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Fannie Topscott          Mary Ella Trent

Mary Ella Trent

Funeral services for Mary Ella Trent 89, of Bay City, will be held Saturday June 17, 2000 at 11 a.m. at Jesus Freewill Holiness Church with Bishop John Johnson pastor and Elder Lester Colter officiating. Burial will follow at East View Cemetery in Bay City. Mrs. Trent will lie in state at the church Saturday morning from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Visitation will be Friday afternoon until 9 p.m. Family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. in the chapel at Green's. She was born June 30, 1910 to the union of Sam Henderson Polk and Doshia Ann Gray Polk in Lowita, Oklahoma. She passed away Tuesday, June 13, 2000 at the Bay Villa Nursing Home.

Survivors are two nephews Henderson Polk and Edna of Bay City, Billie Polk and Cherrie of Live Oak, Texas; four nieces, Dorothy Mae Nelson, Ella Mae Harris and Bertina Walker of Houston, and Lois Harris of Detroit Michigan; god daughter Debra William of Inkster, Michigan. She raised Shelia Johnson of Houston, and a host of nieces and nephews and other relatives and friends. Her son A. D. Johnson, Jr.; sister Fannie Tapscott and brother James Polk preceded her in death.

Active pallbearers are: James Polk, Lester Polk, Chavis Wilcox, Warren Polk, Herbert Lee Polk, and Michael Dawson. Honorary pallbearers are Henderson Polk, Sr. and Billie Polk. Green's Motruary is in charge of the arrangements.

THE DAILY TRIBUNE, Friday, June 16, 2000 
 

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