Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 22, 2017 at the Billy M. King-Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Collins for Mrs. Ora Bell Speights Boleware, 81 of Florence, who passed away on Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at the Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg.

Brother Gary Meadows will officiate at the services with interment to follow in the Bullock Cemetery in Seminary. Special music will be provided by Mrs. Brenda Meadows, and Mrs. Michelle Meadows. Billy M. King-Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Collins will be in charge of the arrangements.

Visitation will be from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. on Friday, July 21, 2017 at the Billy M. King-Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Collins.

Pallbearers will be Wayne Ellis, Joseph Holifield, Levi Gondreau, Shawn Hicks, Justiin Anderson, and Jeffery Anderson.

Mrs. Boleware was born on November 4, 1935 in Laurel, Mississippi. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and homemaker. Mrs. Boleware was a member of the Pentecostal faith.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Coy E. and Mae Bell Moore Speights; her husband, John Franklin Boleware; one son, Kenneth Boleware; a sister, Merle Norris; and three grandchildren, Travis Johnson, Christopher Taormina, and Christina Boleware.

Survivors include six daughters, Vondale Bounds of Florence, and Theresa Taormina, Debbie Harper, Mary Ann Anderson, Vanessa Gondreau, and Elizabeth Johnson, all of Seminary; three sons, Franklin Boleware and Daniel Boleware, both of Seminary, and Clifford Boleware of Petal; one brother, Johnny Ray Speights of Jackson; nineteen grandchildren; twenty five great-grandchildren; and one great great-grandchild.

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