OBITUARIES
Carolyn Irene Russell
June 23, 2014
CAROLYN RUSSELL Saltillo - Carolyn Irene Russell, 77, died Monday, June 23, 2014, at her home. She was born June 23, 1937 to Jack and Stella Jordan Whitehead. She was a retired seamstress with Hunter Sadler and she never lost her love for sewing. Graveside services will be 11:00 a.m at Christian's Rest Cemetery in Lafayette Springs Thursday, June 26,...
Memory Benn "Mimi" Pegues
June 22, 2014
Mimi Pegues Tupelo - On June 22, 2014, Memory Benn "Mimi" Pegues, 60, joined her beloved daughter and parents in a heavenly reunion. A native and lifelong resident of Tupelo, she was born August 8, 1953, to J. R. and Clara Mae Benn Pegues. Mimi passed away due to complications from an aneurysm that had ruptured two weeks earlier. Both...
Robbie Meador
June 22, 2014
ROBBIE MEADOR Tupelo - Robbie Johnson Meador passed away suddenly on Sunday, June 22, 2014, at her home. She was born August 14, 1938, in Covington, TN to Robert E. and Alice Crutchfield Johnson. She was an active member of St. Luke United Methodist Church where she loved serving the people of her church. She was a member of the...
Lillie Belle Reed
June 17, 2014
LILLIE REED Tupelo - Lillie Belle Reed, 88, passed away at home, Tuesday, June 17, 2014. A lifelong Lee County native, she was born May 18, 1926 to Jack and Fannie Mae Albritton. She was a member of Wheeler Chapel. She retired as a Certified Nursing Assistant. Graveside services will be 2 p.m. Friday, June 20, 2014 at Union Cemetery,...
Sonny Paul Morrison
June 15, 2014
SONNY PAUL MORRISON New Albany - Sonny Paul Morrison, 54, passed away Sunday, June 15, 2014, at the Baptist Memorial Hospital of New Albany. He was born July 24, 1959, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Hershel and Laverne Farrar. For the past twenty-five years he lived in Saltillo and was an employee of Carlock Nissan of Tupelo. Never meeting a stranger,...
Frances Mitchell
June 11, 2014
FRANCES MITCHELL Eggville Community - Frances Marilyn Mitchell, 82, went to be with the Lord, Wednesday morning, June 11, 2014, at her residence. She was born in Lee County on October 3, 1931, to Marlow Thomas and Virgie Stokes Christian. On November 10, 1951, she married the love of her life, J. E. "Bill" Mitchell and together began building a...
Shirley Rouse Pierce
June 11, 2014
SHIRLEY ROUSE PIERCE Saltillo - Shirley Rouse Pierce, died Wednesday, June 11, 2014, at North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. She was born in Lee County to Noel and Christine Nichols Robbins. For over 25 years, she was an agent and district coordinator for AFLAC Insurance and previously worked as the Human Resource Manager for Rose Hill Furniture...
Frances Inez Nicholson
June 11, 2014
FRANCES NICHOLSON Tupelo - Frances Inez Nicholson, 69, passed away Wednesday, June 11, 2014, at the North Mississippi Medical Center Inpatient Hospice Unit. She is survived by her mother, Ruby Williams of Saltillo; three sons, Tony Nicholson (Kim) of Millbrook, Alabama, Jared "Bubba" Nicholson (Laura) of Tupelo, and Matt Nicholson (Marsha) of Germantown, Tennessee; and 5 grandchildren. She was preceded...
Michael Glen Pounds
June 7, 2014
MICHAEL POUNDS DERMA - Michael Glen Pounds died Saturday, June 7, 2014, at his home in Derma. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by W.E. Pegues Funeral Directors.
Cordie Mae Newcomb
June 7, 2014
CORDIE MAE NEWCOMB Mantachie - Cordie Mae Newcomb, 93, born November 5, 1920, went to be with her life-long love and soul mate of seventy-two years, Jess Hulon Newcomb on Saturday, June 7, 2014, at the Courtyards Community Living Center in Fulton. She was born and reared in Mantachie. A homemaker, she spent much of her time raising her six...
Joyce Davidson
June 5, 2014
JOYCE DAVIDSON Tupelo - Joyce Ann DeVine Davidson, 72, died on Thursday June 5, 2014, after losing her battle to cancer. She was born on November 27, 1942, in Kentucky and raised in Illinois. Joyce was an amazing woman who, throughout her life, has done a little of everything. She served with Lombard Police Department in DuPage County, Illinois, yet...
Hershiel Beaty
June 3, 2014
HERSHIEL M. BEATY Guntown - Hershiel M. Beaty, 50, died Tuesday, June 3, 2014, at his home. He was born December 26, 1963 to Carroll and Letha Beaty. After graduation, he joined the United States Air Force and served his country proudly. Private services will be Friday at W. E. Pegues, Saltillo. Survivors include wife Theresa Beaty of Guntown; son,...
Mamie Marlin
June 3, 2014
MAMIE SIMS MARLIN Tupelo - Mamie Lou Sims Marlin died on June 3rd, 2014, at Reed House where she had been a resident for five years. She celebrated one hundred years of life, love, and laughter on October 15, 2013. She was born in the Auburn Community, the daughter of Albert and Nona McGuire Sims. She attended Tupelo High School...
Billy W. Spencer
June 1, 2014
BILLY W. SPENCER Tupelo - Billy W. Spencer, 81, passed away Sunday, June 1, 2014, at the Golden Living Center in Tupelo. He was born April 17, 1933, in Mississippi to Hurschel and Lillian Champion Spencer. A veteran, he served in the United States Army during the 1950's and was stationed in Germany. He was a long time employee of...
Virginia Birth
May 29, 2014
VIRGINIA ROBERTSON BIRTH Saltillo - Virginia Robertson Birth, 89, passed away Thursday, May 29, 2014, at the Sanctuary Hospice House. She was born November 7, 1924, in Oklahoma, to William Halbert and Phenice Josephine Malone Loftin. For many years she served as a sales representative. Sewing, needlework, crafting and working cross word puzzles were a few of the things she...
Grace L. Kennedy
May 29, 2014
GRACE L. KENNEDY Tupelo - Grace Lowthorp Kennedy, 88, longtime church secretary at Harrisburg Baptist Church, died Thursday, May 29, 2014, at North Mississippi Medical Center Hospice Unit after a brief illness. A native and lifelong resident of Tupelo, she was born on Sherwood Ave. July 26, 1925, to Ernest Floyd and Lessie Mahalia Lynch Lowthorp. Grace was a 1942...
Martha George Hall
May 28, 2014
MARTHA GEORGE HALL Tuscaloosa, Alabama - Martha George Hall, 87, joined family and friends in heaven with Jesus Wednesday morning, May 28, 2014. Martha was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother and friend. She enjoyed quilting, cross-stitching, gardening, and most of all being with her family. Her greatest contribution and heavenly gift was helping and ministering to others. She was a...
Father Herbert "Ray" Goodman
May 21, 2014
FATHER RAY GOODMAN Tupelo - Herbert Raymond (Ray) Goodman died May 21, 2014 in Tupelo. He was born in El Paso, Texas, October 31, 1932, the son of Herbert Hatton Goodman and Hattie Mae Crosby Goodman. They moved to Summerland, Mississippi, his mother's hometown, when he was five years old. In 1943 they moved to Laurel, Mississippi where he graduated...
Louise W. White
May 20, 2014
LOUISE W. WHITE Tupelo - Dorothy Louise Welsh White, 87, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 at her home in Tupelo. She was born on May 11, 1927, in Highland Park, Michigan to Roy and Lela Welsh. She was raised in Hattiesburg, MS, and graduated from Hattiesburg High School. On April 8, 1950, she and her husband of...
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