NATCHEZ – Private graveside family services for Margaret Irene Kelly Wall, 79, of Natchez and Baton Rouge, who died Wednesday, April 27, 2016, at her home in Baton Rouge following a yearlong battle with cancer, will be in the Natchez City Cemetery.

Mrs. Wall was born Nov. 1, 1936, in Natchez to Herbert Leland Kelly and Jessie Holmes Kelly.

She lived all except the last year of her life in Natchez.

Mrs. Wall attended Natchez High School and as a young woman worked at WNAT radio station and later at WMIS radio station in bookkeeping and sales.

After a number of years as a homemaker, Mrs. Wall returned to work as a bookkeeper at Allgood Business Machines in Natchez.

She was active for many years with Dixie Youth Baseball and operated the league’s concession stands while her sons played ball in Duncan Park. She enjoyed visiting with her children, grandchildren and great-grandson, shopping for perfume and anything that sparkled, listening to Frank Sinatra and watching her favorite movie, “Lonesome Dove.”

Mrs. Wall was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, William J. “Bill” Wall, who died in 1994, and two brothers, Charles H. Kelley and George L. Shillak.

Survivors include her five children; three daughters, Terry Griffey of Baton Rouge, Jan Griffey of Vicksburg and Anna Wall Amos and her husband, Angelo, of Baton Rouge; two sons, James G. “Bubba” Griffey and his wife, Anita, of St. Francisville, La., and William Charles Kelly Wall of Baton Rouge, with whom she lived; two stepchildren, Alan Wall of Austin, Texas, and Suzanne Wall Joffrion of Houston; 10 grandchildren, Amie Stutzman McNaylor and her husband, Robert, of Baton Rouge, John Wesley Griffey of Zachary, La., Richard Williams, Phillip Williams and Kathaleen Griffey of St. Francisville, Jeffrey Clark, Anna Katherine Clark, Joseph Wall, Abby Wall and Maggie Wall, all of Baton Rouge; and one great-grandchild, Finnan Bruce McNaylor of Baton Rouge.

Donations in her memory may be made to the Natchez-Adams Humane Society or to the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.