Jessie Mosley

Mr. Jessie Marvin (Sonny) Mosley was born August 17, 1947 to the late John Evans and Mary Ellen Mosley in Lauderdale Co., Meridian, Mississippi. Jessie spent his childhood years in Marion, a suburb of Meridian. Jessie confessed Christ and joined the St. John Baptist Church of Marion where he remained a faithful and active member until he joined the US Army on his 17th birthday. Jessie received his elementary and secondary education at Bailey Vocational, Steven Vocational and Middleton Attendance Center in the Lauderdale County school system. His hobbies included hunting, hiking in the woods, scaling trees, and dismantling and reassembling his toys and anything else he could find to figure how and why it worked the way it did. Jessie received his basic military training at Fort Polk, Louisiana; his 22 years of military service includes several tours in Germany as well as two tours in Vietnam. During his service in Vietnam, he was stationed in Saigon, where he picked up the skill of speaking Vietnamese. In 1977, Jessie became a member of the Princeton Hall Chapter of the Free Masons. Jessie retired from the US Army in 1985. His military career was followed with him starting his own business as an owner/operator truck driver. After almost 2 years, Jessie came off the road and started working for the U.S. Postal Service, which he just recently retired from in 2008. Jessie met Vivia Watson in Karlsruke, Germany and they wed on August 13, 1976. They were married for 31 years and out of their union came their one and only child Natasha Marie Mosley. Jessie was preceded in death by his parents, John and Mary Mosley, four brothers (Royce, James Nathan, Sam Henry, and John Wesley), and two sisters, (Ida and Ernestine). Jessie is survived by his wife, Vivia M. Mosley; his daughter, Natasha M. Mosley; five sisters, Mary (McGrady) Betts of Toomsuba, Mississippi, Anne (Henry "Hank") Betts of Los Angeles, California, Dorothy (Hubert) Houston of Meridian, Mississippi, Ruth Mosley of Collinsville, Mississippi, and Flora Pringle of Flint Michigan; five brothers, Bobby (Cecilia) Mosley, Edward (Adrian) Mosley, and Jerry Mosley all of Meridian, Mississippi, Donald Mosley of San Antonio, Texas, and Willie Lee Mosley of Birmingham, Alabama; and numerous nieces and nephews; and grand nieces and nephews. A funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday, May 12, 2008 in the Colonial Heights Chapel of the E. Alvin Small Funeral Homes & Crematory, 2033 Boulevard with Pastor Sinclair Rowe officiating. Interment will follow at 1:00 p.m. in the Virginia Veterans Cemetery at Amelia. The family will receive friends from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.