Sister Rosie Lee Boles

Funeral services for Sister Rosie Lee Boles will be held on Thursday, September 26, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. at The Evangel Temple. Pastors Mike Boles, Kim Culpepper, and Ronnie Boles will officiate the service. Burial will be held at Forest Lawn Memory Gardens. Robert Barham Family Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements.

Mrs. Boles, 89, died September 24th, 2019 peacefully at her home in Meridian.
She leaves behind two sisters, Mary Boles and Vergie Johnson; daughter and spouse Cathy
Culpepper (Kim); son, Rev. Mike Boles (Debbie); grandsons Dusty Culpepper (Tori), Jonathan.
Boles (Kylie), Daniel Boles (Julie), Jared Culpepper (Brandy), 12 great-grandchildren and
numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her father Lee S. Drachenberg; mother, Gertrude Drachenberg;
brother Richard Drachenberg;and husband,  Rev. Melvin Boles.

Born in Houston, Texas, “Sister Rosie”, as most would know her, was devoted to the spreading
of the Gospel from her early years. She would travel with her family as a young girl to churches
and conventions with her father, then tent revivals with her husband, Rev. Melvin Boles, after
they married. She saw her husband’s ministry grow from South Side Tabernacle to the Tuxedo
area where the ministry became “The Evangel Temple”, to the current location, now south of
Meridian. She has faithfully supported her son, Pastor Mike’s, ministry for the past twenty years.
Rosie Boles was the Prayer Warrior of prayer warriors. She founded the Ladies’ Prayer Group
in the late 1970’s at the Evangel Temple that still meets today. Her legacy of faith has touched
thousands throughout the years.

The family wishes to say a special thank you to Hollie Kidd and Southern Care Hospice for their
love and care.

The family has asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Evangel Temple Church.

The family will receive friends from 12:00 p.m. until service time at the church.