Services for Ms. Marietta Lane Curry of Decatur will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022, at Clarke Venable Baptist Church with burial in the Decatur Cemetery. Rev. Mark Vincent and Dr. Billy Williams will officiate. Visitation will be held 10-11 am, Saturday at the church.

Ms. Curry, 68, of Decatur, died Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022, at Jaquith Nursing Home in Whitfield.

The special love of her life was her granddaughters.

She loved teaching and spent most of her spare time reading. She taught 11th-grade History and 12th-grade Economics. She retired from Jackson Academy.

Being very interested in school activities, she organized proms, homecoming courts, and student council each year. She also looked forward to taking groups of students to Washington every year. Ms. Curry proctored ACT testing and was an after-school counselor for elementary students. Her favorite college was Mississippi State University.

Survivors are her daughter, Brianne McAlilly, and her husband Matthew, of Madison; two sons, Jason Curry of Jackson and Evan Curry (Emily) of Hattiesburg; two granddaughters: Marley McAlilly of Madison and Alanna Wall of Madison; grandson, Calvin Curry of Hattiesburg; mother, Virginia Ethridge of Decatur; her sister, Kay Scott (Jeff) of Mendenhall; niece, Ginger Harmon (James) of Anniston, Ala.; and nephew, Guy Rawson (Lacey) of Collinsville.

Ms. Curry was preceded in death by her father, Dr. Richard C. Ethridge, and one sister, Janet Ethridge.

Milling Funeral Home of Union is in charge of arrangements