Mrs. Mattie Mabelle Dunn died Monday, April 21, at Simpson General Hospital. She was 62. She was a retired nurses aid.
Funeral services were held Tuesday, April 22, at Upton Funeral Home with Rev. Theo Wright and Rev. Bob Ivy officiating. Interment followed at Mendenhall Cemetery.
She is survived by a brother, Rev. E. J. Walker, Mendenhall; a sister, Mrs. Mary Ellen Hays, Mt. Olive; two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Ida Mae Walker and Mrs. Lucille Walker, both of Mendenhall, and a brother-in-law, Bill Hays, Mt. Olive.
Source: The Magee Courier, 24 Apr 1975, Thu, Page 7
"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLR-8LCY : 13 December 2015), Mattie Mae Dunn, 1975; Burial, Mendenhall, Simpson, Mississippi, United States of America, Mendenhall City Cemetery; citing record ID 101324857, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JL8V-YY3 : 20 May 2014), Mattie Dunn, Apr 1975; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBST-HXT : accessed 23 May 2018), Mattie Dunn in household of Hiram Dunn, Beat 2, Pike, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 57-6, sheet 34B, line 59, family 665, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2058.
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X9MC-R18 : accessed 23 May 2018), Mettie Walker in household of Maggie Walker, Mendenhall, Simpson, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 2, sheet 1A, line 18, family 5, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1165; FHL microfilm 2,340,900.
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNTF-JTF : accessed 23 May 2018), Mattie M Walker in household of Margret Walker, Mendenhall, Simpson, Mississippi, United States; citing ED 133, sheet 1A, line 4, family 1, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 893; FHL microfilm 1,820,893.
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