Date of birth: 30 Oct 1890
Date of death: 20 Nov 1983

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Burial Information

Section 01 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0637-03
Status: Occupied

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Notes

Birth: 30 Oct 1890 - Sand Hill Community, Holmes Co., MS
Death: 20 Nov 1983 - Holmes Co., MS

Obituary
Leni Leoti Grantham
Funeral services for Mrs. Leni Leoti (Grantham) Grantham were held on Monday, November 21 at 2:00 p.m. from the Southern Funeral Home chapel in Lexington. Rev. C.A. Dickerson, assisted by Rev. Wayne Hudson, officiated. Interment followed in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Lexington. The Rev. Wade Rogers led in prayer at the graveside.

Mrs. Grantham, 93, was a native of the Sand Hill Community where she was a homemaker and a member of Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church. She died at her home on Sunday, Nov. 20 after an extended illness. She was the widow of Rufus Ramzy [Amzy] Grantham.

Mrs. Grantham is survived by one son, Melvin (Bo) Grantham of Lexington; three daughters, Clara G. Pace of Lexington and Frances Pickering and Earline Pickering, both of Taylorville; seven grandchildren; thirteen great-grandchildren: and one great-great grandchild.

Pallbearers were Virgil Ingold, Mack Grantham, Pete Hager, Bill Rainer, John W. Self and Hayes Grantham.

The Holmes County Herald, Page 2
Lexington, MS
November 24, 1983

Family Relations of Leni Leoti Grantham Grantham

Parents:
Otho G. Grantham, Sr.
Frances Roberts Tate Grantham

Siblings:
Katie Grantham Tate
Edwin Grantham
Gertrude E. Rhyne
Joseph Grantham
Lummie Grantham Long
Virginia Grantham Truitt
Ellen Grantham
Lyda Grantham
Harry Grantham
Leni Leoti Grantham Grantham

Half Sibling(s):
Benjamin "Byron" Grantham
Daniel Grantham
Otho G. Grantham, Jr.
Sam Grantham

Spouse:
Rufus Amzy Grantham

Children:
Clara McNeer Grantham Pace
Frances Grantham Pickering
Earlene Grantham Pickering
Rufus Melvin Grantham
James Irby Grantham
Agnes Grantham Johnson

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