Edsel Mitchell

(WEDOWEE) Services for Edsel Mitchell, 78, of Wedowee will be Thursday, March 20, 2008, at 1 p.m. at Mt. Grove Baptist Church, with the Revs. Clause Bennett, Donald Spradlin and David Taft officiating. Mr. Mitchell will lie in state one hour at the church before the service. Burial will follow in the adjoining cemetery.

Mr. Mitchell died Tuesday, March 18, at Wedowee Hospital.

Mr. Mitchell is survived by five sons, Basil Mitchell, Kenneth Mitchell, David Mitchell, Mike Mitchell and Wallace Mitchell, all of Wedowee; his stepmother, Florence J. Mitchell of Roanoke; four sisters, Molly Hendon of LaGrange, Ga., Linda Treadwell of Lawrenceville, Ga., Gary Lee Saddatino of Hilton Head, S.C., and Debra Stallings of Opelika; two brothers, John Frank Mitchell of Wedowee and Stanley Mitchell of Clay County; 14 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. Mr. Mitchell is preceded in death by his wife, Florence P. Mitchell, an infant son and his parents.

Pallbearers will be Chad Adams, Kenneth Spradlin, Ben Milam, Richard Williamson, Rex May, Allen Stitcher, Louis Screws and Mike Spradlin.

Mr. Mitchell was born Sept. 24, 1929, son of Joe Edgar and Willie Rogers Mitchell. He was a member of Mt. Grove Baptist Church, owner of Mitchell’s TV and Appliance, and a member of Sawyer Masonic Lodge #93.

Flowers will be accepted or donations to Mt. Grove Baptist Church.

Benefield Funeral Home, Wedowee.