Mrs. Mavis “Eileen” Dalbey Nail, 74, died Sunday, July 29, 2012, at Select Specialty Hospital in Jackson, Mississippi. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Thursday, August 2nd, at Porter Funeral Home, with Rev. Mason Joy and Rev. Tommy Jones officiating. Interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be held Wednesday from 5:00 until 8:00 P.M. at the funeral home. Porter Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Nail was born June 5th, 1938 in Mora, Minnesota. She was a homemaker, and a member of East Louisville Baptist Church. She was a former employee and long-time volunteer at the Winston County Library, and a member of D.A.R.
She is survived by her mother, Winnie Obert Dalbey of Newport, Oregon; a daughter, Kathy (Larry Wayne) Tollett of Louisville, Mississippi; two sons, Richard (Melissa) Nail of Terre Haute, Indiana, and Jerry (Sandra) Nail of Starkville, Mississippi; two sisters, Marlys Peasley of Blackduck, Minnesota, and Claudia Peasley of Erhard, Minnesota; one brother, William Dalbey of Toledo, Oregon; and 3 grandchildren, Brandi Tollett, Jacob Nail, and Christopher Nail.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James H. “Jim” Nail, and her father, Glenn Dalbey.
Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, www.stjude.org.
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