Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 11, 2018 at the Mount Olive Presbyterian Church in Mount Olive for Mary Grace McNair Herrington, 97 of Mount Olive, who passed away to her Savior Jesus and her eternal home on Wednesday, August 8, 2018 at her residence.

Reverend Joe Gardner will officiate at the services with interment to follow in the Mount Olive Cemetery in Mount Olive with military rites at graveside.  Special music will be provided by Mrs. Mary John Kimbrough.  Billy M. King-Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Collins will be in charge of the arrangements.

Visitation will be held from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 11, 2018 at the Mount Olive Presbyterian Church in Mount Olive.

Pallbearers will be John Bagwell, Matt Dietz, John Larry Sullivan, Joe Warren, Clyde Magee, and Rick Ozment.

Mary Grace was born on November 15, 1920 and grew up during the Great Depression years in the Calvary Community of Smith County, Mississippi.  She served in the Women's Army Corps during World War II hoping to "help the boys."  Perhaps those two events were responsible for the strength and fortitude that characterized her life.  After the war, she married and began a life as a faithful wife and mother supporting and caring for her loved ones in homes in Arkansas, Virginia, Alabama, and Picayune, Mississippi.  Upon retirement, her husband and she moved to Mount Olive.  She was a steadfast member and tireless worker in each of her church homes.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Milton Braxton McNair and Lizzie Ezilla Carr McNair; her husband of sixty-four years, William Blois Herrington; one daughter, Mary Ellen Herrington; and one brother, George Carr McNair.

Survivors include two daughters, Janet Herrington Kelley of Mount Olive, and Nancy Herrington Bagwell, and her husband, Robert W. Bagwell of Eupora; two grandchildren, Lauren Bagwell Dietz, and her husband, Joseph Matthew Dietz of Carrollton, Texas, and John Robert Bagwell, and his wife, Margarita Lopez Bagwell of Austin, Texas; four great-grandchildren, Braxton Matthew Dietz and William Pierce Dietz, both of Carrollton, Texas, and Cairo Cruz Bagwell, and Nash Noah Bagwell, both of Austin, Texas.

The family requests that in lieu of flowers and to benefit and support Mary Grace's beloved missionaries throughout the world, that memorials be made to The Great Commission Fund, Mount Olive Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 148, Mount Olive, Mississippi  39119.

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