Teresa ‘Terri’ Mitchell, 65

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Teresa Lynn “Terri” Mitchell, 65, of Jerseyville, formerly of Litchfield, died at 5:16 p.m., on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, at her residence.

Visitation will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 9, from 1 p.m. until time of service, at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church in Medora. Funeral services will begin at 5 p.m., at the church, with Rev. Tim Shrader, personal family friend and former minister of the First Baptist Church in Litchfield, officiating. Cremation will follow the services and private interment will be at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis, MO, at a later date. Plummer Funeral Home in Litchfield is assisting the family with arrangements.

Mrs. Mitchell was born on Feb. 1, 1956, in Waukegan, a daughter of Joseph O’Donnell and Rochelle Marlene (Smith) Davis. She married Eugene Charles Mitchell on July 12, 1975, in Zion. Mrs. Mitchell graduated from Zion Benton High School with the class of 1974.

She was the secretary at First Baptist Church of Litchfield from 2002 to 2016. Mrs. Mitchell then worked as the high school  secretary for Litchfield Community Unit School District #12 for four years, until she retired. She attended Maryville Baptist Church. In her spare time, she enjoyed sewing, reading, traveling and flying with her husband.

Mrs. Mitchell is survived by her husband; mother, Rochelle Davis of Jerseyville;  two daughters, Amanda M. (Rev. Russell) Noss of Cross Plains, TN, and Janice L. (Jereme) Zook of Glen Carbon; two sisters, LuAnn (Daniel) Bennett of Shipman and Mary E. (Ed) Takala of Kenosha, WI; one brother, Joseph D. (Jennifer) Davis of Litchfield; and six grandchildren, Hunter, Summer and  Taylor Noss, and Jaiden, Jaymeson, and Josephine Zook.

She was preceded in death by her father.

Memorials may be designated to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, 7109 Highway 25E, Cross Plains, TN 37049. Condolences may be left online at www.plummerfuneralservices.com.