Lucille Sanders Pierce

Lucille Sanders Pierce, 87, of Hornsby, passed away Thursday, August 13, 2015, at the Jackson-Madison County General Hospital.
The widow of William Barney Pierce, Jr. who died on July 13, 1995 after 48 years of marriage, she was a retired machine operator at Levi Strauss and had also worked at Master Trouser and Kilgore. She was born November 11, 1927, in Bolivar, daughter of the late William McKinley Sanders and Mary Myrtle Cox Sanders and had lived her whole life in the Hornsby area. She loved gardening and canning the produce she grew, needlepointing and cooking. Her greatest joy came from being around her family and spending time with her grandchildren and great grandchildren. The light of her life was her great grandson, William Bryce Pierce. She was a faithful member of Hatchie Baptist Church where she was a former Sunday School teacher and Vacation Bible School worker.

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