Jan. 9, 1924 – June 8, 2016

NATCHEZ — Services for Hannah “Madea” Brown Fleming, 92, of Natchez, who died Wednesday, June 8, 2016, at Charleston Methodist Medical Center in Dallas, will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Jerusalem Baptist Church on Martin Luther King Road with the Rev. Larry Wright officiating. 

Burial will follow at Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Natchez chapel and from 10 a.m. until service time Saturday at the church.

Mrs. Fleming was born Jan. 9, 1924, in Natchez, the daughter of Isom and Josephine Collins Brown.

She was a church mother at Windy Hill Baptist Church No. 2 and at Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church. She loved the Lord, her family and her community.

Mrs. Fleming was a mother to a number of children, not just her own.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Willie “Dee” Fleming; three daughters, Florine Whitlock, Shirley Ann Fleming and Clara Jean Ware; one son, Frederick “Ricky” Fleming; three sisters, Lula Colston, Mattie Hamilton and Marie Brown; six brothers, Jack Brown, Pete Brown, Albert Brown, James Brown, Pearlie Brown and Charles Brown; and one daughter-in-law, Eyvette Hunt Fleming.

Survivors include 10 loving and devoted children, Marshall Fleming and wife, Alma, Betty Jones, Edna Garrett, Linda Tuesno Nealy and husband, Louis, and Eddie Fleming, all of Natchez, Willie Fleming and wife, Eva, Leola Clayborn and husband, the Rev. Raymond Clayborn, and Barbara Williams, all of Desoto, Texas, the Rev. Robert Fleming of Dayton, Ohio, and Mary Ferguson and husband, Charles, of Vidalia; five stepchildren, Theodore Davis of Greenwood, Robert Newman and wife, Rita, and Floyd Newman, all of Natchez, Troy Newman and Yolanda Curtis, of Chicago; special grandchildren she raised as her own, Jerry Whitlock, R.J. Fleming, Adrian Fleming and Erica Garrett; one sister-in-law, Shirley Brown of Roxie; two special nieces-in-law, Geneva Jackson and Florence Bacon of Natchez; and a number of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.