OBITUARIES

Rebecca Lynn Barrett

Rebecca Lynn Barrett

May 20, 2008

Saltillo " Rebecca Lynn Barrett, 49, died Tuesday, May 20, 2008, at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Belleville, Ind. after an extended illness. She was born May 28, 1958 in Ohio to Paul Charles and Rusty Price Barrett. She worked as an assembler for a sporting goods manufacturer. A resident of Saltillo, she enjoyed working word puzzels and singing and loved...

Pat Stackhouse

Pat Stackhouse

May 20, 2008

Tremont - Patricia Ann Stackhouse, 71, died Tuesday, May 20, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A native of Peru, Il., she was born May 31, 1936 to Roy and Catherine Brough Stackhouse. At the age of 12 she moved to Trussville, Ala. and graduated from Hewitt-Trussville High School. She then went on to Jefferson...

Rebecca Barrett

Rebecca Barrett

May 20, 2008

Saltillo " Rebecca Lynn Barrett, 49, died Tuesday, May 20, 2008, at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Belleville, Ind. after an extended illness. She was born May 28, 1958 in Ohio to Paul Charles and Rusty Price Barrett. She worked as an assembler for a sporting goods manufacturer. A resident of Saltillo, she enjoyed working word puzzels and singing and loved...

Patricia Lucas

Patricia Lucas

May 18, 2008

DORSEY " Patricia Fay Lucas, 67, died Sunday, May 18, 2008, at HomePlace in Saltillo after a brief illness. A Central City, Ky. native, she was born Oct. 26, 1940 to Kenneth and Lillie Marie Casbier Noffsinger. Survivors include four daughters, Gina Glidewell (Terry) of Saltillo, Penny McFee (Greg) of Newland, N.C., Vivian Hadley (Donald) of Okeechobee, Fla., and Penny...

Dena Ellzey

Dena Ellzey

May 18, 2008

Tupelo - Dena Ellzey, 83, died Sunday, May 18, 2008, at The Sanctuary Hospice House after a lengthy illness. She was born May 14, 1925, in San Luis Portosi, Mexico to Tolstoy and Margarita Castellanos Binswanger. After growing up in Mexico, she moved to Carlsbad, New Mexico at the age of 16 where she graduated from high school. She lived...

Robert Heflin

Robert Heflin

May 16, 2008

Tupelo - Robert Heflin, 72, died Friday, May 16, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A Baldwyn native, he was born November 9, 1935 to the late Lloyd and Ethel Wood Heflin. He graduated from Baldwyn High School in 1955 where he was active in football and basketball. During that time he was known as...

Midrose Kennedy

Midrose Kennedy

May 15, 2008

Tupelo - Midrose Kennedy, 94, died Thursday, May 15, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A native of Marion County, Ala., she was born November 5, 1913 to the late James and Annie Murray. She was a member of St. Luke United Methodist Church. Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at The Jefferson Street Chapel...

Eileen McKissack

Eileen McKissack

May 14, 2008

Tupelo - Eileen Clara Mckissack, 91, died Wednesday, May 14, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A Coldfield, Tenn. native, she was born April 28, 1917 to the late Albert and Martha Butler. Earlier in her life she worked as a nurses assistant in a nursing home in Birmingham, Ala., and also in the Navy...

Otis Box

Otis Box

May 12, 2008

Union Grove - Otis Box, 84, died Monday, May 12, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A native of the Nettleton area, he was born March 6, 1924 to Thomas Harvey and Mattie Vess Box. He was a U.S. Army Veteran of World War II, serving in Iwo Jima, Okinawa and other conflicts in the...

Otis

Otis

May 12, 2008

Union Grove - Otis Box, 84, died Monday, May 12, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A native of the Nettleton area, he was born March 6, 1924 to Thomas Harvey and Mattie Vess Box. He was a U.S. Army Veteran of World War II, serving in Iwo Jima, Okinawa and other conflicts in the...

Dale Little

Dale Little

May 11, 2008

Blue Springs - Shelby Dale Little, 69, died Sunday, May 11, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A Monroe County native, he was born November 30, 1938 to the late Shelly George and Othel P. Palmer Little. He was a United States Navy veteran. He worked 30 years as a tree surgeon for several companies...

Syble Angle

Syble Angle

May 9, 2008

SYBLE ANGLE Saltillo - Syble Angle went to be with our Lord and Savior on May 9, 2008. Born March 2, 1931 to Harvey F. and Mary Rainbolt Porter in Bastrop, LA. She married John H. Angle on November 11th, 1949. She retired from Blue Bell Manufacturing after 25 plus years of service. She worked for Sam's Club in Tupelo...

Don Dakin

Don Dakin

May 9, 2008

DON PINGO DAKIN Tupelo " Don Pingo Dakin, 63, died Friday, May 9, 2008, at his residence in Lake Piomingo. A Gary, Indiana native, he was born July 2, 1944 to the late Albert and Estelle Rodzynski Dakin. A graduate of Western New Mexico University in 1966 with a degree in Economics, he worked at Youngstown Steel Industry in Indiana,...

Lansdell

Lansdell

May 9, 2008

GENE LANSDELL Tupelo - Gene Lansdell, 72, died Friday, May 9, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center. A Lee County native, he was born January 23, 1936 to the late Samuel D. and Rennie Pannell Lansdell. He married his wife, Barbara, of 54 years in 1953. From 1961 until 1986, he was a resident of Michigan City, Indiana where...

Gene Lansdell

Gene Lansdell

May 9, 2008

GENE LANSDELL Tupelo - Gene Lansdell, 72, died Friday, May 9, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center. A Lee County native, he was born January 23, 1936 to the late Samuel D. and Rennie Pannell Lansdell. He married his wife, Barbara, of 54 years in 1953. From 1961 until 1986, he was a resident of Michigan City, Indiana where...

Elizabeth Sheffield

Elizabeth Sheffield

May 8, 2008

Tupelo - Elizabeth Sheffield, 91, died Thursday, May 8, 2008, at The Sanctuary Hospice House after an extended illness. A Plantersville native, she was born August 27, 1916 to Tom and Bessie Brinkley Foster. She married Lurton Sheffield October 22, 1934. During her working career she worked in the garment industry. She loved animals and flowers, especially roses. She was...

Elsie Collier

Elsie Collier

May 7, 2008

Tupelo - Elsie M. Collier, 90, died Wednesday, May 7, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. She was born October 14, 1917, in Itawamba Co. to G.E. and Verda Stanford Moore. She lived all of her life in Tupelo, graduating from East Tupelo High School in 1936, where she was a member of the basketball...

Mldred Landers

Mldred Landers

May 7, 2008

Tupelo - Mildred Ellen Johnson Landers, 94, died Wednesday, May 7, 2008, at her residence after an extended illness. She was born September 28, 1913, in Prentiss County to Samuel Jepha and Amanda Blizzard Johnson. While making her home in Memphis most of her life, she had also lived over 20 years in Tupelo. She was a longtime member of...

Louise Parker

Louise Parker

May 5, 2008

Nettleton - Sarah Louise Edwards Parker, 83, died Monday, May 5, 2008, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after a lengthy illness. A Mississippi native, she was born October 14, 1924 to Willie Ed and Ethel Mae Rhudy Edwards. She lived the majority of her life in the Nettleton and Plantersville area, graduating from Nettleton High School in 1942. She...

Ruby Middleton

Ruby Middleton

May 5, 2008

Tupelo - Ruby Lee Middleton, 79, died Monday, May 5, 2008, at The Sanctuary Hospice House after a brief illness. A native of Itawamba County, she was born September 25, 1928 to Fred L. and Mishia Stevens Ruth. Along with her husband, Durward Middleton, she was co-owner of Weatherall Printing and later founded Middleton Office Supply until they sold it...