OBITUARIES
Cheyrl Diane Brown Nichols
April 2, 2017
Cheryl Diane Brown Nichols Guntown - Cheryl Diane Brown Nichols, 67, of Guntown, Mississippi went to be with the Lord, Sunday, April 2, 2017, at the North Mississippi Medical Center Hospice Care Unit after a two year courageous battle with Multiple Myeloma Cancer. She was born June 5, 1949, to Charles and Bessie Brown of Tupelo, Mississippi. She was a...
Curtis Roberts
April 1, 2017
CURTIS ROBERTS Tupelo - Curtis Floyd Roberts, 69, went to be with the Lord, after a long battle with cancer, on Saturday, April 1, 2017 at the North Mississippi Medical Center. He was born on December 25, 1947, to Ottis and Arlene Hankins Roberts. Curtis was a graduate of Tupelo High School. He was a former employee of E. R....
David Frederick Chapman
March 31, 2017
David Frederick Chapman Plantersville, formerly of Gulfport - David went to be with the Lord on Friday, March 31, 2017, after a short but valiant fight against cancer. He was at home surrounded by his loving wife and children. David was born in Cook Co., Illinois, on June 10, 1942, to David Franklin Chapman and Joyce Eileen Taylor. Very soon...
Thomas Woodward Hutson, Jr., M.D.
March 29, 2017
THOMAS WOODWARD HUTSON, JR., M.D. Tupelo - Thomas Woodward Hutson, Jr., M.D., 93, died Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo. He was born July 21, 1923 in Miami, Florida to Dr. Thomas W. Hutson, Sr. and Ethel Barco Jackson Hutson. Dr. Hutson was the grandson of Miami's pioneer physician Dr. James M. Jackson, for whom the...
Berma Ruth Shackelford
March 29, 2017
Berma Ruth Shackelford Tupelo - Berma Ruth Shackelford, 90, passed away Wednesday, March 29, 2017, at North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born October 1, 1926, to Aubrey and Berma Morgan Dillard and raised by her grandparents, Will and Nettie Leora Morgan. She graduated from Mooreville High School. She received a professional degree from East Mississippi Community College at Scooba...
Betty Jean McCullough Bush
March 29, 2017
Betty Jean McCullough Bush Plantersville - Betty Jean Bush, 86, passed away Wednesday, March 29, 2017, at home. She was born January 20, 1931, to Bilbo Bill and Clara Edna Kelly McCullough. She was raised in the Beech Springs Community. She married George Allen Bush December 31, 1959. Betty worked in many different professions, but she was most proud of...
Robert C. Jensen
March 28, 2017
Tupelo -- Robert C. Jensen, 77, passed away Tuesday, March 28, 2017, at Golden Living Nursing Home in Ripley. Services will be on Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 3 p.m. at Gilvo Cemetery. Expressions of sympathy may by left at www.peguesfuneralhome.com .
Ricky D. Stanley
March 25, 2017
Mooreville -- Ricky D. Stanley,61, passed away Saturday,March 25, 2017, at North Mississippi Medical Center in West Point. Visitation will be on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 from 5 until 8 p.m. at W. E. Pegues, Tupelo.
Marie N. Wiggins
March 24, 2017
Marie N. Wiggins Tupelo - Marie N. Wiggins, , passed away Saturday, March 24, 2017 at North Mississippi Medical Center. Marie was born, October 28,1926, in Smithville to Fred Nabors and Aura Summerford Nabors. She was a longtime educator for 40 years in at Joyner Elementary in Tupelo and in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Marie was a charter member at Parkway Baptist...
Willis J. Swain
March 23, 2017
Willis J. Swain TUPELO – Willis J. Swain, 77, a longtime Tupelo funeral director, died Thursday, March 23, 2017, in the hospice unit at North Mississippi Medical Center. A native and lifelong resident of Tupelo, he was born August 27, 1939, to Willis Owen and Myrtie Ford Swain. Willis began working with W. E. Pegues Funeral Directors June 1, 1956,...
Nancy Lavell Markham
March 22, 2017
NANCY LAVELL MARKHAM Old Union Community - Nancy Lavell Markham, 87, passed away on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at Sanctuary Hospice House after an extended illness. She was born September 6, 1929 to Steve and Ruby Harlow Causey. She was a homemaker and enjoyed babysitting in her earlier years. She was a Baptist by faith. Nancy enjoyed gardening, crocheting, word-find...
Sam G. Patterson
March 21, 2017
SAM G. PATTERSON TUPELO -- Sam Garmon Patterson, 71, passed away on Tuesday, March 21, 2017, surrounded by his family. Sam was born to the late Sam Hardin Patterson and Lucille Garmon Patterson of Verona, on May 5, 1945. He graduated from Tupelo High School in 1963 and earned a degree in civil engineering from Mississippi State University in 1967....
Clyde Edgar "Santa Claus" Teel
March 18, 2017
Clyde Edgar “Santa Claus” Teel Booneville – Clyde Edgar “Santa Claus” Teel, 70, died Saturday, March 18, 2017, at his residence after a sudden illness. Clyde was born December 6, 1946, in South Chicago, Illinois to Betty Lou May Gorski. He worked at Pullman Standard in Chicago doing plumbing and maintenance on passenger railcars until his retirement. After retiring from...
Mike Graham
March 16, 2017
MIKE GRAHAM Tupelo - James Michael Graham died unexpectedly on Thursday, March 16, 2017, at the Cedars Health Center in Tupelo, MS, at the age of 57. Mike is survived by his mother, Martha Gurley Graham of Tupelo; wife, Lindy Gary Graham; sons, Knox, Kyle and Parks; sisters, Renee Camp (Pierce) of Hernando and Cindy Fowler (Ray) of Tupelo. He...
Roy Mann
March 15, 2017
ROY MANN Tupelo - Roy Franklin Mann, Lee County native, 83, passed away Wednesday, March 15, 2017, at North Mississippi Medical Center. He was born July 29, 1933, to Alonzo and Dovie Mae Malone Mann. He attended Itawamba Junior College. MSgt. Roy Mann, Retired, served his country for 26 years during which he served in the Army, Navy and Air...
Faith Denise Outlaw
March 12, 2017
Faith Denise Outlaw, 53, passed away Sunday, March 12, 2017, at North Mississippi Regional Center in Oxford. Faith was born January 9,1964, in Mississippi to the late C.E. Outlaw and Barbra Ann Outlaw. Faith is survived by her two sister, Lucy J. Outlaw of Paris, Tennessee and Charlotte Boatner of Mooreville. Visitation will be 4 until 8 p.m. Friday, March...
Sandra Edwards
March 12, 2017
SANDRA EDWARDS Pontotoc - Sandra Lue Floyd Edwards, 48, passed away March 12, 2017 at her home. She was born February 20, 1969 to Sammie and Betty Floyd of Tupelo. Sandra attended Tupelo City Schools. She loved fishing with her husband on warm summer days, playing games on her phone and spending time with her family. One of her favorite...
Wanda Mae Henry
March 12, 2017
Wanda Henry Saltillo -Wanda Henry 65, passed away Sunday, March 12, 2017, at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo. She was born in Baldwyn on December 18, 1951, to Jessie Millard and Clara Mae Henry. Wanda worked at Wal-mart for five years as a cashier and Central Services at North Mississippi Medical Center for 17 years. She enjoyed crocheting, cook books...
David E. Moore
March 10, 2017
David E. Moore Saltillo - David E. Moore 53, passed away Friday, March 10, 2017, at North Mississippi Medical Center. David was born March 25,1963, in Baldwyn to Jessie Flurmon and Mozella Swinney Moore . He was a 1982 graduate of Tupelo High School and joined the Army after graduation. He was in the Army for 8 years and the...
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