Donna McDowell Sexton

Donna McDowell Sexton died on Thursday, May 31, 2012 at the age of 72. Donna McDowell Sexton was the sixth daughter born to the late Lee and Hilda McDowell of Ackerman, Mississippi. She was a graduate of Ackerman High School and East Central Community College, Decatur, Mississippi.

She married Wayne Sexton of Clinton, Mississippi. She was a faithful member of Highland Baptist Church in Clinton and actively involved in the choir and her Sunday School class. She loved her Lord, her husband, family, church family and friends. Mrs. Sexton began her career as a legal secretary at the law firm of Bacon & Smith in Jackson, Mississippi. She began her service at the Supreme Court of Mississippi in January 1981 as Judicial Assistant to Chief Justice Neville Patterson and Presiding Justice Michael Sullivan. She retired as Assistant Court Administrator of the Supreme Court of Mississippi in December 2010. She was an active member of the Mississippi Legal Secretary organization and had served as President. She had devoted her fifty-year career to the legal profession and felt it was an honor to serve.

She joins the following family members in heaven: her loving husband, Wayne Sexton; her parents, Lee & Hilda McDowell; her brother, Terrell McDowell; her sisters, Kathryn Beck, Mary Jane Jones, and Della Thompson.

Her earthly family includes her brother and sister-in-law, Myron and Lesia McDowell of Dayton, Texas; her sister, Elsie Todd of Hattiesburg, Mississippi; and her sister and brother-in-law, Margie and Pete Grantham of Athens, Texas; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Memorials may be made to Highland Baptist Church, 160 Columbia Ave., Jackson, MS, 39209. Mississippi Volunteer Lawyer's Project, or the charity of your choice. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, June 5, 2012 a 2:00 pm from the chapel of Lakewood Funeral Home. Visitation will be from 12 pm - 2 pm at the funeral home. Interment will follow in Lakewood Memorial Park.