Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Daisy S. Edwards

Daisy Beasley Edwards, age 88, passed away Monday, February 18, 2019, at Winston Medical Center Nursing Home in Louisville, Mississippi. Visitation will be Wednesday, February 20, from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. at Nowell Massey Funeral Home in Louisville and on the day of the service at the church from 10 a.m. until service time. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Thursday, February 21, at Soul Harbor Pentecostal Church in Shuqualak, Mississippi, with Rev. Gerald Butler officiating. Interment will follow in Cotton Cemetery in Noxubee County.

Daisy was born August 29, 1930, to Lynn and Thelma Ponder Beasley in Noxubee, County. She was a member of Macedonia Methodist Church and a homemaker. She loved outside activities including farming, raising cattle, and gardening.

Daisy is survived by three brothers Paul Beasley of Louisville; Vernon Beasley and wife Mary of Flora, Mississippi; and Lynn Beasley, Jr. also of Louisville; and her beloved dog “Yorkie”; as well as numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. She is preceded in death by two husbands Dewey Swindle and Herbert “Dub” Edwards; her parents; her brother Davis Earl Beasley; and two sisters Murel Rogers and Marie Prisock.

Serving as pallbearers are Darrell Beasley, Ken Beasley, Timothy Beasley, Austin Prisock, Blake Prisock, and T. J. Prisock. Memorials in honor of Daisy may be given to Cotton Cemetery Fund.

Services are under the direction of Nowell Massey Funeral Home, 724 North Columbus Avenue, Louisville, MS. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family by signing the guest register at www.nowellmasseyfuneralhome.com.