SAVANNAH - Billy Joe Darnell, 65, retired from Packaging Corporation of
America in Counce, died Friday at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital.
Services will be at 3 p.m. today at Shackelford Funeral Home with burial in
Mount Hermon Cemetery. He was a member of Savannah First United Methodist
Church, Sons of Union Veterans, the Historical Society and Purple Martin
Society. Mr. Darnell, the husband of Linda Young Darnell, also leaves a
daughter, Angelia Burnette of Knoxville; a son, Mark Darnell of Fairhope,
Ala.; his mother, Geneva Darnell of Savannah; a sister, Margaret Ann Whalen
of Horn Lake, Miss.; a brother, Larry Darnell of Georgia, and two
grandchildren.
The Commercial Appeal, January 11, 2004
Section: Metro, Page: B3, Edition: First
[Contributor: Rose-Anne Cunningham Bray, 2004]