Deborah Carolyn Kee Vines

Published 12:04 pm Monday, July 29, 2024

May 9, 1949 – July 25, 2024

WOODVILLE – Deborah, a lifelong resident of Woodville, was born May 9, 1949. She passed away at her home on July 25, 2024. Services will be held on Saturday, July 27, 2024, at Woodville Baptist Church. Visitation begins at 3 p.m. Funeral Service will follow at 4 p.m. Dr. George Bannister and Bro. Warren Whitaker II will officiate under the direction of Newman

Funeral Home.

Deborah loved her church, Woodville Baptist Church. She was Baptized there as a child and spent joyous years singing in the choir. Her greatest joy was telling others about Jesus and teaching children to sing songs of praise to Him.

Deborah was a devoted and loving wife, mother and grandmother. She was the older child of Carolyn Sessions Kee and Enloe Mays Kee, Jr. She played basketball and graduated from Woodville Attendance Center. Deborah also graduated from Mississippi College with a degree in Elementary Education and was beloved by her students in Natchez and at Wilkinson County Christian Academy for forty years. Thirty-four of those years were spent as a Reading Specialist. Her special gift was meeting the specific needs of individual children. Her friends and fellow teachers described her as caring, devoted and always helpful and supportive of every program at the school.

In addition to her teaching at school, Deborah, from her early teens until recent years taught hundreds of children and adults to swim and water ski. She was, herself, an accomplished barefoot skier.

Deborah was preceded in death by the love of her life and husband of fifty years, James Dennis Vines, Jr., and her parents, Carolyn Sessions Kee and Enloe Mays Kee, Jr.

She is survived by her son, Chadwick James Vines; daughter, Michelle Lyman Vines Didier and her husband, John Daniel Didier, Jr.; grandchildren, Merill Elizabeth Didier and Owen Daniel Didier, and brother, Enloe Mays Kee IIII and his wife, Toni Jones Kee.

Pallbearers are Trey Spinks, Jerome Curo, Wil Seal, Scott Wesberry, Sam Nicholas, Clint McCurley, Wallace Ferguson and Phillip Temples.

Honorary Pallbearers are Dr. David McGraw, Dr. Bob Lewis, Nolan Bland, Emmit Knighton, Dr. Jennings Owens, Mitchell Whitaker, Moose Tolbert, Wettlin Treppendahl and Tim Sessions.

Memorials may be made to Woodville Baptist Church or Wilkinson County Christian Academy.