Paula Ross Davenport

Funeral services for Paula Ross Davenport, 77, are to be held on Sunday, March 2 in the Ardis T. Williams Auditorium. The service will be at 1 p.m. with the Reverend Adrian Clark officiating. Interment shall follow in the Cedar Hill Cemetery under the direction of W. H. Jefferson Funeral Home.  Visitation will be held on Saturday March 1 in the funeral home from 5 to 6 p.m. 

Paula Ross Davenport went to be with the Lord on Tuesday February 18 following a brief illness. She worked at All Saints Episcopal School and attended Mt. Olive Baptist Church.

Davenport was preceded in death by her parents Fred G Rader and Theresa Tovan Rader, her husband Johnny Davenport, her son Ronald Ross, her daughters Paula Ross and Pamela Ross, her brother Freddie Rader, and her sisters Margaret Slaughter, Lydia Jones, Barbara Rader and Susan Tovan.

She is survived by her 2 sons Johnny Ross and Alfred Ross both of Vicksburg,  her 3 daughters Patricia Ross and Dianna Ross Watson both of Vicksburg and Lori Williams of Utica, MS  her 2 brothers David Rader and Jack Rader both of Vicksburg, her sisters Marie Jones of Vicksburg and Juanita Hollins of Eagle Lake, MS 38 grandchildren, 51 great grandchildren, and 7 great great grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and others