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 2:00 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 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Friday, March 29, 2024 and after 12:00 p.m. 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.

Edmaiston Mosley Funeral Home (731) 885-1033