OBITUARIES
Jerry Robinson
January 29, 2012
Obituary for Jerry Robinson Printable Version Recently Lit Memorial Candles W. E. Pegues Funeral Directors and Staff We are pleased to provide this Book of Memories to the family ... (read more)
Viola Felts
January 29, 2012
Obituary for Viola Felts Tupelo - Viola Felts, 95, died Sunday, January 29, 2012, at the Traceway Retirement Village in Tupelo, Mississippi. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Russellville, Kentucky. She retired after forty-five years in the restaurant and catering business. She was the owner and operator of Felts Finer Foods Restaurant in Russellville, Kentucky. Survivors include...
Claudia Marcy
January 28, 2012
Obituary for Caludia Marcy Tupelo - Claudia Marcy, 98, died Saturday, January 28, 2012, at the Reed Green House At Traceway. She was born in Yorkville, Tennessee on September 9, 1913 to Thomas and Nellie Parmley Freely. When she was six, her family moved to Vardaman and she was a 1933 Vardaman High School Graduate. After graduation, she moved to...
Orville Rodgers
January 27, 2012
Obituary for Orville Rodgers Tupelo - Orville Kenneth Rodgers, 71, died Friday, January 27, 2012, at Tupelo Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was born in Tupelo on May 30, 1940 to Orville Doyle and Betty Pauline Johnston Rodgers. He liked to spend time with his family and grandchildren. He especially enjoyed fishing with his grandsons, Joshua and Curtis. Graveside services...
Kate Kingsley
January 27, 2012
Obituary for Kate Kingsley Tupelo - Kate Kingsley, 97, left this life for a much greater life, for which she lived her whole life. She was born to Robert and Mollie Lummus in Lee County, in the Eggville Community. She resided in Lee County all her life except for a brief time in Arizona. She worked at a public job...
Louise Moreland
January 26, 2012
Obituary for Louise Moreland Tupelo - Harriett Louise Moreland, 96, died Thursday, January 26, 2012, at Tupelo Nursing and Rehabilitation Center after an extended illness. A native of Cold Field, Tenn., she was born February 25, 1915 to Albert C. and Martha Butler. After moving to Tupelo, she worked for Long's Laundry and later at Midsouth Packing over 20 years....
John Truxal
January 26, 2012
Obituary for John Wayne Truxal Belden - John Wayne Truxal, 60, died Saturday, January 21, 2012, at his residence. He was born in Terra Haute, Indiana on August 17, 1951 to Herbert Raymond and Florence Ethel McBride Truxal. At the age of seventeen, he joined the United States Airforce and was stationed in many different areas of the United States...
Emmit Hudspeth
January 23, 2012
Obituary for Emmit Hudspeth Emmit Riley Hudspeth, Belden, 93, was born in Sarah, MS on a farm, June 9, 1918 to Joe Lawrence Hudspeth and wife Addie Belle Turner Hudspeth, one of 7 children, six brothers and one sister whom all proceeded Emmit. Emmit passed away January, 23, 2012 at the Veterans Home in Oxford, MS. As a young man...
Jessie Harris
January 23, 2012
Obituary for Jessie Harris Mooreville - Jessie Harris, 86, died Monday, January 23, 2012, at The Sanctuary Hospice House after an extended illness. A Lee County native, she was born June 8, 1925 to James Nathan and Lela Gertrude Smith Griffin. During her working career, she worked for Keith's Hatchery for 22 years, Reed Manufacturing, and Hardin's Bakery. She enjoyed...
Mac Evans
January 22, 2012
Obituary for Mac Evans Thaxton - Mac Evans, 68, died Sunday, January 22, 2012, at the Sanctuary Hospice House after a short illness. A Palmetto Community native, he was born January 24, 1943 to William Elmer and Lillie Geneva Cody Evans. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1965-1971 and had served from 1975-1988 in the Mississippi Army National Guard....
Kenneth McGehee
January 21, 2012
Obituary for Kenneth Lee McGehee Tupelo - Kenneth Lee McGehee, 54, died Thursday January 19, 2012, at his residence in Tupelo after a short illness. A Miami native, he was born September 9, 1957 to Richard Kenneth and Bonnie Jane Landrum McGehee. He was a graduate with honors from Mississippi State University and had additional graduate studies from New York...
Mae Buckman
January 20, 2012
Obituary for Mae Buckman Tupelo - Mae Buckman, 80, died Friday, January 20, 2012, at Golden Living Center in Tupelo. She was born May 16, 1931, in Itawamba County, the daughter of Chester and Christina Nona Allred Clouse. She was a homemaker and loved spending time with her family. She was the widow of Bill Buckman who died January 24,...
Jonathan Douglas Penny
January 20, 2012
Obituary for Jonathan Andrew Douglas Penny Saltillo - Jonathan Andrew Douglas "Drew" Penny, one day old infant son of Douglas and Kara Smothers Penny, died Friday, January 20,2012, at The North Mississippi Medical Center Womens Hospital. He was born January 19, 2012. A private graveside service will be held Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at Tupelo Memorial Park with Dr. Forrest...
Gene Pavone
January 20, 2012
Obituary for Gene Pavone Tupelo - Eugene Anthony "Gene" Pavone, 87, died Friday, January 20, 2012, at The North Mississippi Medical Center. A native of Chicago, Ill., he was born January 17, 1925, to James and Emmanuela Marrone Pavone. He served in the US Army during World War II under General George Patton. He graduated from Northwestern University with a...
Rhonda Whitaker
January 15, 2012
Obituary for Rhonda Todd Whitaker Saltillo - Rhonda Todd Whitaker, 47, died Sunday, January 15, 2012, at her residence. She was born in Illinois on September 15, 1964 to Russell Fuller and Margarette Ann Bright Todd. She was a housewife. She attended Liberty Pentecostal Church in Centerville. She always helped anyone in need. Graveside Services will be 12 p.m. Wednesday,...
Evelyn Duncan
January 12, 2012
Obituary for Evelyn Duncan Tupelo - Evelyn Homan Duncan, 85, died Thursday, January 12, 2012, at The Sanctuary Hospice House after an extended illness. She was born December 20, 1926, in Gunnison, the daughter of B.W. and Ethelene Homan. She has been a resident of Tupelo since February of 1936, and graduated from Tupelo High School. She also completed several...
Charles Bell
January 11, 2012
Obituary for Charles Bell Saltillo - Charles Junior Bell, 81, died Wednesday, January 11, 2012, at his residence after an extended illness. A native of Paris, Miss, he was born March 18, 1930, to W.J. and Ruth Goforth Bell. He worked 32 years for the Ford Motor Company as a general superintendent in Chicago, Ill. The past ten years, he...
Virgil "Jack" Herring
January 9, 2012
Obituary for Virgil W. "Jack" Herring Saltillo - Virgil W. Jack Herring, 73, died Monday, January 9, 2012, at The Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo after an extended illness. A native of Saltillo, he was born January 14, 1938, to Robert Howard and Virgie Ovella Price Herring. He graduated from Saltillo High School and served in the U.S. Army from...
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