Sara Frances Calvert Lee

Sara Frances Calvert Lee

Services for Sara Frances Calvert Lee will be held Thursday, March 17, 2016, at 1:00 p.m. in the chapel of Robert Barham Family Funeral Home. Visitation will be 1 hour prior to the service.

Mrs. Lee passed away peacefully on March 15 at her home.

She was born December 30, 1921, in Rio, Mississippi. She had just celebrated her 94th birthday of which she was very proud and thankful. She attended and graduated high school in Collinsville, MS and was a star basketball player, making the All Star team and All State Team. Mrs. Lee was a stay-at-home Mom until her youngest was in school. She then joined the “working force”. Her career began at the Lauderdale County Court House in the tax collector/sheriff’s office and after working under several sheriffs, she moved to the Circuit Clerk’s office. Her career ended in the Circuit Court as a deputy clerk under Judge Lester Williamson, whom she greatly admired. She retired, after 25 plus years, in 1985. Employees at the Court House affectionately joked with her about her name and requested cakes be brought to work. She obliged them many times. Mrs. Lee was a member of Zion Baptist Church in Rio, MS.

Mrs. Lee is survived by her three daughters and sons-in-law, Sandra and Bill Barber, Collinsville, Sharon and Jerry Myers, Causeyville, Kathy and Chet Harwell, Meridian; Grandchildren, Dennis Green of Springfield, Missouri, Tricia Vaughn (Greg) and Tiffany  Bohl (Johnny) all of Collinsville, and Angela Cross, Huntington, Texas; Great-Grandchildren, Madison Overby, Makenzie Bohl and Brooks Bohl, all of Collinsville, Hannah Mathis, Jennah Mathis and Steven Cross, all of Texas; Great-Great grandsons, Rylan, Wesson, and Branton; Step-Granddaughter, Bailey Vaughn; Special friend and caregiver, Pam Walk; many nieces and nephews; and her granddogs, Roadie, Abby, Sophie, and Shadow.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Maxwell D. “Max” Lee; her parents, Austin Odell Calvert and Nola McKee Calvert; her sister, Mary Pruitt; her brother, Austin Odell “Bubba” Calvert, Jr., and her granddaughter, Julie Barber.

Pallbearers will be Greg Vaughn, Johnny Bohl, Dwayne Overby, Ozett Pruitt, Si dney Griffin, and Dale Nicholas.

Honorary pallbearers will be Danny Luke and B.L. Morland.

Burial will be in the Pine Grove Cemetery, Martin, Mississippi, with Robert Barham Family Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements.

Mother, we will greatly miss you and your love, but we know you are now rejoicing with the love of your life, your high school sweetheart, Our Daddy! We love you!

Family and friends may sign the online guestbook at robertbarhamffh.com.