OBITUARIES
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Willie
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...
Harold Wesson
August 12, 2011
Obituary for Harold E. Wesson Mooreville - Harold E. Wesson, 84, died Friday, August 12, 2011, at the Sanctuary Hospice House. He was born in Lee County on May 1, 1927 to Gaston and Annie Jarvis Wesson. He was a veteran of World War II with the United States Navy. He retired from Eljer Manufacturing and before that he worked...
Gene Carroll
August 10, 2011
Obituary for Gene Carroll Grand Prairie Texas --Gene Carroll, 74, died Wednesday, August 10, 2011, at the Arlington Memorial Community Hospice in Arlington, Tex. after an extended illness. He was born in August of 1936 to John R. and Lucille Arnold Carroll. Gene moved from Tupelo to Texas where he resided with his family who loved and supported him greatly...
John Hurt
August 7, 2011
Obituary for John Hurt Tupelo, Miss John Earl Hurt, 92, died Sunday, August 7, 2011 at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo. He was born January 4, 1919 near Martin, Tennessee. He lived in Union City, Tennessee, from the age of eleven until he joined the United States Army Air Force in 1940, where he served in both the European and...
Sandra Robbins
August 4, 2011
Obituary for Sandra Robbins Verona - Sandra Lee Robbins, 55, died Thursday, August 4, 2011, at The Sanctuary Hospice House after a brief illness. A Tupelo native and resident of Verona, she was born May 19, 1956, to Leo and Josie Pope. She graduated from White Station High School in Memphis and was employed at the Mississippi State University Extention...
Betty McLarty
August 3, 2011
Obituary for Betty McLarty Saltillo - Betty McLarty, 74, died Wednesday, August 3, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born in the Eggville Community on December 3, 1936 to David Arnold and Lucy Irene Holder Harris. She was an active member of Blair Gospel Tabernacle in the Blair Community. She enjoyed knitting, crocheting, traveling and visiting people....
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