Vivian Sheila Martin Pertuit age 80, June 28, 1943, to July 20, 2023.
Mrs. Pertuit died while in the loving care of Picayune Rehab and Nursing Home after a lengthy
illness.
She was a native of the Caesar community near Picayune MS. She was a 1961 graduate of Pearl
River Central high School and a 1962 graduate of Pearl River Junior college. She began her
working career in the financial business. After being a stay at home mother she began a career
with K&B as a cosmetician. She retired from Rite Aid after 25 years.
She was preceded in death by her parents Herman and Polly Smith Martin; her brother Shirley
and Alfred Buck Martin; and her sister Mary Ellen Jordan.
Left to cherish her memory’s: daughter Sheila Kay Varnado, a son Jason Frederick Pertuit, sister
Sydnia Kellar, all of Picayune Mississippi and a sister Shannon Finley of Baton Rouge
Louisiana; she had two granddaughters Brittany Magee and Tiffany Varnado of Findlay Ohio;
she had four great-grandchildren Charles Marcos Magee, Christian Breeze Magee, Chloe
Marianne Magee, and Wyatt Webster Varnado -Zechman, All of Findlay Ohio.
Services will be private at the request of Mrs. Vivian Pertuit. We ask in lieu of flowers we ask
that you make a donation to St Jude's Hospital the charity Mrs. Pertuit donated to for 20 years.

Arrangements are under the direction of Picayune Funeral Home, (601) 798-5238.
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