OBITUARIES

Anna Mask

Anna Mask

August 31, 2011

Obituary for Anna C. Mask CAROLINA - Anna Carrie Mask, 78, died Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born in Pontotoc County on Feb. 4, 1933, to Benjamin and Vivian Carrie Archie Clayton. She was a longtime resident of the Carolina community. She was a lifelong and active member of Richmond Pentecostal Church. Her...

William

William

August 29, 2011

Obituary for William "Sonny" Fowler Shannon William Vester Sonny Fowler, 70, died Monday, August 29, 2011, at the Sanctuary Hospice House after an extended illness. A Nettleton native, he was born March 28, 1941 to Vester T. Jiggs and Laverne Young Fowler. He was a Baptist by faith. Most of his life he worked in the furniture industry. He loved...

William Fowler

William Fowler

August 29, 2011

Obituary for William "Sonny" Fowler Shannon William Vester Sonny Fowler, 70, died Monday, August 29, 2011, at the Sanctuary Hospice House after an extended illness. A Nettleton native, he was born March 28, 1941 to Vester T. Jiggs and Laverne Young Fowler. He was a Baptist by faith. Most of his life he worked in the furniture industry. He loved...

George W. Bell

George W. Bell

August 27, 2011

GEORGE WINFIELD BELL Guntown - George W. Bell, 85, died Saturday, August 27, 2011, at Baldwyn Nursing Facility after a brief illness. He was born in Lee County on October 6, 1925 to Willie Milton and Zelma McCarley Bell. He was a United States Navy veteran of World War II where he served aboard the U.S.S. Raleigh. He was a...

Debra Fowler

Debra Fowler

August 27, 2011

Obituary for Debra Fowler Saltillo - Debra Ann Fowler, 50, died Saturday, August 27, 2011, at her residence. Scottsburg, Indiana native, she was born May 7, 1961 to Archie and Marjorie Ross. She loved riding motorcycles, fishing and the outdoors. The family will handle services at a later date. W. E. Pegues Funeral Directors is in charge of the local...

George Bell

George Bell

August 27, 2011

Obituary for George W. Bell Guntown - George W. Bell, 85, died Saturday, August 27, 2011, at Baldwyn Nursing Facility after a brief illness. He was born in Lee County on October 6, 1925 to Willie Milton and Zelma McCarley Bell. He was a United States Navy veteran of World War II where he served aboard the U.S.S. Raleigh. He...

Lucy Boyd

Lucy Boyd

August 25, 2011

Obituary for Lucy Boyd AL - Louise Lucy Boyd, 78, died Thursday, August 25, 2011, at her residence in Rogersville, Alabama. She was born in Shannon on April 28, 1933 to Homer and Janie Clark Childers. She was a member of Good Springs Baptist Church in Rogersville. She loved her gardening, flowers, crocheting and being surrounded by her family and...

Frances Walker

Frances Walker

August 23, 2011

Obituary for Frances Walker Memphis - Frances Boggan Walker, 50, died Tuesday, August 23, 2011, at The Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo after an extended illness. A Tupelo native, she was born March 4, 1961, to Roy Boggan, Jr. and Ruby Nell Filgo Boggan. A 1979 graduate of Tupelo High School, she then went on to Mississippi State University where...

Basil Fain

Basil Fain

August 23, 2011

Obituary for Basil Fain Fulton - Basil Lee Fain, 92, died Tuesday, August 23, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. Born October 18, 1918, in the Blue Springs Community, he was the son of Lemuel Paul and Artie Rebecca Bedwell Fain. He was a graduate of Tupelo High School and attended Louisiana State University on...

Donald Wright

Donald Wright

August 21, 2011

Obituary for Donald Wright Saltillo - Donald Wright, 73, died Sunday, August 21, 2011, at The Sanctuary Hospice House. A Tupelo native, he was born October 21, 1937, to Frank and Sallie Wright and was a graduate of Tupelo High School. He was retired as owner from Best Rubber Stamp and Engraving in Memphis. He lived in Saltillo for the...

Faye Miller

Faye Miller

August 20, 2011

Obituary for Faye Wheeler Miller Tupelo Faye Wheeler Miller, 79, died Saturday, August 20, 2011, at the Sanctuary Hospice House after an extended illness. An Itawamba County native, she was born March 15, 1932 to Chester Pierce and Lou Ethel Sheffield Cayson. She moved to Tupelo with her family in her early teens and had been a Tupelo resident since...

Cleo Bishop

Cleo Bishop

August 19, 2011

Saltillo - James Cleo "Bud" Bishop, 65, died Friday, August 19, 2011, at the Jaquith Nursing Facility in Jackson after an extended illness. A native of Lee County, he was born January 26, 1946, to Charlie and Beatrice Price Bishop. He worked trimming limbs around power lines. He enjoyed fishing, walking collecting cans for recycling, and playing cards. He was...

Bill Lee

Bill Lee

August 19, 2011

Obituary for Bill Lee Saltillo - Robert E. Bill Lee, 80, died Friday, August 19, 2011, at his residence after an extended illness. A native of Lee County, he was born January 29, 1931, to Ermon and Leora Van Buskirk Lee. He served in the US Army during the 1950's and was employed 47 years with Tombigbee Electric Company, retiring...

Jimmy Hutson

Jimmy Hutson

August 16, 2011

Obituary for Jimmy Hutson 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)

Mayme Whitten

Mayme Whitten

August 16, 2011

Obituary for Mayme Lucille Whitten Tupelo - Mayme Lucille Whitten, 99, died Tuesday, August 16, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born April 24, 1912 in Burnsville, Mississippi to Willie Shell and Bertie Elledge Norman. She graduated from Itawamba Agricultural High School in Fulton, Mississippi and later attended Draughons Business College in Memphis, Tennessee. She was a...

Julis

Julis

August 15, 2011

Obituary for Julis "Bud" Spann Tupelo - Julius V. Bud Spann, 67, died Monday, August 15, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center. He was born January 15, 1944 in Memphis, Tennessee to Julius V. Spann and Annie B. Monaghan Spann. He graduated from Central High School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and then attended The University of Mississippi. While there, he...

Julis Spann

Julis Spann

August 15, 2011

Obituary for Julis "Bud" Spann Tupelo - Julius V. Bud Spann, 67, died Monday, August 15, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center. He was born January 15, 1944 in Memphis, Tennessee to Julius V. Spann and Annie B. Monaghan Spann. He graduated from Central High School in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and then attended The University of Mississippi. While there, he...

Elmer Deaton Witcher

Elmer Deaton Witcher

August 13, 2011

Obituary for Elmer Lee Deaton Witcher Services will be 3 p.m. Monday at The Jefferson Street Chapel of W. E. Pegues. Visitation will be 1 p.m. until service time, Monday.

Dorothy Bush

Dorothy Bush

August 13, 2011

Obituary for Dorothy Hankins Bush Memphis - Dorothy Hankins Bush, 83, died Saturday, August 13, 2011, at Baptist Hospital, East in Memphis, Tennessee. She was born in Ecru, Mississippi on July 27, 1928 to Andrew Jackson and Quillie Kinglsey Hankins. She attended Algoma High School and graduated from Saltillo High School. Earlier in life, she worked as a bookkeeper. She...

Willie Gann

Willie Gann

August 13, 2011

Obituary for Willie "Billy" Gann Verona - Willie Doyle Billy Gann, 51, died Saturday, August 13, 2011, at Community Hospice at Darlington Oaks after an extended illness. He was born in Pontotoc on February 17, 1960 to Roy and Elaine Robbins Gann. Services will be 11:30 a.m. Monday, August 15, 2011 at The Jefferson Street Chapel of W. E. Pegues...