OBITUARIES
Marcia Kaye Morgan
September 15, 2018
Kaye Morgan Unity Community- Marcia Kaye Morgan, 58, died Saturday September 15, 2018 at the North Mississippi Medical Center after a two year illness. She was born on September 23, 1959 to Calvin Coolidge Harding. In January of 1999, she married George Weaver in Alabama. At several stores, Kaye was a produce and meat market manager. She and her husband...
Mary Russell Foster
September 14, 2018
Mary Russell Foster Mooreville- Mary Sue Foster, 73, died Friday, September 14, 2018 at the North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who loved people and was always smiling. Mary was born April 29, 1945 to Roy Russell and Fannie Lee Kelly Russell in Tupelo. She married Carl Ray Foster...
Wayne Haas
September 13, 2018
Tupelo - John Wayne Haas, 93, died Thursday, September 13, 2018, at his residence. A life-long resident of Tupelo, he was born February 27, 1925, to Rev. James Melvin and Gracie Reese Haas. Early in life, he served his country honorably in the United States Navy in the Pacific Theater during World War II. In 1947, he married Reba Armstrong...
Alice Cobb
September 11, 2018
Tupelo-Mary Alice Cobb, 90, died Tuesday, September 11, 2018, at her residence. She was born in Sherman, Mississippi, August 19, 1928, to Tom and Fronie Mae Jackson Rial. She graduated from Sherman High School and relocated to the Tupelo area after she got her first job as a telephone operator at South Central Bell where she worked for a number...
Roger Dale Clemons
September 10, 2018
Tupelo - Roger Dale Clemons, 72, died Monday, September 10, 2018, at his residence after a sudden illness. He was born in Oxford, March 18, 1946, to James Owen and Ruby Christine Sanders Clemons. He was a graduate of Coldwater High School and received an Associate Degree from Northwest Community College. Roger served in the Unites States Army during the...
William "Bill" Samaras
September 8, 2018
Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced at a later date by W.E. Pegues Funeral Directors.
Helen Niblett
September 7, 2018
Martha Helen Niblett, 80, died Friday, September 7, 2018 at Diversicare in Tupelo. She was born in Waukegan, Illinois May 3, 1938 to William and Myrtle Burks Mills and had been a long-time resident of Tupelo. She retired from Action Industries in Verona after working as a sewing machine operator for over 35 years. She had also worked part time...
Adrian Wesley "Pete" Bertling, Jr.
September 7, 2018
Adrian Wesley "Pete" Bertling, 69, passed away Friday, September 7, 2018, at North Mississippi Medical Center after a lengthy illness. He was born in Austin, Texas December 21, 1948, to Adrian Wesley and Altha Boatwright Bertling. He grew up in Pasadena, Texas where he served as a Mason and was active in the Shriners Organization. He had been a resident...
Wilson Bud Foote, Jr.
September 6, 2018
Wilson Bud Foote, Jr., 84, died September 2, 2018 at his residence surrounded by family after a lengthy illness. A native of Amory, he was born January 31, 1934 to Wilson and Margie Foote. On March 7, 1959, he married Shirley Dodson. Early in life, he proudly served his country in the United States Army stationed in Panama as a...
Wilson Bud Foote, Jr.
September 2, 2018
Wilson Bud Foote, Jr., 84, died September 2, 2018 at his residence surrounded by family after a lengthy illness. A native of Amory, he was born January 31, 1934 to Wilson and Margie Foote. On March 7, 1959, he married Shirley Dodson. Early in life, he proudly served his country in the United States Army stationed in Panama as a...
Dorothy Easterling Coker
September 2, 2018
Dorothy Easterling Coker Birmingham Ridge Community- Dorothy Dale Coker, 93, went to be with her heavenly father Sunday, September 2, 2018 at home. A lifelong Birmingham Ridge Community native, Dorothy was born March 31, 1925 to Guy Easterling and Maxine Hendrix Easterling. In 1946, she married her Sailor sweet heart, Alvis Lenzy Coker. She was a homemaker who raised three...
James “Jim” T. Donald
September 1, 2018
James “Jim” T. Donald Tupelo- James “Jim” T. Donald, nicknamed "Tick", "Jimmy T." and also lovingly called "Big Daddy" has been welcomed Saturday, September 1, 2018 into the loving arms of God. Jim, age 89, was a man of many gifts. Never meeting a stranger was the gift that made him an excellent sales person, and brought him success as...
Betty J. Reeves
August 29, 2018
Betty J. Reeves, 87, departed for the Pearly Gates on Tuesday, August 29, 2018. She was born in Loretto, Tennessee on October 21, 1930 to Ernest and Margaret Koelsch. She attended Sacred Heart School, graduated from Loretto High School and also attended Beauty School in Nashville. She married Bob Hemmen in 1953 and had two sons, Robert and Joseph. While...
Shirley Lumpkin Goodman
August 26, 2018
Shirley Lumpkin Goodman, 82, died Sunday, August 26, 2018 at the Hospice Unit of North Mississippi Medical Center. The daughter of Former Lt. Governor Samuel Edgerton Lumpkin and Shirley Steverson Lumpkin, she was born in Tupelo October 31, 1935. She attended St. Mary's Episcopal School in Memphis, Tennessee in the ninth grade and graduated from Tupelo High School in 1953....
Theodore "Ted" Gutches, Jr.
August 26, 2018
A memorial service will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday August 26, 2018 at Saltillo United Methodist Church.
Keith S. Vick
August 25, 2018
Keith S. Vick, 50, died Saturday, August 25, 2018 at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced at a later date by W.E. Pegues Funeral Directors.
Frances Green
August 22, 2018
Tupelo- Frances Evelyn Herndon Green, 83, died Wednesday, August 22, 2018 at Sanctuary Hospice House. A native of Amory, she was born June 2, 1935 to James Felix and Jannie Nathalie Nichols Herndon. She was a 1953 graduate of Amory High School. She was married to Robert Oklen Green for nearly 59 years until his death on February 28, 2012....
Billie Goysich
August 20, 2018
Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced at a later date by W. E. Pegues Funeral Directors.
Theodore "Ted" Gutches, Jr.
August 19, 2018
A memorial service will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday August 26, 2018 at Saltillo United Methodist Church.
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