Funeral services for Margaret Fay Ratcliff, of Wesson, are 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 5, at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel on Natchez Drive with burial in Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - Red Star Ward Cemetery.

Visitation is Saturday from 5 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home.


Mrs. Ratcliff, 69, died June 2, 2011, at her residence. She was born in New Hampton on Oct. 28, 1941.

She was a housewife who had various occupations. She had many special interests, including genealogy, family history, writing and sewing. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - Red Star Ward.

Preceding her in death were her mother, Hilder Mae Griffin; her husband, Richard Shelby Ratcliff; and her son, Richard Adam Ratcliff.

Survivors are her father, Willie Ray Griffin, of Vider, Texas; her daughters, Tracy Davis and husband, Timothy, and Paula Ratcliff, all of Brookhaven; her brother, Michael Griffin and wife, Judy, of Brookhaven; her sisters, Patsy Overstreet and husband, Bill, of Kountz, Texas, Jane Holston, of Brookhaven, Elaine Allen and husband, Donnie, of Oxford, and Malinda Pierce, of Baton Rouge, La.; her grandchildren, Jason Smith, Tiffany Smith, Trey Smith, Derek Smith and Timmy Schifano; and numerous great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.