Minnie Marie Graves

Service, giving God all of the praise and glory for blessing us with her

wonderful life, will be held at 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at

Calvary Baptist Church in Jackson, MS.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Winston R. Graves and her son, Kenneth

G. Graves. Surviving family includes: her sons, Dale (Linda), Michael (Sharon),

Douglas and Stephen; her sisters, Mavis and Jo (Jim); her grandchildren, Mason,

Bryan, Dana (Chris) and Chris; her great grandchild, Lexie Marie; nephews and

nieces.

Mrs. Graves was born in Tippah County on 25 February 1928. Following high

school, she moved to Jackson, MS to attend Draughon's Business College. Finding

employment quickly, she stayed in Jackson and soon found the man that would

become her husband. They then found themselves with five boys. She would say

that was God's purpose for her life - to be a Mom. And what a Mom she was -

Simply put, She was Great. A woman of an enormous and exacting integrity, a

deeply profound and practical faith and an unending source of strength and love,

Mom's management of the family would rival the country's best CEO. The breadth

of her talents and skills knew few limits - her Sunday dinners were legendary,

mechanical and operational problems were no match, she single-handily manned the

24-hour ER that a home of five boys becomes and no mother in the neighborhood

ever shot a better lay-up. At the end of every long and exhausting day, after

she had everyone else settled and

in bed, all she needed to call the day a success, was to curl up with a bowl of

popcorn, a Goo-Goo Cluster Supreme and the daily newspaper. We love her. We miss

her already. And we will see her again soon...

If so inclined, in lieu of flowers, gifts may be directed to the Ken Graves

Memorial Scholarship & Engineering Fund 500414, Mississippi State University,

Bagley College of Engineering.