First Posted: 1/15/2009

Mazie Bell Purdie, 93, of 1245 Nathaniel Ave., Fayetteville, died Tuesday at Whispering Pines Nursing Home.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Second New Light Baptist Church, the Rev. M. Penman officiating. Burial will follow at Clarks Chapel Cemetery in Tar Heel.
Surviving are a son, James Earl Purdie of Sanford; two daughters, Mary Lena Washington of Fayetteville and Annie Mae Jackson of Sanford; a brother, John D. Cogdell of Whiteville; a sister, Viola Burden of Fayetteville; 29 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and 11 great-great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends from 2 to 8 p.m. today at L.E. Floyd Funeral Home.