Mattie Bailey

Funeral services for Mrs. Mattie Bailey will begin at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, January 30, 2019 from the Ott & Lee Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Bruce Robinson and Rev. Larry Duncan will officiate.

Music for the service will be provided by Mr. Bailey Robinson, soloist, and Mrs. Natalie Emmons, accompanist.

Interment will follow in the Homewood Methodist Cemetery under the direction of Ott & Lee Funeral Home in Forest.

Visitation will be on Wednesday beginning at 10:00 am and continue until service time at the funeral home.

Mrs. Bailey was a lifelong resident of Scott County, and was a Baptist by faith holding membership with Temple Baptist Church in Forest. Favorite pass times included reading, embroidering, cooking and spending time with her family.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Jessie Nelson Bailey; three sons: Robert Nelson Bailey, Paul Ray Bailey, and Ralph Bailey; one daughter-in-law: Julia Bailey; her parents: Evan and Undean Orr Tadlock; three brothers: O.T., Walter and Charles and three sisters: Evelyn, Maggie and Doris.

She is survived by two sons: Jimmy (Geneva) Bailey of Forest and Walter Bailey of Waynesboro, GA; three daughters-in-law: Faye Bailey of Forest; Norma Bailey of Conehatta and Janice Bailey of Branson, MO; two sisters: Maxine Dotson of Harperville and Sue Derrick of Pulaski; and a host of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

Serving as pallbearers will be Chris Bailey, Greg Bailey, Andy Bailey, Jessie Smith, Rusty Foreman and Dusty Foreman.