Clara Mihelic

Clara Lou Tilley Mihelic ELROD Clara Lou Tilley Mihelic, age 88, of Elrod, died June 25, 2013, at the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport, Mississippi. Graveside services will be 10 a.m. Saturday at Corinth Cemetery with Rev. Larry Reece officiating and Magnolia Chapel Funeral Home North directing. Visitation will be Friday night from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. She was preceded in death by her husband, Patrick H. Mihelic and her son, Patrick H. "Buzz" Mihelic Jr., and siblings. Survivors include her daughter, Patricia Sullivan (Joe); special friends, Evelyn Ann "Trip Whittaker, Angela Dempsey, and Deb Harbison; grandchildren, Christina and Nicole Sullivan; and great-grandchildren, Clara Beth Sullivan, Izzy and Gabby Roberts, Joseph Lane Montgomery, Mallorie, Abbie, and Tony Watkins Jr. Pallbearers will be Mikey Lancaster, Michael Hobson, Derek Lancaster, Revis Tilley, Mitchell Bayles, and Gary Sullivan. Honorary pallbearers are doctors, nurses, staff security, and residents of the Armed Forces Retirement Home of Gulfport, Miss., and Hospice of Light in Gulfport, Miss.