Grozena Sanders
Posted: December 15, 2017
NOXUBEE — Grozena Sanders, 87, died Dec . 11, 2017, at Noxubee County Nursing Home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Springhill Primitive Baptist Church with Rev. Walter Lowery, Jr. officiating. Burial will follow in church cemetery. Visitation is from noon to 6 p.m. today at Carter’s Funeral Service of Macon. Carter’s Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements. Ms. Sanders was born Aug. 22, 1930, in Noxubee County, to the late Lula M. Degrafeed. She was a retired factory worker and member of Springhill Primitive Baptist Church. In addition to her mother, she was preceded in death by her daughter, Barbara Bush; brothers, Shellie and Jimmy Grathree; two grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. She is survived by her seven children, Della Young, Annette Dowds and Rosie Sanders, all of Macon, Susie Young of San Diego, California, Paula Hood of Carrollton, Alabama, Robert Sanders of Montevallo, Alabama and Henry Sanders of Lynchburg, Virginia; two siblings, Lula Williams of Macon and Johnny Grathree of Chicago, Illinois; 25 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be her grandsons.