Anne Moody’s Final Resting Place: Family Buries Her Ashes Beside her Mother in Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery

Copyright (c) 2018 by Roscoe Barnes III

This blog post presents a news report on the second memorial service held for Anne Moody during which her ashes were buried beside her mother in the Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery in Centreville, Miss. The service was held on Saturday, July 7, 2018. Moody, a civil rights pioneer and author of Coming of Age in Mississippi, died on Feb. 5, 2015, at the age of 74. Her first memorial service was held on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2015, in Gloster, Miss. Her family, who organized the July burial, said it was time to bring her home. The Rev. LeReginald Jones officiated the service. He is the assistant pastor of Mount Pleasant.

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