OBITUARIES
John Leroy Long
April 12, 2025
John Leroy Long, age 88, died Saturday, April 12, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. He was born April 24, 1936, to Noble Leroy Long and Hazel Wheeler Long in the Barrett Ridge Community. A graduate of Saltillo High School, he was a standout athlete and a member of the school’s 1953 Baseball State Championship team. John Leroy...
Janice Garner
April 11, 2025
Janice Garner
Janice Marie Wages Garner of Blue Springs, at the age of 75, passed away on peacefully Friday, April 11, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center. Born on September 24, 1949, to Hoil Wages and Myrtle Elma Watson Wages, Janice lived a life full of strength, spirit, and love. In her young adult life, she proudly drove a Peterbilt truck...
Carol Ruth Horton
April 5, 2025
Carol Ruth Horton passed away Saturday, April 5, 2025 at the North Mississippi Medical Center after a lengthy illness. She was 75 years old. Born in Tupelo on August 11, 1949, she was the daughter of Benjamin Edward Summers and Mary Lou Gunter Summers. Carol was a graduate of Mooreville High School and earned her bachelor’s degree in education at...
Drake Wortman
April 4, 2025
Saltillo- Drake Robert Wortman, 61, passed away Friday, April 4, 2025, at his home in Saltillo. He was born October 2, 1963, in Chicago, Illinois, to Welton Lee Wortman and Barbara VandenBerg Wortman.
A lifelong adventurer at heart, it was the National Geographic that first drew him to the South. He spent ten years working at Toyota and previously owned a...
Liz Rice
April 4, 2025
Mary Elizabeth “Liz” Moss Rice, 101, passed away peacefully Friday, April 4, 2025, 15 years after moving to the Tupelo Traceway Retirement Community.
She was born to the late William Robert and Emma Lydia Moss January 15, 1924, and grew up on a farm just south of Franklin, Tennessee. Upon graduating from George Peabody College for Teachers in 1945 with a...
Linda Caldwell Dickson
March 29, 2025
Linda Caldwell Dickson
Guntown- Linda Frances Caldwell Dickson, born on August 26, 1947, in Tupelo to Charles Houston Caldwell and Pansy Ruff Caldwell, peacefully passed from this life on Saturday, March 29, 2025, at Baptist Memorial in New Albany. A dedicated educator, Linda devoted many years of her life as a beloved teacher in Lee County Schools, touching the hearts and...
Carol Page
March 27, 2025
Carol Page
Tishomingo - Carol Lee Page, 83, of Fulton, Mississippi, passed away peacefully surrounded by those who loved her on Thursday, March 27th, 2025, at the Meadows of Fulton. She was born in the winter of 1941 in Missouri to Wendell and Ruth Humphrey. In August of 1957, she married Billy Gene Page, and they shared 55 wonderful years together...
Pauline Raburn
March 27, 2025
Pauline Raburn
Mooreville- Holland Pauline Raburn, 85, of Fulton, passed away peacefully on March 27, 2025, at The Meadows in Fulton. Born on January 13, 1940, to Rogie Holland Grimes and Ruple Pauline Hood Grimes, she was deeply loved by all who knew her. A devoted servant of the Lord, Pauline’s love for Christ and for others shone through her every...
Mauvalene Harris
March 27, 2025
Mauvalene Harris
Plantersville- Nora Mauvalene Harris, 93, passed away on Thursday, March 27, 2025. She was born on February 17, 1932, in Itawamba County, Mississippi, to Dirl and Lillion Franks Wimbs. On April 4, 1948, she married the love of her life, Carl B. Harris, and they shared many wonderful years together until his passing on December 26, 2021. While in...
Hazel Dawn Huneycutt
March 26, 2025
Hazel Dawn Huneycutt
Knoxville- Hazel Dawn Murley Huneycutt, 95, passed away on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, at Morning Pointe in Knoxville. Born as one of twelve children to Robert Hamilton Murley and Nina Wallis Murley, Dawn embraced a life of warmth, service, and dedication to her family and community. As a longtime hairstylist, she was well loved by her clients, forming...
Billy Maples
March 26, 2025
Billy Maples
Plantersville- James William “Billy” Maples passed away on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. He was born on July 22, 1947, to William “Buddy” Riley Maples and Mae Bell Keeton Maples. He proudly served his country in the United States Navy. Billy dedicated his life to hard work and service. He was a longtime employee of Metalloid Foundry until its closure...
Charles McKnatt
March 23, 2025
Charles McKnatt
Charles McKnatt, born on August 6, 1937, in Tipton, Tennessee, passed away on Saturday, March 22, 2025, at the age of 86. Charles was a proud veteran who served in the United States Army and now rests in God's Army. Throughout his life, he was a dedicated family man, always putting the needs of his loved ones above his...
Teresa Smith
March 21, 2025
Tupelo--Our dear sweet mom, Nana and precious friend, Teresa Smith went to be with her Lord and Savior Friday, March 21, 2025. Teresa had a love and concern for all God’s creatures. She was the kindest, most considerate person you would ever meet. Teresa dearly loved her family and her home was a meeting place for every special occasion. A...
Cory Eastman
March 20, 2025
CORY EASTMAN
Pontotoc- Cory Gavin Eastman, 32, passed away Thursday, March 20, 2025. Born on April 4, 1992, in Tupelo, Cory was the beloved son of Jim Eastman and Tammy Sue Carnathan Jeffries.
Cory lived in Pontotoc with his wife, Leah. They were married in March of 2018 and shared 15 years of love and partnership. One of Cory’s last employers was...
Ola Rae Comer Boren
March 20, 2025
Tupelo--Ola Rae Comer Boren, 104, passed away peacefully at her home on March 20, 2025. She was born on February 7, 1921 to Rhoton Watts Moore and Alice Brown Moore of Fulton, Mississippi. She graduated from Itawamba Agricultural High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in education from Mississippi State University. On August 21, 1940 she married Joseph Graden Comer....
Steve Reynolds
March 20, 2025
Tupelo—Steven Jeffery Reynolds passed away Thursday, March 20, 2025, at the age of 66. He was born October 27, 1958, in Libertyville, Illinois to John Carl Reynolds and Joyce Joann Tackitt Reynolds. Steve returned to his Lee County roots in 1987 and worked primarily in the furniture industry as a frame builder. Before his health began to fail, he truly...
Bobby Edwards
March 17, 2025
Mooreville—Bobby Clyde Edwards passed away Monday March 17, 2025, at the North Mississippi Medical Center at the age of 88. He was born in Lee County on August 22, 1936, the son of Joseph Orville and Ollie Hunt Edwards. Not long after his high school graduation, Bobby began a 20-year career with the United States Navy, proudly serving his country...
Erma B. Newell
March 13, 2025
Erma Brooks Newell went to her heavenly home to be with her Lord and Savior on Thursday, March 13, 2025. Mrs. Newell was born on November 19, 1932, in Lee County, the first daughter after six sons, to Norman Leonard and Fannie Myrtle Dillard Brooks. She attended school at Endville and Algoma and graduated from Sherman High School where she...
Laura Mae Harris
March 12, 2025
Saltillo-- Laura Mae Harris, 85, passed away Wednesday, March 12, 2025, at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo following a brief illness. She was born May 26, 1939, in Lee County to John and Ruth Cole Mann.
Laura was a devoted member of Hebron Church. She enjoyed listening to gospel music, talking on the phone, and watching basketball. She worked in food...
Dr William “Bill” Spitler
March 11, 2025
Tupelo—Dr. William Oliver “Bill” Spitler, age 81, passed away Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at the North Mississippi Medical Center Hospice Unit. He was born in Mt. Vernon, Illinois on December 1, 1943, the son of Oliver Daniel Spitler and Edna Scott Spitler. Bill earned his bachelors degree in physical engineering, a masters degree in electrical engineering from the University of...
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