OBITUARIES
Charles Wood
December 5, 2019
Birmingham Ridge- Charles Dunbar Wood, 75, died of Alzheimer's Disease, Thursday, December 5, 2019 at Rosewood in Tupelo. A native and life-long resident of the Birmingham Ridge Community, he was born January 17, 1944 to Charles Ralph and Oneita Wood and was a graduate of Saltillo High School. On May 28, 1965, he married Cheryl Bean Wood in Jasper, Alabama...
Mary O. Crawford
December 5, 2019
Mary O. Crawford Tupelo- Mary Oakley Crawford, 73, died Thursday December 5, 2019 at North Mississippi Medical Center. Mary was born April 30, 1946 to Kathleen Timmons Oakley in Alabama. Mary went to Delta State University where she graduated with her Bachelor’s Degree and met her husband, Frank. She retired from Tupelo Public School District spending most of her teaching...
Mildred H Coggins
December 3, 2019
Tupelo- Mildred Alice Coggins, 92, died Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born in Dumas, October 20, 1927 to Wade Hampton and Ophelia Carr Heath. On April 27, 1950, she married Jesse Ray Coggins. For 31 years, she worked as a contract specialist with the Natchez Trace Parkway Department of Interior. Mildred enjoyed traveling and...
Letha May Beaty
December 2, 2019
Guntown- Letha May Beaty, 85, died Monday, December 2, 2019 at her residence. She was born in Vina, Alabama October 10, 1934 to Charnell and Clistie Holland Blackburn. She worked for a number of years in quality control at Aurora Bearing in Chicago, Illinois. Letha enjoyed working outdoors doing yard work, gardening, mowing. She was a loving wife, mother and...
Wanda Green
December 2, 2019
Wanda Mae Green, 87, died Monday, December 2, 2019 at North Mississippi Medical Center after a lengthy illness. She was born in Walla Walla, Washington September 9, 1932 to Morrison and Frances McCauley Groom. When Wanda was young, her mother was re-married to Herb Wiest whose Military career moved their family around the United States. In January of 1952, Wanda...
Ann McCullough Nanney
December 1, 2019
Tupelo - Ann McCullough Nanney, 90, passed away Sunday, December 1, 2019, at her residence. She was born in Peppertown May 24, 1929, to Delbert Bart and Clyda Jane York McCullough. She was a 1947 graduate of Itawamba Agricultural High School and then attended Mississippi State College for Women in Columbus. In 1950, she married J. B. Nanney and they...
Peggy Mayfield Scott
December 1, 2019
Merritt Island, Florida formerly of Tupelo- Peggy Mayfield Scott, 82, died Sunday, December 1, 2019 at Rockledge Regional Medical Center after a lengthy illness. A native of Tupelo, she was born on May 6, 1937 to Johnny and Stella Roebuck Mayfield. She was a 1955 graduate of Tupelo High School and a 1959 graduate of Mississippi College. On June 3,...
Eloise Barnes
November 29, 2019
Tupelo- Eloise Barnes, 82, died Friday, November 29, 2019 at Diversicare of Tupelo after a lengthy illness. A native and life-long resident of Lee County, she was born December 19, 1936 to Ernest and Bessie Campbell McCostlin. She worked as a greeter at Walmart, sat with the elderly and for many years, worked at Shockley's. Eloise enjoyed spending time with...
Ruby Dillard
November 28, 2019
Ruby Estella Clark Dillard, 77, died Thursday, November 28, 2019 surrounded by family at her residence after a lengthy illness. A native of Lee County, she was born in the Skyline Community June 14, 1942 to Osley and Odean Hardy Clark and attended Mooreville schools. On February 4, 1961, she married John William Dillard and two years later relocated to...
Lyda Jean Shepard
November 28, 2019
Tupelo- Lydia Jean Bennett Shepard, 96, passed away peacefully in her home in Portsmouth, Virginia on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 2019, surrounded by the love of her family. She was born November 30, 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana to Kelly and Clare Duncan Bennett and was a graduate of Broadripple High School. She was married for 46 years to Howard Roy...
Jan Keith
November 27, 2019
Janice Lynn “Jan” Keith, 63, died Wednesday, November 27, 2019 at North Mississippi Medical Center surrounded by her family. A native of Lee County, she was born February 25, 1956 to Treman and Patsy Butler Keith and was later blessed with the greatest step-father anyone could ever ask for, Ernest Webb. Early in life, she worked as a bookkeeper and...
Rita Buckner Smith
November 27, 2019
Beloved wife and mother Rita Buckner Smith went home to her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Wednesday, November 28 at the age of 85. Born in 1934 to John Kenneth Buckner and Athlene Shepherd Buckner in Asheville, North Carolina, her youth was spent immersed in music, arts, horseback riding and of course, all things involving 1st Baptist Church of...
George Dewitt "Dee" Webb
November 26, 2019
Tupelo- George Dewitt "Dee" Webb, 77, died Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at his residence after a lengthy illness. A native of Tupelo, he was born October 10, 1942 to Wilson "Jack" and Emma Jewell Smith Webb and attended Lawhon School. He attended Blue Mountain College for one semester in 1973 before answering the call to Ministry. In 1965, he enlisted...
Paul Christian
November 25, 2019
Paul Howard Christian, 77, died unexpectedly Monday, November 25, 2019. A native and life-long resident of the Auburn Community, he was born November 12, 1942 to Cleburn and Dorothy Cason Christian. He retired from Rockwell/Delta after a long, fulfilling career. He enjoyed riding his motorcycle especially through the mountains with his friends and meeting friends for breakfast most every morning....
Lucille Pender
November 21, 2019
Nettleton- Lucille Pender, 93, passed away peacefully in the early morning hours of Thursday, November 21, 2019, at the Greenhouses at Traceway Retirement Community. She was born January 18, 1926, to the late C. B. Parker and Maggie Mae Helms Parker, in Lee County, Mississippi. She was a long-time member of Nettleton First Baptist Church. She married B. L. “Dank”...
Richard Harvey Anglin
November 20, 2019
Priceville- Richard Harvey Anglin passed away on November 16, 2019 in Ridgeland. He was born on June 17,1922 at home in the Birmingham Ridge community near Saltilloto Eric Troy Anglin and Rhoda Eliza Ann Cleveland Anglin. His family attended Birmingham Ridge Baptist church where at the age of twelve, he accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. After graduating...
Keith Robinson
November 18, 2019
Saltillo- Thomas Keith Robinson, 62, of Saltillo, Mississippi, left this world on Monday, November 18, 2019, while surrounded by his beloved family, in Tupelo, Mississippi. Keith was born on September 8, 1957 in Opelika, Alabama and attended Butler High School, Calhoun Community College, Athens University and Alabama A&M University. He was preceded in death by his Father, Curtis Robinson and...
Wilma Hankins White
November 18, 2019
Wilma Hankins White of Tupelo, Mississippi passed away at her current residence in Antioch, Tennessee on Monday, November 18, 2019, after a short illness. She was 91 years old. She was born on August 11, 1928, to Elzie Dell Hankins and Edna Phillips Hankins in Mantachie, MS. They later moved to East Tupelo where she attended the same school from...
Richard Harvey Anglin
November 16, 2019
Priceville- Richard Harvey Anglin passed away on November 16, 2019 in Ridgeland. He was born on June 17,1922 at home in the Birmingham Ridge community near Saltilloto Eric Troy Anglin and Rhoda Eliza Ann Cleveland Anglin. His family attended Birmingham Ridge Baptist church where at the age of twelve, he accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. After graduating...
Mickey Lucas
November 16, 2019
Mickey Jean Lucas, 60, died unexpectedly Saturday, November 16, 2019 at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. She was born in Dallas, Texas July 28, 1959 to William Linal and Doris Jean Presley Willis. She was a 1977 graduate of Mooreville High School and attended Itawamba Community College. On November 13, 1982 she married Tim Lucas. She retired from Action-Lane...
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