Lela Mae Patterson

1910 - 2013  (102 years)

• Name	Lela Mae Patterson  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	26 Dec 1910	Mississippi, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Census	1950	Lincoln County, Mississippi, USA   [4]
  	Relation to Head: Wife; Marital Status: Married to James Patterson
  Death	20 May 2013	Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA   [1, 2]
  Burial	Floral Hills Memory Gardens, Pearl, Rankin, Mississippi, USA   [1]
  	Lela and James Patterson buried together
  Person ID	I13276	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family	James R 'Jim' Patterson,   b. 21 Jul 1909, Missouri, USA d. 4 Dec 2002, Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	3 Jul 1929	Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, USA   [3]
  	Lela Mae Patterson and James R Patterson
  Family ID	F4733	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 26 Dec 1910 - Mississippi, USA Marriage - 3 Jul 1929 - Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, USA Census - Relation to Head: Wife; Marital Status: Married to James Patterson - 1950 - Lincoln County, Mississippi, USA Death - 20 May 2013 - Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S8355] Find a Grave: PATTERSON Lela Patterson 1910-2013, Lela Mae Patterson Patterson. Lela Mae Patterson, 102, passed from this life Monday, May 20, 2013 at Belhaven Senior Care, Jackson. Funeral services are1:00pm, Friday, May 24, 2013 at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home in Pearl with interment to follow in Floral Hills Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends one hour prior to services. She was born Monday, December 26, 1910 in Marion County, Mississippi, a daughter of the late Albert F. Patterson and Ida Evelyn Thornhill Patterson. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, James Roy Patterson, and son, Joe Allen Patterson. Survivors include son, Thomas Franklin Patterson; daughter-in-law, Joy Patterson; grandchildren, Kay Olliver (John), Karen Kurr (Jeff) and Lydia Patterson Pruitt; great-grandchildren, Jamie Smith (Julia), Adam Smith (DeeDee), Russell Smith (Lyndsey), Allen Kurr and Annaleigh Kurr; and great-great-grandchildren, Eden Smith and Gavin Smith. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110937279/lela-mae-patterson [S238] U.S. Social Security Administration, Issue State: Mississippi; Issue Date: Before 1951. [S1265] Ancestry.com, Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT ; Date: 2016;). Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995 [S11596] Ancestry.com, 1950 United States Federal Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;), United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Lincoln, Mississippi. 1950 United States Federal Census United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Lincoln, Mississippi