Sylvia Ann Duett

Graveside services for Sylvia Ann Duett were held Saturday, January 16, 2021 at 2 p.m. from Hester (Smith Chapel) Cemetery. McClain-Hays was in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Duett, 86, died Tuesday, January 12, 2021.

Sylvia Ann Duett was born to Frank Ernest and Genora “Nora” Chisolm on August 14, 1934 in Neshoba County. She worked for South Central Bell and as a switchboard operator for MS Baptist Medical Center for many years. She lived most of her adult life in Jackson, MS and moved to Vicksburg, MS where she was a member of Bowmar Avenue Baptist Church.

She is survived by daughters, Melissa Bordelon and Michele Bell; sister, Weymouth Tarver; four grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Duett was preceded in death by husbands, Joe Watson and Jerry Duett; step-father, Jim Farish Price; brothers, William Frank, Kenneth Wilbur, Charles Malcolm and Walter Darrell Chisolm.