Velma Erleine Parish

Erleine Bigner Parish died peacefully at the age of ninety-five in Kosciusko, Mississippi on Tuesday, the eighteenth of January, in the year of The Lord 2022. Visitation is 6-8 p.m. Friday, February 4, 2022 at Jordan Funeral Home. Graveside service is at 2 p.m. at Johnston Chapel United Methodist Church 2093 Chapel Drive Summit, MS 39666. Jordan Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. She was preceded in death by her beloved George, husband of fifty-seven years. She is survived by her daughter Inga Lynn Berny of Little Elm, Texas and her son George Keith Parish and daughter-in-law Sarah Ellen Chipman Parish both of Kosciusko. Mrs. Parish is also survived by five grandchildren: Katie Kroh (Matt), Sarah Emily Berrios (Danny), Hannah Hester (Daniel), George Isaac Parish, and Judah Parish. A tiller of the soil and lifelong gardener, her hands brought forth out of God’s good earth many bountiful harvests and beautiful bouquets. But far greater was the harvest of lovingkindness that God wrought from her life into the lives of those whom she touched. The aroma of sweetness was ever present in Erleine Parish’s earthly walk and will linger long in the lives of those privileged to have been blessed by her.