Funeral services for Josie Ann Day Summers will be on Tuesday, February 25, 2020, at Brookhaven Funeral Home (894 Natchez Drive) in Brookhaven, MS, at 2:00 PM with burial to follow in the Bethshan Cemetery in Monticello, MS. Bro. ( ) will be officiating the services with Brookhaven Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Visitation will be at Brookhaven Funeral Home on Tuesday, February 25, 2020, from 1:00 PM until 2:00 PM.

Mrs. Summers, 86, of Brookhaven, MS, passed from this life on Thursday, February 20, 2020, in Ooltewah TN. She was born in Baker, Louisiana on December 17, 1933 to Eldred Day and Dessie King Day. She attended LSU and went on to Asbury Seminary for a Masters of Religious Education. Josie attended the Methodist Protestant Church and served as a missionary, teaching in an Indian Reservation in Farmington, NM and also for 5 years in what is now Belize, Central America. Josie came to Brookhaven to teach at Whitworth College. She met M.L. Summers and they married in 1967, then they made their home in the Mt. Moriah Community.

Preceding her in death was her parents, Eldred and Dessie Day.

Josie is survived by her sister, Marlene Day Renfroe of Brandon, MS; her stepchildren, Janet Summers Bentley and Larry of Princeton, TX and Randy Summers and Kathy of Harrison TN; grandchildren, Andrew Bentley and wife Sarah, William Bentley, Ruth Bentley and Elizabeth Bentley of TX, Katie Rickard and husband Phinehas, and Zachary Summers of TN. She also leaves behind a loving extended family and friends.