OBITUARIES
Charles E. Moreland
June 8, 2008
Tupelo - Charles Elgan Moreland, 87, died Sunday, June 8, 2008, at The Mississippi State Veterans Home in Oxford after an extended illness. A native of Amory, he was born May 29, 1921 to Archie and Ella Roberts Moreland. He attended Belden High School, but chose to join the U.S. Navy during World War II instead of graduating. He served...
Ronald
June 6, 2008
Tupelo - Ronald Douglas "Bull" Long, 58, died Friday, June 6, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. A Tupelo native, he was born February 2, 1950 to Gene Long and Syble Estes Long Blackwell. A 1968 graduate of Tupelo High School, he then attended Hinds Junior College. Earlier in his life, he worked at Rockwell...
Ronald " Bull" Long
June 6, 2008
Tupelo - Ronald Douglas "Bull" Long, 58, died Friday, June 6, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. A Tupelo native, he was born February 2, 1950 to Gene Long and Syble Estes Long Blackwell. A 1968 graduate of Tupelo High School, he then attended Hinds Junior College. Earlier in his life, he worked at Rockwell...
Roy McNutt
June 5, 2008
Tupelo - Roy Fain McNutt, 84, died Thursday, June 5, 2008, at The Sanctuary Hospice House after an extended illness. A Guntown native, he was born November 24, 1923 to William Pleasant and Lottie Mary Fain McNutt. A 1942 graduate of Saltillo High School, he then went on to Union University where he received a B.S. degree in Education. He...
Mamie E. Perkins
June 4, 2008
Tupelo - Mamie E. Perkins, 90, died Wednesday, June 4, 2008, at Cedars Heathcare Center after an extended illness. She was born August 18, 1917 in Arkansas to Rufus and Nellie Betts Waldrip. She was a nurse for many years, working at the Oxford and Batesville Hospitals and retiring from the North Mississippi Medical Center in 1984. She was a...
Mamie Perkins
June 4, 2008
Tupelo - Mamie E. Perkins, 90, died Wednesday, June 4, 2008, at Cedars Heathcare Center after an extended illness. She was born August 18, 1917 in Arkansas to Rufus and Nellie Betts Waldrip. She was a nurse for many years, working at the Oxford and Batesville Hospitals and retiring from the North Mississippi Medical Center in 1984. She was a...
Bonita Hester
June 4, 2008
Nettleton - Bonita Hester, 54, died Wednesday, June 4, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A Tupelo native, she was born March 11, 1954 to Luther Excell and Jimmy Lee Clark McKinney. She was a resident of Nettleton and formerly lived in the Mooreville area. She loved her family and friends. No services will be...
Helen Barnes
June 4, 2008
Pontocola - Hazel Grace Barnes, 69, died Wednesday, June 4, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after a sudden illness. A Pontocola native and lifelong resident, she was born May 20, 1939 to Archie C. and Vera Ivy Barnes. She was the owner of a cleaning service. She enjoyed crocheting, ceramics, reading, and her two cats, Teddy and Pumpkin....
Helen Coker
June 3, 2008
Macedonia - Helen L. Coker, 79, died Tuesday, June 3, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. A Birmingham Ridge native, she was born March 15, 1929 to Pruitt and Cecil Hendrix Bolen. Earlier in her life, she worked for Hunter Sadler as a seamstress and then as school cafeteria manager at Belden and later at...
Gertrude Giles
June 3, 2008
Tupelo--Gertrude Hailey Giles, 93, died Tuesday, June 3, 2008, at The Sanctuary Hospice House after an extended illness. She was born September 2, 1914, in Meridian to Gertrude Hailey Chisholm and Ernest Robert Chisholm. A graduate of Tupelo High School in 1932, she worked and lived in Tupelo for most of her life, except for several years in Pontotoc. She...
Margaret Stanford
June 2, 2008
MARGARET L. STANFORD Tupelo - Margaret Allyne Lackey Stanford died Monday, June 2, 2008, after a sudden illness. A Lee County native, she was born February 6, 1934 to the late Turner and Edna Dearman Lackey. She was a graduate of Belden High School. She was one of the first female real estate agents in the area and worked for...
Vernece Christian Robbins
June 1, 2008
Auburn - Vernece Christian Robbins, 71, died Sunday, June 1, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A Pontotoc County native, she was born December 25, 1936 to the late Thomas Dallas and Lizzie Jane Clement Curry. She worked for several years as a seamstress. She was a member of Auburn Baptist Church. Services will be...
Paulene Dunaway
June 1, 2008
Plantersville - Paulene Mae Dunaway, 82, died Sunday, June 1, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A Lee County native, she was born March 5, 1926 to the late Beland and Flora Mae Bell Dill. She was a homemaker and took care of her grandchildren. Her kindness and maternal instincts touched the lives of many...
Vernece Robbins
June 1, 2008
Auburn - Vernece Christian Robbins, 71, died Sunday, June 1, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A Pontotoc County native, she was born December 25, 1936 to the late Thomas Dallas and Lizzie Jane Clement Curry. She worked for several years as a seamstress. She was a member of Auburn Baptist Church. Services will be...
Virgil Scott
May 31, 2008
Okolona - Marvin Virgil Scott, 74, died Saturday, May 31, 2008, at his residence after an extended illness. A Saltillo native, he was born October 23, 1933 to the late Charlie Thomas and Esther Ella House Scott. He married Marlene Scott in 1954 and they lived in Danville, Illinois and Tyler, Texas before returning to North Mississippi six years ago....
Etoil Walls
May 31, 2008
Tupelo - Etoil Walls, 92, died Saturday, May 31, 2008, at The Sanctuary Hospice House after an extended illness. A Union County native, she was born January 28, 1916 to the late Luther Alexander and Myrtle Ledbetter Gray. She was a member of Parkway Baptist Church, where she was the oldest member. Services will be 3:00 p.m. Monday, June 2,...
Chester Fitts
May 31, 2008
Oxford - Daniel Chester Fitts, 90, of Pontotoc died Saturday, May 31, 2008, at Mississippi State Veterans Home after an extended illness. He was born March 2, 1918 to the late Daniel Webster and Mary Lee Breeden Fitts in Hardeman County, TN. He was a member of First Baptist Church Tupelo. He served in Company B, 96th Chemical Mortar Battalion...
Nadine Lancaster
May 30, 2008
Tupelo - Georgia Nadine Lancaster, 83, died Friday, May 30, 2008, at Community Hospice at Darlington Oaks after an extended illness. A Jackson, Tenn. native, she was born June 21, 1924, to the late George Dewey and Mable L. Bishop. She was a homemaker and enjoyed playing golf and sewing, playing with her great-grandchildren and her little dachshund, Lucy. She...
Gueary
May 28, 2008
Saltillo - Gueary Thomas "Tom" Reed, Jr., 72, died Tuesday, May 27, 2008 due to an automobile accident. A native of Cookville, Tenn., he was born March 20, 1936 to the late Gueary Thomas Reed, Sr and Gola Stinson Reed. He graduated from Lynnville High School and then went on to University of Tennessee at Martin where he earned his...
Gueary Tom ) Reed
May 28, 2008
Saltillo - Gueary Thomas "Tom" Reed, Jr., 72, died Tuesday, May 27, 2008 due to an automobile accident. A native of Cookville, Tenn., he was born March 20, 1936 to the late Gueary Thomas Reed, Sr and Gola Stinson Reed. He graduated from Lynnville High School and then went on to University of Tennessee at Martin where he earned his...
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