Dellar Terrell

DELLAR TERRELL, age 97, born to the union of Jim and Margie Artis Bell in Sumter County; Alabama transitioned peacefully surrounded by loved ones at her Toomsuba, Mississippi residence on September 11, 2020. Graveside Service of Memory and Life Celebration is slated for Saturday, September 19, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. in Cagus Cemetery, Kinterbish Road 10, Cuba, Alabama. Rev. James Granger, (pastor of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, 1000 Old Highway 11, Cuba, Alabama) will deliver the eulogy and offer words of comfort and consolation. The Family's private viewing is Friday, September 18, 2020 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. with public visitation from 4-6:00 p.m. in the Weatherly Chapel. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, niece, cousin, aunt and friend. Sister Terrell worked many years as a loving house wife/home maker caring for her family and as a neighborhood babysitter for others. She was very good at it as she raised her children as well as many more. Sister Dellar Terrell was a faithful and loyal member of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church until her health failed. She is preceded in death by her husband, Russell Terrell, her parents, plus she was the last one surviving out of thirteen (13) siblings. She is further preceded by four sons; Johnny, Tommy, Albert and Elbert Terrell, her brother Earnest Lee Bell, who passed June 9, 2020, and also one special niece, Sarah Singleton. Those who remain to cherish her memories and to celebrate a life of love and longevity are: four wonderful daughters; Margie Terrell, Toomsuba, MS., Geraldine (the late MC “June Bug”) McVay, Cuba, Alabama, Patricia (Johnny) Barney, Toomsuba, MS., and Gloria (Willie) McVay, also of Cuba, AL; three sons; Bobby Lee (the late Earnestine) Terrell, Eutaw, AL., Don Terrell, Toomsuba, MS., and James (Ina Nicole)Terrell of Wiesbaden, Germany; two daughters-in-law, Justine (Tommy) Terrell, Toomsuba, MS., and Margaret (Johnny) Terrell of Lake Charles, La; thirty four (34) grandchildren; seventy-five (75) great grandchildren and thirty (30) great, great grandchildren. She also leaves a host of sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends who truly loved her and whom she also truly loved. Surely Sister Terrell will be missed. To the entire Terrell Family, we at Weatherly Funeral Home, offer to each of you our most sincere and heartfelt sympathy and condolences. Our prayer continues to be that your abiding faith in God will lend a measure of comfort to strengthen and sustain you during your most profound time of sorrow. Compassionate services rendered under the direction of Jacqueline S. Weatherly, Thomas and Marla W. Jackson.