Lela Mae Liddell- Yarbary

MRS. LELA MAE LIDELL - YARBARY -  Visitation with the family Tuesday,July 24, 2018 at Mabone Funeral Home LLC Chapel from 2- 6:00 p.m.. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, July 25th, 2018; 11:00 a.m. at Morris Chapel C.M.E. Church Somerville, TN., Interment West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery Forrest Hill & Irene road 2:00 p.m.

“God is our refuge and strength, an ever present help in trouble.”   Psalms 46:1

On Sunday, July 15, 2018, in Detroit, MI, the loving spirit of Lela M. Liddell Yarbary went to join the Savior in that home not made by hand.

Lela M. Liddell was born on April 9, 1931 in Memphis, TN to Willie Liddell and Elizabeth Payne Watkins. She attended Memphis City Schools, but graduated from Fayette County Training School in 1949 and from Tennessee A&I State University in 1953. She began her teaching career at Fayette County Training Elementary School and worked there until May, 1965. Following her employment with the school system, she joined the ranks of ASCS now Farm Bureau. Her tenure there spanned almost decades.

She professed a hope in Christ at an early age and joined the Greenwood CME Church in Memphis, TN. She later joined the Morris Chapel CME Church in Somerville, TN where she remained very active as a devoted Steward and president of the Missionary Society until her health began to fail her.

Lela and Augusta were married on September 2, 1947 and to this union of 65 years, two children were born, Augusta Jr. and Joyce.

She leaves to cherish her memory a son, Thomas Augusta, Jr. (Alberta of Moscow, TN);  a daughter, Joyce Yarbary Murrell-Payton of Detriot, MI , 5 grandchildren, 12 great-grand children, 3 great-great-grandchildren and a host of other relative and friends