Mary Helen Dent, born August 30, 1923 to Rollins Preston Dent and Johnnie Hollingsworth Dent, passed away peacefully in her sleep at Clinton Nursing Home, at 91 years of age on Thursday, June 11, 2015.
Visitation will be held from 2-4pm Sunday, June 14, 2015 at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home in Pearl. Funeral services will be held at 10am Monday in the funeral home chapel with interment to follow at Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Jackson.
Mrs. Dent was preceded in death by her parents and four brothers; John Robert Dent who died at age three, Jack H. Dent, Rollins P. Dent Jr. and her twin brother, James Clifton Dent Sr.
After completing Hinds Jr. College Mary Helen got a job working for South Central Bell on the 28th of November 1942. She retired from this job on the first of April 1982.
Mary Helen is survived by sister-in-law, Lou Ann Dent; five nephews, Bobby Preston Dent (Sheila); James Clifton Dent Jr. (Bobbie), David Lee Dent (Suzanne), Steven Dent (Robyn), Mark Dent (Shawn); and nieces, Frances Thrash (Terry), and Pam Willis (Archie).
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