OBITUARIES
Carl Tallant
September 8, 2011
Obituary for Carl Mays Tallant Mr. Carl M. Tallant died Thursday, September 8, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center. Services will be 3 p.m. Saturday at the Jefferson Street Chapel of W.E. Pegues. Burial will be in Tupelo Memorial Park. Visitation will be 1 p.m. to service time Saturday.
Mary West
September 8, 2011
Obituary for Mary Alice West Tupelo - Mary Alice Feemster West, 76, died Thursday, September 8, 2011, at the North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born February 9, 1935 to John Houston and Ruth Newman Feemster. She grew up in Corinth but moved to Tupelo where she graduated from Tupelo High School in 1952. She then attended Itawamba Community College...
Idell Butler
September 5, 2011
Obituary for Idell Butler Tupelo - Mildred Idell Goodwin Butler, 86, died Monday, September 5, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born May 5, 1925 to Harley and Ruth Fulton Goodman. Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday, September 8, 2011 at The Jefferson Street Chapel of W. E. Pegues with Bro. David Hendrix and Bro. O.D. Hester...
Ernest Smith
September 5, 2011
Obituary for Ernest J. Smith Tupelo - Ernest J. Smith, 83, died Monday, September 5, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A Lee County native and lifelong resident, he was born February 21, 1928, to Clyde and Vera Robbins Smith. He was a 1948 graduate of Mooreville High School, earned his associates degree from Itawamba...
Betty Palmer
September 2, 2011
Obituary for Betty Quay Palmer Eggville - Betty Quay Palmer, 69, died Friday, September 2, 2011, at The Sanctuary Hospice House. She was born March 19, 1942 in Lee County to Clyde and Vera Robbins Smith. She was a 1961 graduate of Mooreville High School. She was a member of Eggville Free Will Baptist Church. Services will be 2 p.m....
Frances Joyner
September 1, 2011
Obituary for Frances Elkin Joyner Tupelo Frances Elkin Joyner, 101, died Thursday, September 1, 2011, at The Sanctuary Hospice House after a brief illness. She was born November 23, 1909, to Dr. Thomas Fitzgerald and Lottie Armstrong Elkin. A lifelong resident of Tupelo, she graduated from Tupelo High School and National Park Seminary, a girls finishing school in Forest Glen,...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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