William Magee

Published 12:00 am Friday, November 12, 2010

MENDENHALL — Services for William Wiley Magee, 67, of Mendenhall, who died Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010, at Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, will be at 11 a.m. today at First Baptist Church of Mendenhall.

Burial will follow at Mendenhall City Cemetery under the direction of Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Mendenhall.

Visitation will be from 8 a.m. until service time today at the church.

Mr. Wiley, the oldest child of Bill Robert and Luci Ainsworth Magee, was born and raised in the Merit community of Simpson County. After the death of his parents, he assumed the role of father figure for his four younger siblings. After graduating from Mendenhall High School in 1961, he attended Hinds County College, the University of Southern Mississippi and the Mississippi College School of Law.

Mr. Magee served as county director of Mississippi Department of Public Welfare in Simpson County and was later elected to five consecutive terms as Circuit Clerk of Simpson County.

He was an active member of First Baptist Church of Mendenhall, serving as an ordained deacon, choir member and Sunday school teacher and was actively involved in the youth group.

Mr. Magee served as a Master Mason with Mendenhall Lodge No. 497, a Shriner and was actively involved in Little People of America. He coached T-Ball and Little League baseball. He served in a number of other capacities in Simpson County. He was an avid fisherman and hunter, but most importantly, he was a child of God who instilled a relationship with Christ in his family. He was an amazing husband, wonderful daddy and an awesome Poppy to his grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth Sullivan Magee; one daughter, Lucy Roark and husband, Don; one son, Robert and wife, Aleen; three brothers, Billy Charles, Joe and Paul; one sister, Martha Stubbs; and three grandchildren, Celia Rose Magee, William Sawyer Magee and Avery Grace Roark.

The family requests that memorial donations may be made to the Pulmonary Hypertension Association of America, www.phassociation.org or Mendenhall First Baptist Church Master’s Plan Building Fund.