Visitation for Beverly Ann McNeil will be held on Monday, October 2, 2023 from 10:00 am until 11:15 am at Antioch Baptist Church.

Funeral services will be held on Monday, October 02, 2023 at 11:30 am at Antioch Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery.

Beverly Ann Montgomery McNeil, 85, of Louin, passed from this life to be with her

Lord and Savior on Friday, September 29, 2023, in her home, surrounded by family.

She was a lifelong resident of the Antioch community where she was born March 10,

1938.  She was preceded in death by parents, George T. (Buck) and Lila Montgomery,

loving husband of 57 years, Manuel (M.L.) McNeil, brothers, Buster and Bill

Montgomery, and sister, Barbara Read.

Survivors include siblings, Linda (Tom) Diaz, Louin, James (Doris) Montgomery,

Louin, and Odis (Carol) Montgomery, Hernando; devoted children, Bucky (Karen)

McNeil, Louin, Carla (David) Glaze, Ridgeland, Kim (Richard) Vaughn, Madison,

AL, John (Sonja) McNeil, Laurel, and Diane (Gary) Ainsworth, Bay Springs;

beloved grandchildren, Jessica (Ryan) Gregory, Holly (Joe Frank) Alexander,

Christian (Emily) McNeil, Tyler (Michele) Glaze, Andrew (Lauren) Glaze, Elizabeth

Glaze, Kenneth Curtis, Audrey Ann (John Tyler) Boyd, Mitchell Harrison, Ashley

Harrison, Ryan McNeil, Brandon Nolan, Candace Nolan, Ashley Walker, Robert

Ainsworth, Randall Ainsworth; 15 precious great-grandchildren; and very special

friends, Kenny and Melanie Mayo.

Beverly and M.L. were married April 21, 1956. She graduated from Bay Springs High

School in 1957, and attended classes at Jones County Junior College and worked at

Neco before starting a family. She was later employed as a teacher's aide at Bay

Springs Elementary, then as secretary for Bay Springs High and Elementary for

twenty-two years. She and M.L. retired from the school system in 1992 to begin a

new phase of their lives together as poultry farmers. She also spent many years caring

for her young grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren, and loved spending time

with them. They always put a smile on her face. In her retirement, she enjoyed

working on the chicken farm and vegetable and flower gardening with her husband.

Beverly was a faithful, lifelong member of Antioch Baptist Church, where she served

as a Deacon's wife, Sunday school teacher, and as a member of numerous committees

throughout her years. She was a devout Christian who loved her Lord and studied his

word faithfully, sharing her love and knowledge of Him with her children,

grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. She enjoyed cooking for, and with, her

husband, M.L. and anyone who knew them, knew if they were in the vicinity near

lunchtime, they would be treated to a wonderful, home cooked meal straight from the

garden. Beverly embodied the words of Paul in Phillipians 2:3, by always humbly

putting others before herself. She loved spending time with her family, cooking for

them, sharing Bible stories with the little ones, and sharing her knowledge of

gardening with them. She also loved her church family and had many close friends

there and in the Antioch community.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Youth Fund of Antioch Baptist Church.

The family wishes to express their deep gratitude to the caregivers who took excellent

care of our mother and grandmother in the latter years during her declining health.

Colonial Chapel Funeral Home of Bay Springs is in charge of arrangements.