Carmelita Inniss
Mrs. Carmelita Denise Inniss, 67, of Union City passed away 2:20 a.m. Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at the home of her son, Perry Jackson of Jackson.
Funeral services will be conducted 2 p.m. Saturday, March 30, 2024, in the chapel of Edmaiston Mosley Funeral Home. Pastor Cedric Irby Sr. will officiate.
Visitation will be held at Edmaiston Mosley Funeral Home from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. Friday, March 29, 2024, and after noon until the hour of services Saturday.
Carmelita was born November 22, 1956, in St. Louis, Missouri, daughter of Barbara Ann (Nelson) Irby of Murray, Kentucky, and the late James Irby. She married Charles D. Inniss Sr. August 22, 1985. He passed away October 31, 2021.
She was a member of Truelight Baptist Church in East St. Louis, Illinois, where she was baptized at the age of 13. She attended Dunbar Elementary School, East Side High School and State College, all in East St. Louis, Illinois. She worked 30 years as a CNA, private duty home care nurse in California and retired after 10 years from West Tennessee Healthcare Volunteer Hospital in Martin.
She is survived by three daughters, Jessica Osborne of Union City, Seraphina Inniss of West Africa and Brittany Inniss of Union City; four sons, Charles Inniss Jr. of West Africa, Corye Thomas of Union City, Perry Jackson and wife, Starla, of Jackson and Fredrick Thomas of Salinas, California; two brothers, Cedric Irby Sr. and wife, Sharon, of Glen Carbon, Illinois, and Reginald Irby of Paducah, Kentucky; eighteen grandchildren; and several uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces, nephews and friends.
She was also preceded in death by one son, Conrad Inniss.
Published in The Messenger on 3.27.24