SHELBY — Funeral services for Bessie Lee Pleasant, 48, of Shelby, will be at 1 p.m. today at Lampton Street, Mound Bayou, with Dr. Harvey Jackson officiating. She died Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017, at Panola Medical Center, Batesville. Internment will be in Morning Star Cemetery, Gunnison, under the direction of Byas Funeral Home, Cleveland.
She is survived by her mother, Barbara J. Tanner, of Shelby; sons, Darryl Pleasant, of Tupelo, and Derrell Pleasant, of Goodlettsville, Tennessee; daughters, Shaquita Pleasant, of Goodlettsville, Tennessee, and Sherrell Pleasant, and Sherese Alexander, both of Shelby; brothers, Ollie Tanner, of Anchorage, Alaska, Dennie Tanner, of Tupelo, Kristy Tanner, of Fort Worth, Texas, and David Tanner Jr. and Terrell Tanner, both of Shelby; sisters, Nellie Pleasant, of Clarksdale, Barbara A. Pleasant, of Shelby, Slexcia Wilder, of Jackson, and Kathie Pleasant, of Long Beach, California; and 15 grandchildren.