Elaine Hembree Sullivan

(April 23, 1929 – August 7, 2021)

Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, August 13, 2021, at Mount Olive Presbyterian Church in Mount Olive for Elaine Hembree Sullivan, 92 of Mount Olive, who passed away on Saturday, August 7, 2021, at the Covington County Hospital in Collins, Mississippi.

Reverend Joe Gardner and Reverend Dewitt Bain will officiate at the services with interment to follow in the McNair Cemetery in Mount Olive, Mississippi.  Billy M. King-Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Collins will be in charge of the arrangements.

Visitation will be held from 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. on Friday, August 13, 2021, at Mount Olive Presbyterian Church.

Oneva Elaine Hembree Sullivan was born April 23, 1929 in Petal, Mississippi and went to be with her Lord and Savior on August 7, 2021. She was the daughter of James Quincy and Nannie Bain Hembree. She grew up in Mount Olive, Mississippi where she graduated from Mount Olive High School in April, 1947. She was the valedictorian and president of her senior class and she was a proud cheer leader for Mount Olive.

She received a Bachelor of Science degree and Masters in Business Administration from the University of Southern Mississippi. She lived in Natchez, Mississippi for 46 years where she was employed by International Paper Company and United Mississippi Bank.

After retirement, she worked for 9 years as a part-time librarian at the Mount Olive Library. She retired in 1973.

She was married 3 times (to Marion Francis Marshall, III, Allen Tutt Lack, and Archie Elery Sullivan) all of whom preceded her in death.

She is survived by her nieces; Aimee Hively, Dianne Wetherbee, Mary Jewell, Nancy Roberts, Margaret Hembree, and Carolyn Lazaro. Stepsons John and Tim Sullivan.  She is also survived by special friends John and Barbara Campbell, Mary John Kimbrough, Nancy Ross, Virginia Sanford, and Doris Bounds and cousins Bobbie Jean Ray, and Nelda Brady.

Family and friends may sign an online guestbook at www.billymkingcolonialchapel.com