Loyce McManus Harper

Published 12:01 am Friday, September 12, 2014

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Oct. 3, 1922 – Sept. 11, 2014

WINNSBORO — Services for Loyce McManus Harper, 91, of Natchez, who died Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014, at Natchez Community Hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Mulhearn Funeral Home in Winnsboro with the Rev. Jimmy Harper officiating.

Burial will follow in the family plot at the Crowville Masonic Cemetery in Crowville, La., under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until service time Saturday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Harper was born Oct. 3, 1922, in Crowville, La., the daughter of Claude and Jessie Mae Ferguson McManus.

She retired from Mississippi Valley Gas Company in 1985 after 23 years of faithful service. She thereafter lived a full and independent life.

Mrs. Harper was preceded in death by her loving husband of 58 years, Arther A. Harper; her parents; one brother, Troy McManus; one sister, Florice Turnage; and one grandson, Rex Smith Jr.

Survivors include one son, George Sharon Harper and wife, Janice, of Vancleave; one daughter, Sandra Beth Smith of Natchez; one brother, Earl Wayne McManus of Vidalia; four grandchildren, Sharon Kay Harper McGahee and husband, Vince, of Kemah, Texas; Kim Harper Agney and husband, Eric, of Robertsdale, Ala., Melanie Loyce Long and husband, Dr. Jeffery Long of Manhattan, Kan., and Arthur Dudley Smith and wife, Carrie, of Paris, Tenn.; seven great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; special nieces and nephews; and one brother-in-law, Hollis Harper of Denham Springs, La.

Pallbearers will be nephews.

The family extends a heartfelt thanks to Dr. Keiper, Dr. Akinwale, the nurses, especially the ICU nurses, at Natchez Community Hospital who provided such compassionate care for our mother in her illness.

Online condolences may be sent to mulhearnfuneralhome.com.