Funeral Service for Bro. Daryl Vernon Mitchell were held on Wednesday, August 30, 2023, at 11 a.m. in The Chapel of Weatherly-Studdard Memorial Funeral Home, Inc., 111 Vanity Fair Avenue, Butler, Alabama. Interment followed in Oak Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, 2887 Oak Grove Road, Toxey, AL with Rev. Willie Kinslow, Officiating.

Daryl Vernon Mitchell was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 25,1946,to the late Vernon and Louise Mitchell.

He departed this life August 22,2023,at Ochsner Rush Hospital, Meridian, Mississippi at the age of 77.

He graduated from Monmouth Regional High School in Tinton Falls, New Jersey in1963.  He worked over 20 years as a crane operator for New Jersey Steel in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, where he retired in 1999.  He had a  passion for racing cars ever since his youth.  Over a forty-year span, he built several race cars.

Daryl was preceded in death by his parents, Vernon and Louise Mitchell; one brother, Edred Keith Mitchell; and one grandson,

Jeffrey Keeton.

He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Mardell Mitchell; daughter, Valerie Ray (Rick) Cherry, Butler, Alabama; son,Tony (Gyneisha) Mitchell, Edison, New Jersey; stepdaughter, Diahan(Jeff) Keeton, Butler, Alabama; stepson, Stacy Mitchell, Perth Amboy,NewJersey; five grandchildren, Niara and Toni Mitchell, NewJersey; Alisha (Korrence) Roshell, Birmingham, Alabama;India and Maura Cherry, Butler, Alabama; two great grandchildren, Korrin and Kambree Roshell; a sister, Brenda Riddick, Fayetteville, North Carolina; sister-in-law, Letha Mitchell, Auburn, Alabama; a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends.