Funeral services for Alberta R. Bourn will be held on Friday, February 7, 2020 at the Wilson Funeral Home in Monticello at 1:00 PM with Burial to follow in the Old Arm Cemetery in Silver Creek, Mississippi. Rev. Thomas Thurman will officiate at the services with Wilson Funeral Home in Monticello, MS will be in charge of the arrangements. Visitation will be at Wilson Funeral Home on Friday, February  7, 2020 from 10:00 AM until service time at 1:00 PM.

Bourn, 101, of Silver Creek, Mississippi, passed from life on Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at Lawrence County Hospital in Monticello, MS. She was born on January 1, 1919 in Arm, Mississippi to Tom Rogers and May Parkman Rogers.

Ms. Alberta enjoyed gardening and working in her blueberry patch.  She and her husband, Mr. Edward, were featured in the book "Welcome to Lickskillet", which takes the reader on a journey around the South through small, unique towns.  Ms. Alberta also enjoyed baking from "scratch".  She was a host to many who would just stop by her house for a slice of whatever was on the table that day.  She was a seamstress and quilter who made many outfits and pageant dresses for her family through the years.  She told people around her that she lived to be her age because she "worked hard outside in the garden and didn't sit behind a desk every day."  Her personality was welcoming to everyone and she will be missed by so many.

She was preceded in death by Edward Leon Bourn (Husband), Tom Rogers (Father), May Rogers (Mother), Thomas Bourn (Son), Donald Bourn (Son), Jackie Chance (Son-in-law), Thomas "Jack" Rogers (Brother), Mildred Barnes (Sister), Ruby Evans (Sister), Hilda Ford (Sister).

Survivors include Patricia Chance (Daughter), Janis Bourn (Daughter-in-law), Grandchildren: 5 and Great Grandchildren: 2

Pallbearers will be Kurt Bass, Harold Griffith, Mike Pritchett, Jimmy Thurman, Terrell Smith, Phillip Langston.

Honorary Pallbearers will be Dickie Rogers, Dr. Richard Burris, Coyle King, Josh Bullock, Bro. Paul Stephens, Mitchell Ratcliff and Parker Langston.