Thelma Baker Angelethy

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, December 4, 2012

June 9, 1931 – Nov. 29, 2012

NATCHEZ — Services for Thelma Baker Angelethy, 81, of Natchez, who died Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, at her residence, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Rose Hill Baptist Church with the Rev. Kenneth Stanton officiating.

Burial will follow at the Natchez City Cemetery under the direction of Robert D. Mackel and Sons Funeral Home.

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Visitation will be from 1 to 7 p.m. today with the Links and Eastern Star Rites from 5 to 6 p.m., and from 10 a.m. until service Wednesday, all at the church.

Mrs. Angelethy was born June 9, 1931, in Waterproof, the daughter of William Baker and Caroline Robinson Price Baker. She was a nurse’s aide at the former Charity Hospital and Jefferson Davis Hospital.

Mrs. Angelethy was an entrepreneur, having owned and operated Briggette’s Resale Shop for a number of years. She was a member of the Natchez Chapter of Links and the Adah, Lucy Barnes Chapter No. 16 O.E.S.

Mrs. Angelethy was preceded in death by her parents; one daughter, Sandra Brooks; and one sister, Mary Fleming.

Survivors include her husband, Ollie Angelethy; two daughters, Brenda Brooks Holmes and husband, Larry, of Natchez and Carmen “Connie” Brooks O’Neil and husband, James, of Lorman; two sons, Cedric Angelethy and wife, Kimberly, of Natchez and Ollie Angelethy III of Pearl; 11 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; one sister, Willie Lee Frazier of Natchez; and a number of other relatives and friends.