HENRY LEE PERSON, JR


FRANKLINTON —Henry Lee Person Jr., 77, died Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013 at his home. Funeral services were held Saturday, Oct. 5, at Greater Ransom Way of the Cross Temple, Henderson, with Bishop Leroy H. Cannady Sr. officiating. Interment followed in Evergreen Cemetery.

He was born to the late Henry Lee Person Sr. and Lena Yarbrough Person. He was educated in the Franklin County Public School system. He worked at Columbia Reporting Company and moved to the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, retiring in 2001.

Surviving: son, Barney Person of Washington, D.C.; daughter, Maxine Brodie of Boston, Mass.; brother, Sanford Person of Franklinton; sister, Ellen Williams of Lanham, Md.; two grandsons; and one great-grandson.

Arrangements by Cutchins Funeral Home, Franklinton.