OBITUARIES

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...

James Blaylock

James Blaylock

September 21, 2011

Obituary for James Blaylock Tupelo - James Olen Blaylock, 62, died Wednesday, September 21, 2011, at his residence after an extended illness. He was born October 12, 1948, to B. M. and Vernie D. Peoples Blaylock. He liked to play cards, dominoes, and shoot pool. He was a Baptist by faith. Services will be 11:00 a.m. Friday, September 23, 2011...

Lavell Whiren

Lavell Whiren

September 21, 2011

Obituary for Lavell Whiren Tupelo - Lavell Palmer Whiren, 91, died Wednesday, September 21, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center. A Bigbee native, she was born August 3, 1920 to John Talbert and Mary Cordelia Lancaster Palmer. She is the sole survivor of seven siblings. Before moving to Tupelo in the early 80s she lived in Slovack, Arkansas, where...

Betty Marshall

Betty Marshall

September 20, 2011

Obituary for Betty Marshall Tupelo - Betty Jo Marshall, 85, died Tuesday, September 20, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. A Missouri native, she was born May 4, 1926 to Joe and Fern M. Hillme Johnson. In 1996, she moved from Idaho and made Columbus her home. She was a Nazarene by faith. Her passion...

Robert Spear

Robert Spear

September 19, 2011

Obituary for Robert Spear Tupelo - Robert Earl Spear, 51, died Monday, September 19, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. He was born in Miami, Florida on October 10, 1959, to Bobby Hensley and Earline Smith Spear. A graduate of Tupelo High School, he then went on to attend Itawamba Jr. College and Mississippi State...

Leland (Lee) Duncan, Sr.

Leland (Lee) Duncan, Sr.

September 18, 2011

Obituary for Leland Miller (Lee) Duncan, Sr. Tupelo - Leland Miller (Lee) Duncan, Sr., 89, died Sunday, September 18, 2011, at The Sanctuary Hospice House after an extended illness. A native of Ingomar, he was born March 21, 1922 to Pittser Miller and Edith Mae Goodwin Duncan. He was raised in Ingomar and had been a Tupelo resident since 1950....

Leland Miller

Leland Miller

September 18, 2011

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Linda Wilson Hester

Linda Wilson Hester

September 18, 2011

Obituary for Linda Ann Wilson Hester Tupelo - Linda Ann Wilson Hester, 61, died Sunday, September 18, 2011, at her residence in Tupelo. Visitation will be 5 - 8 p.m. Monday, September 19, 2011 at Pegues Funeral Home Tupelo. Expressions of sympathy may be left at www.peguesfuneralhome.com

Fred Wiygul

Fred Wiygul

September 15, 2011

Obituary for Fred Wiygul Skyline - Fred N. Wiygul, 90, died Thursday, September 15, 2011, at Tupelo Nursing and Rehabilitation Center after an extended illness. An Itawamba County native, he was born August 8, 1921, to Ephriam H. and May Shumpert Wiygul. In 1938, he graduated from Verona High School as Valedictorian and then attended Itawamba Junior College. During World...

Betty Peters

Betty Peters

September 12, 2011

Obituary for Betty Peters Tupelo - Betty Sue Conlee Peters, 76, died Monday, September 12, 2011, at the Countrywood Plantation in Mantachie after an extended illness. A Plantersville native, she was born June 30, 1935 to Walter Monts and Mary Ruby Kelly Conlee. She was a 1953 grauate of Plantersville High School. She worked over 35 years for the Peoples...

Burless Oyler

Burless Oyler

September 11, 2011

Obituary for Burless J. Oyler Tupelo - Burless J. Oyler, 66, of Tupelo passed away Sept. 11, 2011. He was born on Feb. 24, 1945 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Joe M. Oyler and the late Imogene Cornutt Oyler. He graduated from S. D. Lee High School in Columbus, Miss., and graduated from Mississippi State University in 1973. He volunteered for...