Our precious Mother, Dollie Cooley – also known to her 7 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren as "Ma-maw Dollie" entered her heavenly home on April 16, 2023. She was born in Bay Springs, MS on February 5, 1932 and lived a full life thru the age of 91. She was a very loving and supportive Christian lady with a strong will. Mother held her loved ones very near and dear to her heart.

Visitation will be held on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 from 10:00 AM until 11:00 AM at Colonial Chapel Funeral Home on 4593 Indian Springs Road. Funeral services will be held at 11:00 AM and the burial will follow at Union Line Cemetery in Soso, Mississippi. Bro. Harold Floyd will officiate. Colonial Chapel Funeral Home of Laurel is in charge of arrangements. 601-649-3342

She grew up in Soso, MS, the daughter of Walter and Lavada Black with her siblings Glynda Gilbert, Jeaner Ware, Rudolph Black and Diane Hill all who have preceded her in death. She married Charles Cooley of Laurel and they shared 49 wonderful years of marriage until his death in 1998. Together they enjoyed cruises, camping and traveling in their RV, especially loving the Smokey Mountains. Mother was a loving and caring nurse at South Central Regional Medical Center. They were members of Lebanon Baptist Church.

Ma-maw Dollie loved making people happy and she was a wonderful cook Everybody always enjoyed going to her house especially for Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Mother took pride in her family. Her survivors who will forever cherish her love and memories are Kathie (Mike) Ellzey, Doug (Linda) Cooley and Kaye (Gordon) Sartin. Grandchildren are Kenny (Diann) Cooley and Sonny (Ceile) Cooley, Brock (Amanda) Ellzey, Chad Ellzey, Amanda (Clark) Rasberry, Dustin (Natasha) Sartin, Brandi (Bennett) McGehee. Great-grandchildren are Kane, Dax, Bella, Ezra and Ryder Ellzey and Darrin and Foxx Looney, Walker Rasberry, Levi, Analeigh and Juliana Sartin, Ben and Madeline McGehee, Stan and Ali Ellzey, A.J. and Kaden Cooley.

Pallbearers will be Brock Ellzey, Chad Ellzey, Kenny Cooley, Sonny Cooley, Dustin Sartin and Clark Rasberry.

We would also like to thank ALL the staff of Jones County Rest Home for the excellent care they gave our sweet mom. They were truly the hands and feet of JESUS, such a huge blessing to our sweet mother and us. God also provided mom with an angel as a roommate: Mrs. Edna Parker. She was truly a jewel from heaven above. Praises to our Heavenly Father; how He provides for us.

"Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised." – Proverbs 31:30

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