived by her daughter, Delores Jean Stevens of Brandon, MS, sons, Rayburn Sisson of Pearl, MS, Keith Stevens and his wife Debbie of Pearl, MS, sisters, Alice Bradshaw of Pearl, MS, Evelyn Gibbs of Raymond, MS., thirteen grandchildren, Anthony Sisson and his wife Jackie of Monroe, LA, Jennifer Roberson of Pearl, MS, Neil Franklin and his wife Doll of Brandon, MS, Jason Franklin of Pelahatchie, MS, Joshua Moore of Mobile, AL, Cassie Dedmon and her husband Christian of Brandon, MS, Cheyenne Harris of Brandon, MS, Jill McCool and her husband Mark of Pearl, MS, Brent Stevens and his wife Kim of Brandon, MS, Blake Stevens and his wife Cassidy of Brandon, MS, Tobi Fulcher and her husband Thomas of Madison, MS, Jesika Stuart of Statesboro, GA, and J.T. Sisson of Braxton, MS, twenty four great- grandchildren, Emma Sisson, Michael and Brandon Roberson, Michael Franklin, Dalton and Dillion Lara, Drew, Kori, Jordan, and Lindsay Franklin, Mylee Mangum and Peyton Elizabeth Dedmon, Landon Gregory, Anna Grace, Brayden, and Brody McCool, Dawson and Sawyer Stevens, Cash Laxer, Colton and Stone Stevens, Drew Miller, Edie and Jackson Stuart and two great great grandchildren, Cooper and Maverick Robertson.

In Lieu of flowers the family wishes all donations be made to the American Lung Association.