OBITUARIES
Rebecca Cates Mattox
June 25, 2022
Rebecca Cates Mattox Tupelo- Rebecca O’rene Cates Mattox, 90, died Saturday, June 25, 2022 at North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born April 6, 1932 in Frankfort, Kentucky. She is the daughter of Wilbur and Henrietta Japs. After graduating high school in Louisville, Kentucky she earned her Bachelor’s from Bethesda University. She retired after 25 years from North Mississippi Medical...
May Dixon Livingston
June 25, 2022
May Dixon Livingston Tupelo- May Chandler Dixon Livingston, 100, died Saturday, June 25, 2022 Avonlea Assisted Living in Tupelo. She was born in Cocoa, Florida to Augusta and Russell Dixon on May 6, 1922. She was married to Cayce Banks Livingston for almost 68 years when he died in July 2012. May worked many years as a bookkeeper and was...
Gary Nolen
June 23, 2022
Baldwyn--Gary M. Nolen, age 74, passed away June 23, 2022, at home with family and loved ones. He was a proud retired Ironworker of Local #167 of Memphis, and a Navy Veteran. We will be reminded of him always by all the endeavors he had a hand in throughout and around our city of Memphis. Like the New Bridge, the...
Jan Dorsett
June 22, 2022
Baldwyn- Janice Marie Jordan Dorsett, 71, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, at her home. She was born on December 27, 1950, in Kalamazoo, Michigan to the late Gerald Edward Jordan and Grace Leona McKibbin Jordan. In 1966, she moved to Tupelo where she graduated from Tupelo High School in 1969. She joined the workforce in 1987 and...
Shan Weatherly
June 18, 2022
Belden—Ira Shannon Weatherly, age 66, passed away Saturday, June 18, 2022 at the Sanctuary Hospice House after a courageous battle with cancer. Shan was, first and foremost, a faithful man of God, was devoted to his family every day, and loyal to his many friends through the years. Shan was a longtime faithful member of Calvary Baptist Church in Tupelo...
Frankie Martin
June 17, 2022
Frankie Martin Tupelo- Bruce Franklin “Frankie” Martin, Jr. was struck and killed by a motor vehicle twelve days after celebrating his 44th birthday. Although Frankie’s time was short, he lived every moment to the fullest and enjoyed the simple things. A great day would include camping, fishing, tinkering on a car, listening to his favorite music and drinking a cold...
Billy Hamblin, Sr.
June 12, 2022
Tupelo--Billy Wicks Hamblin, Sr. passed away Sunday, June 12, 2022, at the North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo following a brief illness. He lived a full life of 85 years. Billy was born November 17, 1936, in Lee County to Jack and Gladys Gardner Hamblin. Billy grew up in Baldwyn and graduated from Baldwyn High School in 1955. He attended...
Jim Willis
June 10, 2022
Tupelo-- Jimmy Leon Willis, Jr., 50, died Friday, June 10, 2022, at his home. He was born in Tupelo on November 23, 1971, to Jimmy Leon Willis, Sr., and Mary Jean Kelly Willis. He was a 1989 graduate of Tupelo High School. He also attended Itawamba Community College in Fulton and Mississippi College in Clinton. He worked at J. T....
Virginia Neely Taylor
June 8, 2022
Tupelo--Virginia Neely Taylor, age 99, passed away at her home in Tupelo June 8, 2022 after a short illness. She was born May 14, 1923, in Plain, Mississippi to Ed and Doshie Neely. She graduated from Florence High School in 1941, and finished business school in Jackson. She worked for the Selective Service Department during World War II. She married...
Betty Barber
June 1, 2022
Tupelo- Betty Marie Johnson Barber, 95, passed away Wednesday, June 1, 2022. She was born October 3, 1926, to Curtis and Johnnie Lou Williams Johnson in Arlington, Texas. The family returned to Lee County, Mississippi in December of 1939. Following her graduation from Mooreville High School in 1944, she attended Draughn’s Business College in Jackson. When she returned to Tupelo,...
Theresa Hancock Kilgore
June 1, 2022
Tupelo--Theresa Hancock Kilgore, 93, passed from this world Wednesday, June 1, 2022, in Jackson after a brief illness. She was born on July 6, 1928, in the Darden Community of Union County, to the late William Isom Hancock and Berlin Sanderson Hancock. Theresa was a graduate of Macedonia High School and the Mississippi State College for Women. After professing her...
Brian E. Thrasher
May 29, 2022
Brian E. Thrasher Tupelo- Brian E. Thrasher, 45, died at his home, Sunday, May 29, 2022. He is the son of Jackie and Debbie Thrasher born on May 4, 1977. Brian enjoyed hunting and fishing, he was an avid hot rod car enthusiast. He really loved working and tinkering with cars and trucks of all kinds. He leaves his parents,...
Brandon White
May 28, 2022
Guntown- Brandon Michael White, 45, died after an extended battle with terminal brain cancer caused from Neurofibromatosis Type 1, NF1, on Saturday, May 28, 2022, at his home. He is the son of Randy White and Teresa Buse White; he was born on October 3, 1976 in Tupelo. On June 10, 2000, he married Wendy Yates White. Brandon adored children,...
Pat Carr
May 28, 2022
Saltillo--Joseph Patrick “Pat” Carr passed away Saturday, May 28, 2022 at the Courtyards Nursing Facility in Fulton at the age of 77. Pat was born in Tupelo on September 19, 1944 to Joe F. and Cecilia Gusmus Carr. He was raised in Saltillo and graduated from Saltillo High School in 1963. While in School, he was on the basketball and...
Alvis Coker
May 27, 2022
Birmingham Ridge—Alvis Coker, age 95, passed away Saturday, May 27, 2022 at the North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. He was born July 25, 1926, in Union County, the son of Bud and Ailene Coker. A member of the “Greatest Generation,” Alvis proudly served his country as a United States Navy Veteran of World War II. After his...
Michael C. Stamps Sr.
May 27, 2022
Michael C. Stamps Sr. Tupelo—Michael Cornealius Stamps Sr. passed away Friday, May 27, 2022 at the State Veterans Home in Oxford. He was 67 years old. Michael was born in Cleveland on November 30, 1954, the son of Emerson Stamps and Annie Lee Cox. He served his country proudly in the United States Army. For many years, Michael served as...
Estene Stanford
May 24, 2022
Eggville Community--Trannie Estene Stanford of Eggville, Mississippi, passed peacefully into the Lord’s arms on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 surrounded by her loving Husband and family. Estene was born in Jasper, Alabama on September 27, 1937 to Dolphus and Edie Tidwell Forrester. She married Y.L. Williams and they made their home in Lee County where they raised six children together until...
Ken McCarty Jr.
May 24, 2022
Palmetto—Kenneth Wayne McCarty Jr. passed away Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at his home. He was 53 years old. Ken was born October 9, 1968 in Tupelo, the son of Kenneth Wayne McCarty Sr. and Geri Gunter McCarty. He was a hard worker and, along with his father, an owner of Ken McCarty Trucking. Truly an outdoorsman, Ken loved to be...
Jean Lee Davis
May 23, 2022
Tupelo--Jean Lee Cutcliff Davis, 77, passed away Monday, May 23rd, at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo, with her family by her side. She was born June 20th, 1944, in Amory, to Leo Alexander and Warrenne Brownlee Cutcliff. She married Pat Davis of Fulton, on August 21, 1966. She was a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. Jean Lee will be remembered...
Doris "Sally" Hankins
May 23, 2022
Tupelo—Ruby Doris “Sally” Hankins passed away Monday, May 23, 2022, at the Sunshine Nursing Facility. She was 93 years old. Doris was born August 25, 1928 to Quitman and Eva Price Morgan. She was a lifelong resident of Tupelo. Doris worked for J.C. Penny for many years as a sales associate. After her retirement, she then went to work at...
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