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Hattie Pearl Jennings

August 31, 1931 — February 29, 2024

Forest


Hattie Pearl Jennings, affectionately known as “Hat”, age 92, a resident of Forest died Thursday, February 29, 2024, at the Merit Health of Madison, following a short illness.
 
 Funeral services will be conducted at 11am Saturday, March 9, 2024, from the chapel of the Ott & Lee Funeral Home in Forest with interment to follow in the Mt. Olive Baptist Church Cemetery near Lake. Pastor Terrell Allen will officiate. Visitation will be held from 10am to 7pm on Friday, March 8, 2024, with the family receiving visitors from 4pm-7pm and again from 9am-10:30am Saturday, March 9, 2024, prior to the service at Ott & Lee Funeral Home.
 
 Mrs. Jennings was born on Monday, August 31, 1931, to Mary Bell and George Shanklin in Humphreys County. She united in holy matrimony to Alex Jennings, Jr and to this union, eleven children were born. She was a homemaker who enjoyed cooking, sewing, and spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren and great-grandkids. She was always willing to step in to provide childcare for the community and everyone wanted to claim her as their own mother. Her laugh was contagious and her light shined so bright. She will certainly be missed by her family, extended family and friends.
 
 She was preceded in death by her mother and father Mary Bell and George Shanklin; her husband Alex Jennings; two sons T.W. Washington and Elec Jennings; five siblings Alberta, Eugene, Will, Emma Lee, and George, Jr.
 
 Survivors include five daughters; Gloria Ann Terry (Robert) of Forest, MS; Gloria Jean Jennings also of Forest, MS; Eveline May (Michael) of Jackson, MS; Hattie Pearl Jennings Carson (Terry) of Carthage, MS; Maggie Mae Jennings of Dallas, TX, four sons; Barah Lee Jennings, Larry Eugene Jennings, Randy Lee Jennings (Betty) all of Forest, MS and Darren Dewayne Jennings of Killen, TX; twenty-one grandchildren; sixty-one great-grandchildren; fifteen great-great-grandchildren; a host of nieces, nephews, relatives, and friends.
 
 Pallbearers are Timothy Jennings, Zachary Jennings, Dezavian Evans, Christopher Jennings, LaDarrius Jennings, D’Alex Jennings, Lekendrick Jennings and James Griffin.


OTT & LEE Funeral Home is honored to serve the Jennings family. To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Hattie Pearl Jennings, please visit our flower store.

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