Visitation will be from 5:00pm until 8:00pm, Friday, August 14, 2020, and 10:00am until 11:00am, Saturday, August 15, 2020, at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home in Pearl. Funeral services are 11:00am, Saturday in the funeral home chapel with interment in Floral Hills Memory Gardens.
She was born December 5, 1933, in Neshoba County, Mississippi, a daughter of the late Leslie Elmer McKee and Johnnie L. Chisolm McKee. Marie graduated from East Neshoba High in 1953.
Marie married the love of her life, Edward Rush Neal, on June 1, 1953 and they moved to Pearl in 1955.
Marie attended Pearl United Methodist Church and later the First Baptist church of Pearl.
Her hobbies included word puzzles, camping, sewing, quilting, and she loved talking on the phone. She found peace and comfort reading her Bible daily. She also loved dancing to old fashion country music.
Marie’s family and friends were the spark of her life, and she delighted in cooking scrumptious meals and heavenly desserts for those she loved and cared for. Her favorite times were any she could spend with her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchild. She was known for her honesty and straight talk-you never had to wonder what she was thinking. And although sometimes sassy, Marie was quite tender hearted. She never forgot a birthday, calling and serenading the recipient with the Birthday Song and sweet wishes for the day.
She was last surviving of seven children: brother, Roy McKee; sister, Kathleen McKee Moore; brother, Leslie McKee; brother, Edward McKee; brother, John D McKee; and brother, George McKee.
Survivors include her beloved husband of 67 years, Rush Neal; daughter, Becky Carroll and husband Mike; daughter, Nancy Anderson and husband Mark; son, Les Neal and wife Rachel; grandchildren, Bryan Carroll, Brock Burnham, Daniel Burnham and wife Kim, Allisha Ferguson and husband Jamie, Stephanie Daniel and husband Kirk, Makayla Conner, Kennedy Conner, and Patrick Conner; great-grandchildren, Austin Burnham, Kaeden Burnham, Lainee Burnham, Jacob Ferguson , Noah Ferguson, Katelyn Ferguson, Rebecca Lucille Daniel, and Michael Knox Daniel; and great-great-grandchild, Harper Burnham.
