Willie Mae Green

Published 12:00 am Friday, February 24, 2012

Nov. 29, 1926 – Feb. 19, 2012

FERRIDAY — Services for Willie Mae Green, 85, of Vidalia, who died Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012, at Promise Hospital in Vidalia, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Mount Beulah Baptist Church in Ferriday with the Rev. Chris Robinson officiating.

Burial will follow at Mount Mariah Cemetery in Ferriday under the direction of Concordia Funeral Home in Ferriday.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Mrs. Green was born Nov. 29, 1926, in Lismore, La., the daughter of Edward and Pinkey James. She was a homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Warren Green.

Survivors include three sons, Lonnie Green, Ronnie and Green Maalik Green and wife, Jessica, all of Ferriday; seven daughters, Khalidah Uwake of Oakland, Calif., Ethel “Nita” Stepney and husband, Joe, Lucille Wells, Kathy green, all of Ferriday, Samirah Jamka and husband, Greg, of Chicago, Maryam Salahuddin of Los Angeles, and LaSandra Holt and husband, Alfred, of Vidalia; two sisters, Ella Reed and Josie Benson, both of Chicago; 37 grandchildren; 57 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; and a number of nieces, nephews and cousins.

Online condolences may be sent to www.concordiafuneralhomeinc.com.