Sallie Lou Cummings Sanderson

Funeral Services will be held 2:00PM Friday 10/8/21 at Fellowship Baptist Church in Choctaw County with burial in Clarkson Cemetery in Webster County, MS. Visitation will be 6:00PM until 8:00PM Thursday 10/7/21 at Oliver Funeral Home. Mrs. Sanderson will lie in state in Fellowship Baptist Church Friday 10/8/21 from 1:00PM until time of services at 2:00PM. Mrs. Sallie Lou Cummings Sanderson, 95, retired homemaker and employee with Wells Lamont, died 10/5/21 at her residence in Mathiston. Funeral Services were held 2:00PM Friday 10/8/21 at Fellowship Baptist Church in Choctaw County with burial in Clarkson Cemetery in Webster County. Rev. Hugh Everette Bland and Rev. George Everette "Bubba" Bland officiated. Pallbearers were; James Bennett, Beau Palmer, Rodney Pollard, Stephen Scogins, Eddie and Jimmy Smith. Mrs. Sallie was a longtime member of Fellowship Baptist Church and is survived by three sons; Wayne (Gina) Sanderson, Bill Sanderson and Mike Sanderson, all of Mathiston, MS, her sister; Louise Brassfield, Eupora, MS, her brother; Rev. Doyle (Liz) Cummings, Eupora, MS and her granddaughter; Erin (Don) Johnson, Mathiston, MS. She was preceded in death by her parents; Jesse and Ida Cummings, stepmother; Bertha Mae Holland Cummings, husband; Connie Sanderson, and her brother and his wife; Tommy (Liz) Cummings. Sallie's mother passed away when she was 17 and she helped run the house and take care of her three younger siblings. She graduated from Cumberland High School. Sallie and Connie were married 4/15/50 and raised their three boys in the Sherwood Community. She worked at Wells Lamont until the youngest son graduated high school and she quit to stay at home. Sallie spent Fridays getting her hair fixed, going to eat and going to the grocery store. She went with her sister and often took other older women in the community. She as a selfless person who put others before herself. She would sometimes mention how slow some of the women were and then would say, but I'll be slow one day and I hope someone will take me to town. Bill and Mike made sure she got her hair fixed which was the only thing she did for herself. Sallie enjoyed quilting and made and gave away too many to count. Every family member, anyone who got married, graduated from high school or just wanted one, got one of her quilts. She enjoyed quilting with the "Sherwood Quilters" and they helped her quilt even as her eyesight diminished and dementia began. She was active in WMU and was known as "Mammaw Sallie" to many children. Sallie treated everyone the same and loved all of her nieces and nephews completely. To most of them she was another mother or a grandmother figure