The children of Zula Amanda Margaret Morton Maness said good-bye to their mother on Thursday, February 1, 2018.
The family will receive friends from 1 until 3:PM Saturday at Perry Funeral Home; burial will follow at Plunket Cemetery.
Mrs. Maness was born in Lawrence County, AL where she spent her early life. Her hands chopped many a row of corn and picked many a bolls of cotton (as did many of her generation) until she married her husband, Alvie Rhee Maness. She and her family moved to Memphis, TN in 1952 and then to Lake Cormorant, MS in 1966. She and her husband returned to AL in 1989 and have lived in Cedar Bluff, AL since 2000.
Mrs. Maness is survived by her five children: Samuel Dwight (Janice McEnally, dscd)Maness of Murfreesboro, TN; Verbon L (Clare Freiman) Maness of Hernando, MS; Teresa Maness (Jerry) Vaughn and Melissa Maness (Larry E., dscd) Burton of Cedar Bluff, AL and Alvie Lee (Lisa Kelly) Maness of Acworth, GA; her brothers: Vincle (Patricia Watts, dscd) Morton of Oakland, TN; Dale (Helen Lusk) Morton of Sandrock, AL; Earl (Patricia Duncan) Morton of Attalla, AL and sister-in-laws; Margaret Sims (Rosco, dscd) Morton of Altoona, AL; Ruby Izell (Luke) Morton, eleven grand-children, twenty-two great grand-children and a multitude of nieces and nephews.
Mrs . Maness was preceded in death by her husband, Alvie Rhee Maness, her parents, William Luther and Nola Jane Richards Morton, her sister, Magdalene Morton (Johnnie, descd)King, her brothers, William Roscoe Morton, Vaniel Lee (Pauline Davenport, dscd) Morton, Luther Journal Pancie-Luke (Shirley Derring, dscd) Morton and Maskcel-Mack (Linda Whittington, dscd) Morton.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to your favorite charity.
Perry Funeral Home Directing.
