OBITUARIES

Robbie Turner

Robbie Turner

October 25, 2011

Obituary for Robbie Turner Tupelo - Robbie Faye Turner, 76, died Tuesday, October 25, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A Tupelo native, she was born July 28, 1935, to William C. and Jewel L. Brown Thompson. She married James R. Turner in 1950, and lived in Memphis, Tenn. over 30 years. In the 1990's...

Nona Houston

Nona Houston

October 24, 2011

Obituary for Nona W. Houston Asheville, N.C. - Nona Wayne Houston, 87, died Monday, October 24, 2011, at St. Joseph Campus, Mission Hospitals in North Carolina. A Tupelo native and longtime resident, she was born August 25, 1924, to R.A. and Vernie Lessel Kitchen. She graduated from Tupelo High School and married Roy Houston January 4, 1944. She was employed...

Winnie Shaw

Winnie Shaw

October 23, 2011

Obituary for Winnie Mae Shaw New Albany - Winnie Mae Harris Shaw, 83, died Sunday, October 23, 2011, at Graceland Care Center in New Albany after an extended illness. She was born in Mooreville on February 17, 1928 to C. F. and Lelar Harris. For the past 15 years she lived in New Albany. She was a member of Mt....

Cpt H. Taylor

Cpt H. Taylor

October 18, 2011

Obituary for Cpt. Charles H. Taylor Tupelo Cpt. Charles Harlan Taylor, 89, died Tuesday, October 18, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center. A native of McLeansboro, Illinois, he was born December 19, 1921, to John and Flora Meadows Taylor. He served in the US Coast Guard for five years and was a Captain for Victory Carriers which served the...

Joey Sloan

Joey Sloan

October 17, 2011

Obituary for Joey Sloan Pontocola-On October 17, 2011, the sun set for Joey Sloan, age 55, while he was at his home in the Pontocola Community. The sun rose for Joey on December 31, 1955. He was the son of Charles Leonard and Jewel Dean Whitmon Sloan. He worked as a truck driver, mechanic, and heavy equipment operator. He enjoyed...

Pauline Edwards

Pauline Edwards

October 15, 2011

Obituary for Pauline "Polly" Edwards Plantersville Pauline Polly Edwards, 90, died Saturday, October 15, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. She was born December 11, 1920 in Arkansas to Albert and Nora Bishop. She was a charter member of Temple Grove Baptist Church in the Temple Grove Community. In her earlier years, she served as...

Mable Smith

Mable Smith

October 15, 2011

Obituary for Mable Smith Pensacola, Fla.--Mable Turman Smith, 91, resident of Pensacola, Fla., died Saturday, October 15, 201l. She was born in Tupelo on August 17, 1920. She graduated from Tupelo High School and received a B.S. degree for the University of Southern Mississippi. She moved to Pensacola in 1984, and became a member of First Presbyterian Church. She was...

Pauline

Pauline

October 15, 2011

Obituary for Pauline "Polly" Edwards Plantersville Pauline Polly Edwards, 90, died Saturday, October 15, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. She was born December 11, 1920 in Arkansas to Albert and Nora Bishop. She was a charter member of Temple Grove Baptist Church in the Temple Grove Community. In her earlier years, she served as...

Ouida Johnson

Ouida Johnson

October 14, 2011

Obituary for Ouida Rae Johnson Verona - Ouida Rae Johnson, 86, died Friday, October 14, 2011, at her sons residence in Tupelo. She was born in Kemper County on May 6, 1925 to Lawrence E. and Mary Elizabeth Barker. She worked at Blue Mountain College as a Dorm Mother and was affectionately known as Mamaw. She was an active and...

John Pittman

John Pittman

October 12, 2011

Obituary for John Pittman Tupelo - John Pittman, 68, died Wednesday, October 12, 2011, at his residence after an extended illness. He was born in Tylertown on August 15, 1943, to Thomas J. and Donys R. Pittman. He earned a degree in Accounting from the Mississippi State University. He was a member of New Hope Baptist Church. He was a...

Raymond Montgomery

Raymond Montgomery

October 10, 2011

Obituary for Raymond Montgomery Saltillo - Raymond Witt Montgomery, 90, died Monday, October 10, 2011, at his residence. A native of Waldo, Ark., he was born September 29, 1921. He attended Chicago University and numerous other schools specializing in avionics engineering. He served in the US Air Force during World War II and worked over 30 years for the Civil...

Katherine Langley

Katherine Langley

October 9, 2011

Obituary for Katherine Langley Tupelo M. Katherine Freeman Langley, 82, died Sunday, October 9, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born December 27, 1928, to Simon Curtis and Mamie Ann Strawbridge Freeman. A resident of Tupelo, she was a member of Old Union Baptist Church in Shannon where her husband serves as pastor. She was a devoted...

Linda Sansone

Linda Sansone

October 6, 2011

Obituary for Linda K. Sansone Tupelo - Linda K. Sansone, 63, died Thursday, October 6, 2011, at her residence after an extended illness. A Booneville native, she was born April 10, 1948, to Clarence and Wylodean Griggs. She was a devoted member of Gilmore Chapel. Her passion was hosting beauty pageants and spending time with her family, friends and her...

Ray Aycock

Ray Aycock

October 6, 2011

Obituary for Ray Aycock TUPELO Arden Ray Aycock, Sr., 92, died October 6, 2011, at his home. He was born in the Salem community near Macon, Mississippi, on February 24, 1919, to Sara Alice Hunter Aycock and Arthur Lee Aycock. He was a charter family member of St. Luke United Methodist Church. He was lovingly known as Big Ray to...

Emma White

Emma White

October 6, 2011

Obituary for Emma White Saltillo - Emma Lee White, 70, died Thursday, October 6, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A Lee County native and lifelong resident, she was born July 5, 1941, to Lee and Estelle Storms Harris. She was retired from Lanier Clothing where she worked as an inspector. For the past two...

Mittie Smith

Mittie Smith

September 30, 2011

Obituary for Mittie Smith Unity - Mittie Jane Lyons Smith, 86, died Friday, September 30, 2011, at The Baldwyn Nursing Facility of North Mississippi Medical Center. A Lee County native and longtime resident of the Unity Community, she was born November 27, 1924, to Louis and Rennie Clementine Lyons. She was employed 36 years with Hunter-Sadler Manufacturing. She was married...

Wanda Yagel

Wanda Yagel

September 30, 2011

Obituary for Wanda Yagel Tupelo - Wanda J. Yagel, 87, died Friday, September 30, 2011, at The Sanctuary Hospice House after an extended illness. She was born October 19, 1923, in Smithville, Penn. to Charles and Mabel Burchnell Wise. A longtime resident of Silver Spring, MD, she moved to Tupelo to be with her daughter three years ago. She worked...

Wayne Piatt

Wayne Piatt

September 28, 2011

Obituary for Wayne K. Piatt Saltillo - Wayne K.Piatt, Jr. 54, died Wednesday, September 28, 2011, at his residence in the Birmingham Ridge Community. He was born in Davenport, Iowa on September 29, 1956 to Wayne Kenneth and Bonita Kathryn Gardner Piatt. He was a graduate of Itawamba Community College with a degree in tool and die. He owned and...

Karol Voge

Karol Voge

September 24, 2011

Obituary for Karol Jean Voge Natchez Trace Villas - Karol Jean Voge, 69, died Saturday, September 24, 2011, at her sisters home in Oxford after a sudden illness. She was born July 25, 1942, in Oxford, to Richard Edwin and Gene Alberstett Keye. A 1960 graduate of University High School in Oxford, she then went on to attend The University...

W Walls

W Walls

September 21, 2011

Obituary for W. L. Walls Tupelo E. L. Walls, 74, died Wednesday, September 21, 2011, at Community Hospice at Darlington Oaks after an extended illness. A Pontotoc native, he was born December 14, 1936 to Bera and Annie Mae Simmons Walls. He served eight years with the 155th Unit of The National Guard. Heloved to spending time keeping his car...