OBITUARIES
Maurice Hill
July 16, 2015
MAURICE HILL Tupelo - Maurice Hill, 91, went to be with his Lord and Savior, Thursday, July 16, 2015, at the North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A native of Commerce, Texas, he was born on September 24, 1923, to Leonard and Lorene Cummings Hill and was a resident of Tupelo since 1987. He was a graduate of...
Thomas R. "Tommy" Jones
July 13, 2015
Saltillo - Tommy Jones, 75, passed away Monday, July 13, 2015, at North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. He was born April 10, 1940 in Tupelo to Herman Eugene and Adeline Read Jones. Tommy was the owner of Jones Hardware in Saltillo until he retired. He was a member of Saltillo First United Methodist Church. A Memorial service...
James William "Red" Bell
July 11, 2015
JAMES WILLIAM "Red" BELL Tupelo - James Bell, 72, passed away Friday, July 17, 2015, at Sanctuary Hospice House. He was born June 6, 1943 to Reggie William and Olene Hood Bell. Red, as he was better known by his family and friends, was an avid clock collector and enjoyed watching sports and cop shows. He attended Union Grove Church...
Maxine Stanford
July 9, 2015
MAXINE STANFORD Beech Springs - Maxine Stanford, 90, went to be with her Lord and Savior,Thursday, July 9, 2015, at Homeplace Assisting Living Facility. She was born September 3, 1924, to Arnold and Dora Mckay Hill. In 1940, she married the love of her life, Autis Stanford. She was the oldest living member of Beech Springs Free Will Baptist Church...
Bess Dodson
July 6, 2015
Shannon - Bess Dodson, 75, joined her Lord and Savior Monday, July 6, 2015 at North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born May 21, 1940 to Walter and Pauline Aycock Flaherty. Mrs. Bess retired from American General Insurance Company where she worked as a clerk. Starting a second career in tax preperations, she opened up Dodson Tax Service and worked...
Krissa Wilson Williams
July 5, 2015
KRISSA WILSON WILLIAMS Saltillo - Krissa Wilson Williams, 46, went to her heavenly home, Sunday, July 5, 2015. She was born July 30, 1968 to Harold Kenneth and Cathryn Barnes Wilson. A 1986 graduate of Tupelo High School, she then went on to Itawamba Community College where she played Tennis and they won the state championship. She was a member...
Geraldine "Jerry" McMullan Brown
July 3, 2015
Geraldine "Jerry" McMullan Brown Jerry Brown died peacefully on July 3, 2015 at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo. She suffered from a brief illness and had a wonderful life. She inspired many through her strong since of family. She was born in Lake on June 14, 1923, to Dillard and Minnie Ola Huff McMullan. She attended Belhaven College and was...
Dorothy Curlin Barger
July 3, 2015
Tupelo - Dorothy Curlin Barger passed away Friday, July 3rd, after a long illness while a resident of the Memphis Jewish Home for three years. She had just celebrated her 92nd birthday the week before her death. A native Memphian born June 22, 1923, and later a member of the Woodlawn Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star in Memphis, she...
Homer Jackson
July 2, 2015
Saltillo - Homer Jackson, 68, passed Thursday, July 2, 2015, at North Mississippi Medical Center, Hospice Unit after an extended illness. He was born February 22, 1947 to J. C. and Mamie Dunaway Jackson in Baldwyn, Mississippi. He worked at Lee County Solid Waste as a truck driver and retired after 26 years. Homer loved working in his garden as...
Mary M. Long
July 1, 2015
MARY M. LONG Saltillo - Mary M. Long, 78, passed away Wednesday, July 1, 2015, in her home. A Ruleulle native, she was born April 2, 1937 to the late Hugh Ledell and Gladys B. Walpole King. She graduated from Riverside High School; she then attended Christian Bible Institute in Waxahatchie, Texas. Mary lived in Greenville, Mississippi where she owned...
Donald "Bill" Smith
June 28, 2015
DONALD "BILL" SMITH Tupelo - Donald Ray "Bill" Smith, 74, died Sunday, June 28, 2015, at Sanctuary Hospice House. He was born in Camden, Arkansas on July 22, 1940, to George Gilmer and Ona Ima Dell Neely Smith. Donald worked at Netterville Lumber Company for many years. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, gardening and reading. Donald was a member of Corinth...
Frances F. Hovis
June 25, 2015
Frances Filgo Hovis Tupelo Funeral services for Frances Hovis, 96, will be held Monday, June 29 at 11:00 a.m. in the Jefferson Street Chapel of W. E. Pegues Funeral Home, 535 Jefferson St. in Tupelo, with visitation beginning at 9:00 a.m. She died on June 25, 2015 at Traceway Retirement Village where she had lived for the past twenty-one years....
Joe A. McCarter
June 25, 2015
JOE A. McCARTER Tupelo - Joe A. McCarter died Friday, June 25, 2015, at his home in the Macedonia Community. He was born February 23, 1936, to Ben F. and Robbie Gambrell McCarter. He graduated from Sherman High School, served in the United States Army and was a member of Macedonia Baptist Church. Joe worked many years as a master...
Larry Mills
June 23, 2015
LARRY MILLS Tupelo - Larry Leroy Mills, 57, died Tuesday, June 23, 2015, at his uncle's and aunt's home. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri on February 22, 1958 to Bobby Leroy and Betty Lynn Whitehead Mills. He loved to played the guitar, singing, fishing and being a handyman. Graveside services will be Sunday at 4 p.m. June 28,...
Alice Baldwyn
June 22, 2015
ALICE BAULCH BALDWYN Nettleton- Alice Baulch Baldwyn, 92, passed away Monday, June 22, 2015 at the North Mississippi Medical Center, Hospice. She was born to Oscar and Floy Webb Baulch in Monroe County on May 12, 1923. She lived most of her life in Shannon, but for the last 20 years in Nettleton. Alice and her husband James "Mutt" Baldwyn,...
Jim Long Livingston
June 21, 2015
JIM LONG LIVINGSTON Jim Long Livingston, 91, passed away Sunday, June 21, 2015, at Sanctuary Hospice House after a brief illness. He was born January 20, 1924 to Jim L. and Bonnie Mae Livingston. His love of flying as a teenager led to his joining the Army Air Corps. As a pilot in WWII, he flew a number of different...
M. Jeanette Dillard
June 20, 2015
Tupelo - Margaret Jeanette Dillard, 67, died Saturday, June 20, 2015, at the Millington Health Care Facility in Millington, Tennessee. She was born May 23, 1948, to Maurice Dewitt "Buddy" Edwards and Margaret Virginia Mangrum Edwards. A graduate of Watkins Overton High School, she then went on to Memphis State University on a band scholarship where she played the clarinet....
Virginia Hale
June 20, 2015
VIRGINIA HALE Tupelo - Virginia C. Hale, 81, died Saturday, June 20, 2015 at her home. She was born September 28, 1933, to Harold and Eleanor Hale Cline in Pitman, Arkansas. Virginia was a member of Oak Forrest Baptist Church in Jackson. She worked as a bookkeeper for a school products company, a floor company, and as a general contractor...
Frances Woods
June 20, 2015
FRANCES WOODS Tupelo - Clara Frances Woods, 70, passed away Saturday, June 20, 2015, at the North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born September 20, 1944 to Thomas Jefferson and Cletter Clytie Graves Holmes. Frances was a member of Richmond Pentecostal Church. She enjoyed sewing and was considered an excellent seamstress. She served with her husband while he was in...
Ed Riley
June 19, 2015
ED RILEY Jackson - James Edwin Riley, Jr., formerly of Tupelo, 43, died Friday, June 19, 2015. He was born in Jackson on December 29, 1971, to James Edwin "Jimmy" and Barbara Jean Robbins Riley. Ed was a 1990 graduate of Tupelo High School. He was the owner of Riley's Residential Services in Jackson. Ed enjoyed fishing and golfing. A...
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