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July 10, 1916 – June 20, 2015

NATCHEZ — Services for Mildred Winston Seab Ezell, 99, who died Saturday, June 20, 2015, in Gaithersburg, Md., will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 162 Lower Woodville Road in Natchez.

The cause of death was, as she put it, “old age, I’m going on 100.”

Burial will follow at the Natchez City Cemetery under the direction of Laird Funeral Home.

Visitation will be at 1 p.m. until service time Wednesday at the church.

Mrs. Ezell was a devoted mother and church member. She became an avid genealogist for almost 60 years. She transitioned from copying records by hand and carbon paper copies to using a computer at age 70. She authored more than 15 books on her personal family history and chapters in books compiled by other historians. At 99 plus 10 days, she was still a historian extraordinaire.

Mrs. Ezell was preceded in death by her parents, Charles Patrick Seab and Margaret Overton Watson Seab of Vidalia; her twin brother, Lt. Col. Malcomb William Seab, U.S. Air Force; one brother, Col. James Augustus Seab, U.S. Army; and one sister, Dorothy Mae Seab Ward of Natchez.

Survivors include one daughter, Dr. Margaret Prather Ezell of Germantown, Md.; two nieces, Pat Ward Junkin of Natchez and Susan Ezell Bowser of Columbia, Md.; and four nephews, Dr. James Augustus Seab Jr., of Rochester, N.Y., John Christopher Seab of Columbus, Ohio, Joseph Phillip Seab of San Francisco and Charles Greg Seab of New Orleans.

Online condolences may be sent to lairdfh.com.