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Mary Lee Pettus (Adams)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Birmingham, AL, United States
Death: September 17, 1965 (34)
Birmingham, AL, United States
Place of Burial: United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Eugene Adams and Isabelle (BELLE) Adams
Wife of Willie Pettus, Sr.
Mother of Willie Pettus, Jr.; Jeraline Brown; Jerry Gayle Irwin; Private User and Private
Sister of Gennie Mae; Calvin (Sonny) Adams; Ida Bell Maddox; Princess (Lill Bae) Chambers; Alonzo Adams and 4 others

Managed by: Brian Gordon
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About MaLee

    In Birmingham, Alabama, May 25, 1931, a baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Adams, whom they named Mary Lee.  She confessed Christ at an early age and joined the Macedonia Baptist Church in Leeds, Alabama, under the Rev. E.D. James; later she joined the Twenty-Fifth Avenue Baptist Church under the administration of Rev. F. P. Lane.
    In the year of 1944, March 14, she was joined in Holy matrimony to Mr. Willie Pettus; to this union came three daughters, two sons.
    On Friday, 7:30 P.M. September 17, 1965 everyone was shocked who learned that the Lord had quickly and quietly called her from labor to reward.
    The survivors: husband; mother; three daughters; two sons; six sisters; three brothers; five aunts; three uncles and a host of relatives and friends.


            
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MaLee's Timeline

1931
May 25, 1931
Birmingham, AL, United States
1945
August 17, 1945
Birmingham, AL, United States
1953
November 10, 1953
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
1965
September 17, 1965
Age 34
Birmingham, AL, United States
September 26, 1965
Age 34
United States