OBITUARIES
Ruby Jean Williams
December 14, 2020
Ruby Jean Williams, 86, passed away Monday, December 14, 2020 at her home after a lengthy illness. A native of Union County and lifelong resident, she was born January 6, 1934, the daughter of Herman David and Lula Maybell Browning, the youngest of ten children. Ruby worked 30 years for Brookwood Furniture Manufacturing and after her retirement she continued to...
Jim O. DeVaughn
December 14, 2020
Tupelo—Jim O. DeVaughn, 62, passed away Monday, December 14, 2020 at the North Mississippi Medical Center following a brief illness. A Lee County native and lifelong resident, he was born September 22, 1958 to Oran and Ida Mae DeVaughn. Jim worked for several years in the warehouse at STI. A true animal lover, Jim took care of his mule and...
Vernon Boyd
December 14, 2020
Tupelo—Quinton Vernon Boyd, 59, passed away Monday, December 14, 2020 at the North Mississippi Medical Center. He was born August 24, 1961 in Tupelo, the son of Quinton Boyd and Dorothy Russell Davis. He was self employed, working for Boyd and Boyd In and Odd Jobs for many years. Vernon was a true outdoors man and loved deer hunting and...
Mary Ann Gulley
December 13, 2020
Mary Ann Gulley Tupelo- Mary Ann Gulley, 79, of Tupelo, passed away on December 13, 2020, at North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. Mary Ann was born in Tupelo on January 6, 1941, to Doctor and Mrs. Aubrey Russell Harris. She attended Tupelo High School and graduated in 1958. Mary Ann remained close to her high school classmates...
Geraldine Johnson
December 13, 2020
Jackson, Tennessee, formerly of Tupelo- Geraldine Johnson, 81, died Sunday, December 13, 2020 at Northbrook Nursing Home in Jackson. She was born in Tupelo, December 6, 1939 to Vester and Betsy Davis and was a graduate of Tupelo High School. In 1958, she married Kenneth Johnson and they shared 46 years together until his death in 2004. She retired from...
Micah Dobbs
December 13, 2020
Blue Springs- Micah Dobbs, 27, died Sunday, December 13, 2020 at North Mississippi Medical Center after brief illness. He was born in New Albany, April 10, 1993 to Johnny Ray Dobbs and Kimberly Rose Hamblin. Self employed for most of his working life, he had mastered many trades. He enjoyed being outdoors, especially hunting wildlife and arrowheads. Micah had a...
Bert Hershfelt
December 13, 2020
Bertha “Bert” Lorraine Hershfelt, 92, died Sunday, December 13, 2020 at her residence. She was born in Erie, Pennsylvania December 2, 1928 to Herman and Laura Nelly Rakestraw Maas and grew up in St. Louis. After relocating to Tupelo in the late 1960s, she served on the Board of Directors for Sanctuary Hospice House during its inception and later worked...
James “Boy” A. Drake, Jr.
December 13, 2020
James “Boy” A. Drake, Jr. James Allen Drake, Jr., known as “Boy” to his late wife Ann and “Uncle Boy” to his many nieces and nephews, passed away at Parkridge Medical Center in Chattanooga December 13, 2020. He was born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida on May 17, 1935 to James Allen Drake, Sr. and Myrtle Drake. He married Ann Drake...
Michelle Crosslin
December 12, 2020
Michelle Marie Davis Crosslin, 49, died Saturday, December 12, 2020 at Baptist Memorial Hospital - Booneville. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on September 26, 1971 to Jimmy and Shirley Jackson Davis. She later relocated to North Mississippi where she settled in to raise her family and had been working as a sewing machine mechanic for the last six years...
Betty Hickman
December 11, 2020
Betty Jean Hickman, 93, died Friday, December 11, 2020 at Avonlea Assisted Living. She was born January 2, 1927 in Wynne, Arkansas to Frances Howard and Ollie Safley Stotts. Betty had a very vibrant personality and sense of humor. She also was very “old school and traditional” and never missed an opportunity to give you her opinion. She will definitely...
William "Snap" Lucius
December 10, 2020
William Frank “Snap” Lucius, 84, died Thursday, December 10, 2020 at his residence. He was born in Calhoun County, May 12, 1936 to Wesley Wade “Pete” and Myrtie Lee Therrell Lucius. On December 24, 1955, he married Martha Jean Long. Early in life, he served his country in the Army National Guard. He later retired from Coca-Cola in Tupelo after...
Becky Davis Wilson
December 10, 2020
Rebecca “Becky” Davis Wilson, 81, died Thursday, December 10, 2020 at the Meadows in Fulton. A native and life-long resident of Lee County, she was born March 15, 1939 to Osley and Odean Hardy Clark. Of all the things Becky experienced throughout her life, her fondest and most cherished memories were created when her children and grandchildren entered the world....
Kellie Gann
December 9, 2020
Tupelo- Kellie Gann, 45, died Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born in Tupelo, July 8, 1975 to Clarence Virginia McCombs and Pamela Gayle Shumpert-Estes. On March 2, 2013, she married Paul Gann. She enjoyed reading, drawing, writing poetry, watching true crime documentaries and spending time with her son, daughter and bonus son. Survivors include...
Ralph Banes
December 9, 2020
Ralph Edward Banes, 81, died Tuesday, December 9, 2020 at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. A native of Lee County, he was born March 10, 1939 to Wayne Banes, Sr. and Beatrice Banes and was a graduate of Mooreville High School. At the age of 18, he joined the United States Army and dedicated the next four years to...
Sue Kenney Carroll
December 8, 2020
Sue Kenney Carroll, 91, passed away Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at her residence at Traceway Retirement Community. A native of Union county, she was born August 2, 1929 to Willie Parmer and Cora Scott Parish. When she was an infant, her family relocated to Tupelo where she grew up attending Tupelo Schools and was a 1947 graduate of Tupelo High...
Faye Tartt
December 8, 2020
Illa Faye Tartt, 88 died Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at North Mississippi Medical Center. A native of Lee County, she was born to Rev. Price Edwards and Earline Ratliff Edwards. She was a graduate of Nettleton High School and attended Itawamba Junior College. For a number of years, she owned and operated Flowers by Illa. She later sold her flower...
Janice Stanley Anthony
December 8, 2020
Tupelo- Janice Alene Stanley Anthony, 69, died Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at North Mississippi Medical Center. A native of Tupelo, she was born July 8, 1951 to Lawrence Mitchell and Helen Alene Stanley and was a 1969 graduate of Tupelo High School. A natural born teacher Janice went on to receive her Bachelor’s degree in Education from Mississippi State University...
Phillip Brewer
December 7, 2020
Phillip Brewer, 59, died Monday, December 7, 2020 at Baptist Memorial Hospital- North Mississippi in Oxford. He was born in Aberdeen, September 16, 1961 to Willis Earl Brewer and Flora Aline Renfro. Phillip was raised in Amory by his loving mother and his dad, Johnny Reed Kyle and was a graduate of Amory High School. On April 7, 1990, he...
Bert R. Miller
December 7, 2020
Belden—Bert R. Miller, 85, passed away Monday, December 7, 2020 at the North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. He was born December 4, 1935 in Stone, Kentucky to Theo and Virginia Fannin Miller. Growing up in Lynch, Kentucky, he was the son of a coal miner. Bert proudly served his country in the United States Air Force. During...
Joe C. Vess
December 7, 2020
Joe C. Vess, 83, passed away Monday, December 7, 2020 at the North Mississippi Medical Center in Hamilton, Alabama. He was born October 7, 1937 in Mantachie, the son of Henry and Mary Williams Vess. Joe worked for 26 years as a member of the street department for the city of Baldwyn. He enjoyed tinkering on anything mechanical such as...
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