Ms. Ilyss Daniels Speights, 87 passed away on November 23, 2018, at Lawrence County Hospital in Monticello, MS. Ilyss was born July 9, 1931 in Oak Vale, MS to Marshall and Sadie Branton Daniels.

Ilyss retired from Lawrence County Hospital where she was the director of purchasing- material management and also worked in the Pharmacy. She loved spending time with her family; she was a loving mother, grandmother, great- grandmother, great-great-grandmother and friend. She enjoyed mission trips, working in her flower beds, and she loved God and her church and was a member of Oak Vale Baptist Church for many years where she taught Sunday school and vacation bible school.

Visitation will be held on Sunday, November 25, 2018 from 5 PM until 8 PM at Oak Vale Baptist Church in Oak Vale and continuing Monday, November 26, from 9 AM until service time at 11AM with graveside services following in Oak Vale Baptist Church Cemetery. Bro. Eddie Myers and Bro. Robby Hathorn will officiate the services, with Wilson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

She survived by her sons Ricky Speights (Debbie) of Purvis, MS, and James         (Slick) Speights of Sumrall, MS; daughter Wanda Speights Daley of Monticello, MS; 11 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by her parents, husband Horace L. Speights Jr., daughter Janice Ann Speights Davis and her two great grandchildren Macy Lynn Mason and Ronald Cole Cook.

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