Leroy Wilson

Published 12:00 am Sunday, May 31, 2009

HARRISON — Services for Leroy Wilson, 82, of Natchez, who died Sunday, May 27, 2009, at his residence, will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Greenleaf Baptist Church with the Rev. Percy Turner officiating.

Burial will follow in the church cemetery under the direction of George F. West Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until service time Monday at the church.

Mr. Wilson was born April 16, 1928, in Jefferson County, the son of Johnny Wilson and Laura Payton.

He was a retired welder, retired from construction and a member of Greenleaf Baptist Church.

Mr. Wilson was preceded in death by his parents and 10 children.

Survivors include a devoted wife, Princess B. Wilson; nine daugthers, Anna W. Garrison Covington, Katherine W. Davis, Evangeline Green, Margaret, Denise, Brandy and Brittany Wilson, Carol Robinson and Linda Butler, all of New Orleans; six sons, Jimmy, Randy and Leonard Reff, Randy and Bobby Butler, all of New Orleans and Bobby Wilson of Los Angeles; four step-children, Helen Ford, Beatrice Morgan and Henry Morgan Jr., all of Natchez and Yolanda Speed of Fresno, Calif.; two sisters, Celia M. Littleton of Fayette and Mariah Redom of Jackson; two brothers, John Jr. and Herman Wilson, both of Fayette; a special niece, Ruby Washington of Fayette; 32 grandchildren; seven step-grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren; and a number of nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.

Pallbearers will be his grandsons and nephews.