Date of birth: 23 Oct 1897
Date of death: 14 Aug 1972
Funeral services for Mrs. Lillie Rodgers McLellan, 74, were held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, August 16, from the First Baptist Church with the Reverend Gus Merritt assisted by the Reverend David Pratt of Winona, officiating. Interment was in Odd Fellows Cemetery with Southern Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. McLellan died Monday at the Holmes County Community Hospital where she had been a patient for four days.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Irby Ellington of Lexington; two sons, Bill McLellan and Bob McLellan of Lexington; two brothers, Lorinzo Rodgers of Belzoni and Cunningham Rodgers of Jackson; one sister, Mrs. Herbert Williamson of Meridian and five grandchildren, Miss Lanelle McLellan, Miss Robin McLellan, Miss Lydia McLellan, Billy McLellan, all of Lexington, and Edward Ellington of Jackson; and one great grandson, Will Ellington of Jackson.
Pallbearers were Billy Rodgers, Irby Tate, Earl Tate, R.A. Rodgers, Bob Williamson, L. E. Williamson, Frankie McCrory and Hardy Harris.
The Holmes County Herald (Lexington, Mississippi)
August 17, 1972, vol. 14, no. 33, pg. 4
"Wife of Madison McLellan"
Parents
Robert Calvin Rodgers
1862–1948
Willie Deaton Brown Rodgers
1870–1948
Siblings
Robert Alfred Rodgers
1888–1951
Sally Louise Rodgers Tate
1890–1962
Nettie Victoria Rodgers Truitt
1893–1966
Lee Roy Rodgers
1895–1972
Longino Rodgers
1899–1986
Anzilee Rodgers Williamson
1902–1991
Cunningham H. Rodgers
1905–1984
Spouse
Madison McLellan
1894–1947
Children
Elaine McLellan Ellington
1916–1997
W. R. "Bill" McLellan
1919–1994
Robert Nall "Bob" McLellan
1923–1993
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