Mattie R. Stinespring

July 7, 1921 – Sept. 15, 2007

NATCHEZ — Services for Mattie R. Stinespring, 86, of Natchez, who died Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007, at Natchez Community Hospital, will be 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Laird Funeral Home Union Street Chapel with the Rev. Russell Wagoner officiating.

Burial will follow in Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. until service time Tuesday at Laird Funeral Home.

Mrs. Stinespring was born July 7, 1921, in Delhi, La., the daughter of Cliff Ragsdale and Ima Lee Dow Ragsdale. She was a member of Cliff Temple Baptist Church. She loved cooking, quilting and doing for others.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her stepfather, Edgar Lewis; her husband, Henry Stinespring; her brother, James Lewis; and her son-in-law, Bobby Jones.

Survivors include her daughter Linda Kay Jones of Natchez; granddaughter Tabitha Anna Johnson and husband Shane, both of Natchez; great-grandson Colby A. Johnson of Natchez; sisters Lucille Grantham Day of Natchez; and Ruby Roden of Pensacola, Fla.; brother J.W. Ragsdale of Jackson; sister-in-law Mildred Lewis of Ocala, Fla.; and a number of nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.

Pallbearers will be the deacons of Cliff Temple Baptist Church.

Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association or St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.lairdfh.com.