"A wife of noble character who can find? Her children arise and called her blessed; her husband also, and praised her: Many women do noble things but she surpassed them all."

Funeral services for Mrs. Veolor Mae Ross, 83, of Baton Rouge, LA will be held Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 11:00am from the Magnolia Baptist Church in Woodville, MS. Burial will follow at the Cedar Rest #2 Cemetery in Woodville under the directions of Concordia Funeral Home of Ferriday, LA. Rev. Harold Smith will officiate. Visitation will be held Wednesday morning from 10:00am to service time at the church.

Mrs. Ross, daughter of Sidney and Lucille Bland Scott, was born in Woodville and died at the Hospice of Baton Rouge in Baton Rouge. She was a retired administrative assistant at Southern University in Baton Rouge. After raising all of her children, she returned to school and graduated from Southern University.

She is survived by one son, John Henry Ross and his wife, Dorothy Jean of Woodville; two daughters, Betty Simon and her husband, Hayward of Lake Charles, LA; Jacquelyn Washington of Baton Rouge; one son-in-law, Ernest LeBlanc of Baton Rouge.

Also twenty five siblings, thirteen grandchildren, nineteen great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Ross is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Willie H. Ross, Sr., one son, Willie H. Ross, Jr. and one daughter, Sadie LeBlanc.