Willie Mae McCoy, head of influential family dies at 92

The matriarch of one of the city’s most prominent families, Willie Mae McCoy, died last week and funeral services will be held Saturday.

Funeral services for Sister Willie Mae McCoy will be held Saturday, July 9, 2022, at the Walk in the Word Church, 1201 Stubbs Avenue at 11 a.m.

Visitation will be held at the Bethel Baptist Church Friday, July 8, 2022, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Services are being handled by McFarland Funeral Home.

Sister McCoy was the matriarch of the influential McCoy family that has included many of South Monroe’s Civil Rights activist, community advocates for…

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