OLIVE BRANCH — The funeral service for Ernest William “Will” McLellan V, 23, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Brantley Funeral Home in Olive Branch with interment in Autumn Woods Memorial Park. After burial, balloons will be released and cowbells will be rung. If you have one, bring it and participate in the celebration of his life. McLellan died April 15 of sudden heart complications. He was born in Oxford, April 19, 1989 to Kay Alford and Ernest McLellan IV. He graduated from Olive Branch High School in 2007. He graduated from Mississippi State and was in the Masters in Business Administration due to graduate this summer. He was past member in ROTC and the National Guard. He was a dedicated player for the MSU Lacrosse team and had been active in the Baptist Student Union, two areas where he made lifelong friends. He spent one Christmas in China on a mission trip with MSU. He spent the summer in New York City two years ago participating in an internship at Grandstand Sports Marketing, and still worked for them on a part time basis. He enjoyed traveling and spending time with his family and girlfriend, Kayla Collins. He leaves is parents: Kay and Randall Alford, of Olive Branch, and Ernest and Tonda McLellan, of Vicksburg; one sister; Courtney Jackson Clayton of Olive Branch; two step-sisters, Alecia Mathis and Shelby Nutt; one niece, Kaylee Ballard, two nephews, Jonathan Clayton and Braydan Ballard. He is the grandson to Martha Matlock and the late Francis Matlock, as well as Peggy McLellan and the late Ernest McLellan III.
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