Mr. Willie Ray Mitchell

January 12, 1952 - December 14, 2014

Funeral Services will take place 11:00 AM, Monday, December 22nd in the Brannum Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation is 5 to 7 PM, Sunday, December 21st. Interment is in the New Zion Cemetery, Sondheimer, LA. Mr. Willie R. Mitchell was born January 12, 1952 to Glasper Washington Sr. and Norvie Lee Mitchell in Lake Providence, La. Willie attended school in Sondheimer at G.W Griffin School and Lake Providence Senior High School. He worked a variety of jobs including working for his father at the age of 16, Harry Barrett’s Café’ for 4 years, Valley Steel/Pnu Tank, and side jobs as electrician and mechanic. He worked for Mr. LaBane Clement in farming beginning in 1987 till approximately 2013 and finally for Mr. Roger Clement. He confessed his hope in Christ in 1962 at the Union Baptist No.2 church under the leadership of the late Rev. E.G Cobb. He later joined New Zion M.B Church in Sondheimer, La and attend there until his health first started to fail. On March 3, 1977, he married his childhood sweetheart D.M I.C. Mitchell. To this union (1) one child was born, Alberta Denise Isaac Miller. They remained untied in holy matrimony for 38 years. Willie, better known to his close friends as “Wilt “ was a quiet, loving, ambitious, hardworking, and compassionate young man. He loved all of his family. He leaves to cherish his memory his wife Mrs. Dorothy Isaac Mitchell, two daughters, Alberta Miller of Jackson, MS, Kimberly Rushing of Charlotte, NC, eight Grandchildren, and one great- Grandchild; His Second mom, Mrs. Floreece Washington, Tallulah, LA; Three sisters: Edna May (Tallulah, LA) Constance “Connie May” (Eric), Tallulah, LA and Catherine (Von) Blake (William), Las Vegas, NV.; Three Brothers: Lorenza Mitchell (Tallulah, LA), Toney (Bertha) Mitchell, (Sondheimer, LA), Glasper Washington, Jr. ( Sonya), Atlanta GA; a very devoted friend, Mr. Larry Johnson (Las Vegas, NV) and a host of nephews, nieces, cousins. & friends