Beulah Vance Holifield

June 18, 1938 – December 13, 2023

Funeral services for Mrs. Beulah Vance Holifield of Kilmichael will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, December 15, in the Oliver Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Reidis Nash and Rev. Terry Corley will officiate the service. Burial will follow in Sarepta Cemetery in Stewart. Pallbearers will be Mason Meeks, John Fortier, Cecil Webb, Mitch Mansfield, Ken Holifield, and Joe Dukes.

Visitation will be held Friday, December 15, from 1:00 p.m. until service time at Oliver Funeral Home.

Mrs. Beulah Vance Holifield, 85, passed away Wednesday, December 13, 2023, at her home in Kilmichael. She was born to James Synott and Katie Alene Summers Sellars in Stewart, MS on June 18, 1938. She was a member of Poplar Creek Nations Baptist Church in Kilmichael. She worked for several local manufacturing companies over the years before retiring from Irvin Automotive in Greenwood. She enjoyed cooking and serving others. She loved spending time with her family, especially her husband, traveling, and her cats. 

Mrs. Holifield is survived by her husband, Jimmy Holifield of Kilmichael; daughters, Teresa Diane “Cinnamon” Vance Mansfield of Enid and Sharon Vance Webb (Cecil) of Grenada; five grandchildren, Preston Johnson, Scotty Blaylock, Jason Carpenter, Ginger Meeks and Mitch Mansfield; eight great-grandchildren, Adrienne, Dylan, McKenzie, Zayden, Kaylee, Megan, Lexie, and Katie Beth; six great-great-grandchildren; one niece and one nephew. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sister, Jimmie Sellars Smith and great-great-grandson, Bentley Thomas Fortier.

The family gratefully acknowledges the physicians and staff who have taken care of her during her extended illness. A special thank you to the staff who have visited her in the home and cared for her from Accent Hospice Care.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society online at www.cancer.org/donate or by mail to PO Box 6704, Hagerstown, MD 21741.