Sarah L. N. Pinson
Published 6:00 am Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Visitation services for Ms. Sarah Lillian Neely Pinson were held Monday from 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m. at Milling Funeral Home. Burial will be in Charleston Cemetery today.
Ms. Pinson, 85, died Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010, at 5:45 p.m. in her and her husband’s home in Little Rock. She lived her 85 years loving, caring and giving to her family. Sara served 60 years with her husband, Thomas Coatney Pinson (T.C.), in Christian ministry, pastoring Southern Baptist churches across Mississippi. Sara Lillian was born Nov. 23, 1924, in Charleston, Miss., to Thomas Benton Neely and Lydia Lewis Neely. She attended Charleston schools, graduating from Charleston High School in 1942. In 1946, Sara Lillian graduated from Blue Mountain Baptist College, in Blue Mountain, Miss., with a bachelor degree in teaching. Sara Pinson was a great influence teaching elementary school children for 30 years in the Jackson Municipal City School System at Walton Elementary, in the Rankin County School System in Florence, in the Biloxi Municipal City School System at Popp’s Ferry Elementary, in the Brookhaven Municipal School System, in the Yazoo City Municipal School System at Annie Ellis Elementary, the Lincoln County School System at Loyd Star and the Wesson County Schools at Mt. Olive Elementary.
Survivors include her husband, T.C. Pinson, of 64 years; her children, Sara Elizabeth Pinson, Mary Ann Meadows and husband, Frank, Penny Caroline Tucker and husband, Michael Timothy, and Dr. Thomas Benton Pinson; sister Nancy Neely Sims and husband, James Harold; 11 grandchildren; and 12 great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her sister Nanelle; her granddaughter, Merry Elizabeth Pinson Nettles; and her great-grandson, James Brooks Ragland.
The family wishes to express love and thanks to her primary caregivers Mr. and Mrs. Michael Timothy Tucker of Little Rock, her children, Harper’s Hospice and the Southern Baptist Convention Board and its Mississippi county affiliates.
The family requests memorials be made to the Vira Rice Memorial Fund set up by Mr. and Mrs. T.C. Pinson at the Baptist Building in Jackson for Southern Baptist ministerial students.