Funeral services for Mattie Mae Bailey will be on Monday, July 3, 2023, at Galilee Baptist Church 14150 Hwy 472 Hazlehurst, MS, at 2:00 PM with burial to follow in the Harmony Baptist Church Cemetery. Bro. Robert Sones will be officiating the services with Brookhaven Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Visitation will be at Galilee Baptist Church on Monday, July 3, 2023, from 12:00 PM until 2:00 PM.

Mrs. Bailey,92, of Hazlehurst, MS, passed from this life on Saturday, July 1, 2023, at Copiah County Medical Center in Hazlehurst, MS with her loving family by her side.  She was born on June 8, 1931, in Hazlehurst, MS, to Troy McManus and Boby Lucille McLendon McManus. She was a member of Galilee Baptist Church. She worked for many years as a quality control inspector at the garment factories in Hazlehurst and Crystal Springs. She was a school bus driver and a cafeteria worker at Union school.  Mrs. Mattie enjoyed baking, sewing, being with family and friends and attending church. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, great-great grandmother and friend. She experienced the joy of five generations of family.

Preceding her in death were her parents, Troy and Boby Lucille McManus; husband Willie J. Bailey; sons John Wayne Bailey and Bobby Joe Bailey; and sister Katherine McManus Sykes.

Survivors are her daughter Rita Runnels; brother Richard McManus (Becky); grandchildren Jason Bailey (Kerry), Janna Tyler, Jamie Leigh Odom (Sidney), Jonathan Runnels; great grandchildren Karley Smith, Keith Morgan (Cheyene), Conner Morgan, Kynlea Runnels, Jordan Bailey, Madelyn Bailey, Peyton Bailey, Jase Bailey, Jade Thorpe (Johnathan), Jared Whittington and Bailey Walker; great-great grandchildren McKenzie Hamilton, Breelynn Hamilton, Maryana Morgan, Waylon Thorpe and Hazle Thorpe; and a host of family and friends.

Pallbearers are Sidney Odom, Jonathan Runnels, Keith Morgan, Conner Morgan, Jared Whittington and Johnathan Thorpe. Honorary pallbearer is Jason Bailey.

The family would like to extend a special thank you to Copiah County Medical Center staff and nurses, Nurse Practitioners Chris Price and Karen Sue Boone, Therapy Staff, CNA's and Dr. Smith Omonuwa, ER Physician.