Graveside services for Mrs. Thelma S. Haley will be on Friday, October 30, 2020, at Heuck's Retreat Baptist Church Cemetery in Brookhaven, MS at 3:00 PM with burial to follow in the same cemetery. Bro. Ken Parvin will be officiating the services with Brookhaven Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Haley, 103, of Brookhaven, MS, passed from this life on Saturday, October 24, 2020, at Haven Hall Nursing Center in Brookhaven, MS. She was born on February 2, 1917, in Brookhaven, MS, to Jim and Annie Smith. She was a member of Heuck's Retreat Baptist Church. She was employed at Lofton's Department Store and in later years she was employed at Benoit's in the cosmetic department. Mrs. Haley enjoyed baking and was known as "The Bread Lady" because she handed out many homemade bread to her friends.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Dorris Haley; brothers, Ray and Rufus Smith; and a sister Bertie Benge.

Survivors are her daughter, Sue Haley Nations and husband John Paul of Brookhaven, MS; son Bill Haley and wife Carol of Monroe, LA; 2 grandchildren, Paula Yancey and husband Jim and Joel Nations and wife Neely; 6 great-grandchildren, and a host of family and friends.

The family would like to extend a special thank you to the Haven Hall Nursing Home staff and all her friends that visited her there.

Mrs. Haley loved her family and church family and will be missed by all who knew her.