Senetta Yvette Mallard

Funeral services for Senetta Yvette Mallard, 48, of Rusk, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007 at Mount Olive Baptist Church with Rev. Mertis M. Bartley officiating under the direction of Williams Funeral Home. Burial will be in Rusk Memorial Cemetery.

Mallard died Saturday, Aug. 18, 2007 in Tyler. She was born July 17, 1959 in Rusk. She was a graduate of Rusk High School and attended Tyler Junior College.

She was an active member of Mount Olive Baptist Church. She worked as a secretary, senior choir member and youth sunday school teacher for several years. She also worked for Rusk State Hospital for 23 years.

She is preceded in death by her grandparents and two sisters. Survivors include her parents, Adam and Lola Mallard; brother, Adam Mallard Jr.; sisters, Sharon E. Ward, Karen "Bolton" Edmond and Brenda Mallard Davis, all of Rusk; nieces Cangelya, Alisha and Ashley and great-niece Mykelcia; nephew Jeremy Bolton and great-nephew Ahmorian Treyshun; five aunts and six uncles.

Pallbearers will include Walter Session, Calvin Anderson, Ceotts Meador, Andrew Jackson, Vernell Wickwarf, Jerry Leviston, Melvin Sessions II, Samuel O'neal, Larry Davis and Michael Cook. Honorary Pallbearers will be the Rusk Class of 1977 and her nephews.

August 23, 2007

Information from The Jacksonville Daily Progress