Obituary
Sylvia was born in Philadelphia, Mississippi to Dixie Lee Nix and Willie C. Davis. She grew up there and graduated from Hickory High school. She love playing basketball and played from the 9th to the 12th grade.
Her love and skill for the game attributed to several of her children and grandchildren also playing basketball.
She worked on her first job as a caregiver for a group home while she was in high school. This experience planted a seed for her desire to become a nursing assistant.
After moving to Gulfport she worked at Gulfport Laundry as a sorter. Her next job was a nursing assistant at Gulfport Memorial Hospital where she retired after over 20 years of service.
She met and married Timmie Anderson Graham, and they were blessed with nine children. They were married for over fifty years. Because she loved to sing, she joined the Trinity Gospel Singers quartet group. She traveled and sang with them over twenty years. She loved to sew and frequently made clothing for her children and herself.
She was known to have a heart of gold. She would feed anybody who was hungry at her kitchen table, and provide a roof over your head whether you were family or not.
She was preceded in death by her mother Dixie Lee Nix, her father Willie C. Davis, by her husband Timmie Anderson Graham; her sisters Fannie Brown, Linda Brimage, and Eloise Morrow, her brothers Elijah Nix, Willie J. Ricks, Junior Nix, and Joseph Nix; her daughters Teresa Graham and Demetria Graham Cook.
She leaves to mourn, her children Robert Graham, Carolyn (Abram) Lewis, SC, Sandra Anderson, Michael Laphand, GA, Alan Graham, Pereedia (James) Jones, Quateasha (Raquell) Bullard, and two children that she raised, Dixie Brimage, and Bobby Brimage. She also leaves a sister, Carolyn Smith (Gary) IN, and a brother Lee Darrel Nix.
She was survived by a great number of beautiful and devoted adopted children the entire Williams Family, Alfred Williams, Belinda Rankin, Rose Green (Joe), Gwendolyn Simpson (Phillip), Tina Williams-Taylor, Douglas Williams, Louis Williams, Kenny Williams, Charlie Wilson (Tara), Marsall Williams, Carrie Johnson, Tracey Williams, Dawn Williams, Tyra Williams, three additional God daughters, Tracey Lewis, Kim Shelton and Beatrice Jones, and a God son Kent Jones, and so many who loved her.
She was blessed to have a host of nieces, nephews, grandchildren. great grandchildren, family and friends. She had two loyal and devoted friends for over 40 years, Margie Jefferson and Lubertha Hudnal. She also had Perline, Minnie Mae Smith and Ms. Mary Alice Powell as lifetime friends.
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