Billie Lou Freeman Bailey

Services for Billie Lou Freeman Bailey, 69, of Whitehouse were held Nov. 29 at Tyler Memorial Funeral Home with the Rev. Leslie Bartley, Frances Bartley and Pastor Mike Boudreaux officiating.

Burial was in Whitehouse Cemetery.

Mrs. Bailey died Nov. 26, 2007 in a Tyler hospital.

She was born May 31, 1938 in Smith County to the late Buck Wynne and Bennie Ruth Birdsong Freeman. She retired as a custodian from Tyler Independent School District and was a member of First Assembly of God, Bullard.

She was preceded in death by a brother, Walter Wayne Freeman, and sisters, Jane Bland, Alice Nell Brown and Jackie Clayton.

Survivors include sons, Mark Lemley, Whitehouse, Terry Lemley, Tyler, and Joe Bailey, New Chapel Hill; daughters, Debbie Grover, Whitehouse, Brenda Freeman, Greenville, and Cindy Hatton, Flint; brothers, Merle Freeman, Tyler, and Weldon Freeman, Whitehouse; sister, Helen Gideon, Tyler; 15 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were grandsons, Joseph Rodriquez, Brent Freeman, Jacob Hatton, Trevor Freeman, Zachary Hatton and Terry Lemley Jr.