Cora Ellal Hoye

Published 12:00 am Friday, March 23, 2012

May 26, 1939 – March 18, 2012

NATCHEZ — Services for Cora Ella Hoye, 72, of Natchez, who died Sunday, March 18, 2012, at Natchez Community Hospital, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Prys Temple Baptist Church with the Rev. Lonnie Culbert officiating.

Burial will follow at the church cemetery under the direction of Bateaste Memorial Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home and from 10 a.m. until service time Saturday at the church.

Mrs. Hoye was born May 26, 1939, in Adams County, the daughter of Chris Dean and Matilela Dean. She attended Adams County public schools and was a homemaker.

Mrs. Hoye was a member of Prys Temple Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two sons, Charles Edward Hoye and Brian Keith Hoye; one sister, Ella D. Monroe; and one brother, Cornelius White.

Survivors include four sons, James Dean, Frankie Hoye, Curtis Hoye and Michael Hoye; two daughters, Brenda Hoye and Jacqueline Hoye; one brother, Chris Thomas; one sister, Bernice Smith, all of Natchez; and a special caregiver, Brenda Tuesco.

Pallbearers will be friends and family.