Carolyn Frazier

Birmingham Ridge - Carolyn Frazier, 73, died Wednesday, July 2, 2008, at Home Place in Saltillo after a lengthy illness. She was born June 11, 1935 to Leonard and Lorine Cummings Hill in Itawamba County. She was a long time resident of Birmingham Ridge. She retired after 25 years as a school teacher with the public school system with twenty of those years at Saltillo High School as the 12th grade English teacher. A very active member of First Baptist Church where she taught Sunday School for 30 years, she enjoyed her church, flowers, herbs, traveling, and her family time.

Services will be 2:30 p.m. Saturday, July 5, 2008 at The Jefferson Street Chapel of W. E. Pegues with Dr. Randy Von Kanel and Dr. Gayle Alexander officiating. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery. W. E. Pegues Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.

Survivors include her husband of 51 years, Lewis Frazier, of Birmingham Ridge; one daughter, Julia Houston and her husband, Randy, of Blue Springs; two sons, Lewie Frazier of Tupelo and Luke Frazier of Birmingham Ridge; three sisters, Joyce Young and her husband, Willard, of Tuscumbia, Alabama, Eileen Dorrough and her husband, Gerald, of Tupelo and Kitty Brewer of Tupelo; two brothers, Maurice Hill and his wife, Mary, of Tupelo, Frank Hill and his wife, Zoe, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri; two grandsons, Nichols Floyd and Blake Houston.

She was preceded in death by her parents and one sister, Louise.

Pallbearers will be Dr John Bowlin, Jack Chancey, Merle Claunch, Joe Gary, Dr. Jerry Moore and Boyce Shelton; Honorary pallbearers will be Hoyle Phillips Jr, Johnny Green, Elton Putnam, Elton Williams, Lowery Tackett, Dr. Richard Nance, Corbett Brandon and Don West.

Visitation will be 12:30 p.m. until service time Saturday, July 5, 2008 at the funeral home.

Expressions of sympathy may be left at www.peguesfuneralhome.com