Tazewell County, Virginia
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Obituaries
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Mary Hazel Gillespie Puckett

Bluefield Daily Telegraph

05 April 2001

Submitted by:  Janet Prior
 
 
 
Mary Hazel Gillespie Puckett, 98, of Route 3 (Gratton), Tazewell, was called home to be with her Savior Tuesday, April 3, 2001 following a short illness.
Born March 19, 1903 at Gratton in Tazewell County, VA, she was a daughter of the late James Floyd and Belzora Alice Leffel Gillespie.
Mary was one of two surviving Daughters of the Confederacy in Virginia.  Her father was a veteran of the Civil War.  She was a homemaker and a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints for the past 36 years.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Jesse Howard Puckett; a son, Alvin Warren "Dink" Puckett; a sister, Bertha McKinley "Ted" Gillespie; a brother, Roscoe Hale Gillespie; 13 half brothers and sisters.
She was affectionately know by many a "Granny Puckett" and leaves behind a large posterity; two sons, Howard M. Puckett and wife, Gloria of Liberty Hill, Texas and James N. Puckett and wife, Peggy of Clarksville, Teen.; two daughters, Alice P. Huey of the home and Mary Ellen Simmons and husband, Ben of Gratton; 21 grandchildren, 50 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren; her two "special" boys, Bruce Bourne of Gratton and Thomas Call of Monroe, N.C.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at Peery & St. Clair Funeral Home Chapel in Tazewell with Bishop George Graham officiating.  Burial will follow at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Gratton.