VIDALIA- Services for Mary Quitman Custer, 36, of New Orleans, who died Sunday, Oct. 26, 2008, at her residence, will be at 11 a.m., Friday at Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, in Vidalia, with the Rev. Jim Benbrook officiating.
Burial will follow at Natchez City Cemetery under the direction of Laird Funeral Home.
Visitation will be 10 a.m. until service time Friday at the church.
Miss Custer was born April 4, 1972, in Memphis, Tenn., the daughter of Charles Joseph Custer IV and Mary Pat Coley Custer. She attended The Hutchinson School in Memphis and graduated from Charles Darwin School in the United Kingdom. She was elected to “Who’s Who” in American Schools and was a graduate of S.W. Community College in Memphis. Mary was widely traveled throughout Europe, residing in Italy, the Canary Islands, and the United Kingdom for a period of time.
She was employed by Cosse & Cosse Law Firm of New Orleans.
Miss Custer is preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, Charles J. Custer III and Laura Green Lott Custer; and maternal grandfather, Thomas “Pat” Quitman Coley.
Survivors include her father and stepmother, Charles Joseph Custer IV and Judith R. Custer, both of New Orleans; her mother, Mary Pat Coley Custer of Germantown, Tenn.; maternal grandmother, Macie Hamblin Coley of Tupelo; two sisters, Amanda Custer Albert of New Orleans and Cynthia Custer Gangwish of Olive Branch; two aunts, Ellen Custer Huey of Monroe and Elizabeth Vance Custer of Natchez; and three cousins, Edna West Block of Huntsville, Ala., Walter Dawkins of Birmingham, Ala., and Laura Dawkins of Nashville, Tenn.
Pallbearers will be Todd Gangwish, Richard Albert, Markley Huey, Walter Dawkins, Dick Wall and C. G. Melville.
Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Walter Dawkins, Bernard Wood, Donnie Richie, Ben Hennington, Joey Lunetto, Jimmy Hamblin and Bill Peale
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 806 Concordia Ave., Vidalia, LA 71373 or the Louisiana SPCA, 1700 Mardi Gras Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70114
Online condolences may be sent to www.lairdfh.com.