Graveside service for Mrs. Theda Genivieve Carlisle Brister will be 10 a.m.,
Monday, December 7, 2020, at Wellman Baptist Church Cemetery.
Mrs. Brister, 84, of Brookhaven, passed from this life December 4, 2020, at
King’s Daughters Medical Center in Brookhaven. She was born January 23, 1936,
in Chapmen’s Ranch, TX, to Marvin Denon Carlisle and Vivian Anita Harvill Carlisle.
Mrs. Theda enjoyed sports. She was a member of the Enterprise Booster Club. One
of her favorite pastimes was putting jigsaw puzzles together. But Mrs. Theda was a
wonderful wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and friend to all who knew her.
Her family was her heartbeat. Watching her children, grandchildren, and even the
great grandchildren playing sports or participating in their school and church programs
was the most important thing in her life. She was a member of Wellman Baptist Church
and will be missed by her church family as well.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Lucius Bernard Brister; parents; brothers,
J.D. Carlisle, Kenneth Carlisle; sisters, Lina Mae Brister, Montey Rudder McEwen,
Lois Barlow, and Barbara Rutledge; and her two great granddaughters, Brooklyn Scout Brister
and Railyn Nykole Brister.
Those who remain to cherish her memory are her sons, Steve Brister and Sue,
Luke Brister and Mary; daughters, Cathy Ivy and Danny and Amy LaRue; and sister-in-law,
Loretta Spencer and Perry. She leaves a legacy in her 12 grandchildren and 33 great grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Wellman Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, 1918
Wellman Drive, Bogue Chitto, MS 39629.
