1918
Fletcher
2006
Fletcher Richey
April 18, 1918 — January 4, 2006
LEE RICHEY
TUPELOFletcher Lee Richey, 87, died Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at Daniel Health Care, Inc. after a brief illness. He was born April 18, 1918 to the late James Fletcher and Bessie Lee Hendrix Richey in the Birmingham Ridge community of Lee County. One of ten children, he grew up in Tupelo area where he was a life long resident. As a youngster he worked on the family farm and in his early career he was a welder for Mobile Shipyards, M&W, then began his own welding business and eventually developed Lee Richey Steel Erection Company.
He was A veteran of WWII where he served aboard the Navy ship LST 825 in the South Pacific. He had been an active and faithful member of First Baptist Church for over 50 years, where he served as a deacon. He was also a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Jefferson Street Chapel of W.E. Pegues with his son, Rev. Terry Richey, and Rev. David Jenson officiating. His son, Donny Richey, will deliver the eulogy. Burial with military honors will be at Tupelo Memorial Park.
Survivors include his wife of 65 years, Annie Pearl Richey; two sons, Donny Lee Richey and wife, Kathy, of Fairhope, AL, Terry Moore Richey and wife, Pat of Mobile, AL; three sisters, Zana Schlosser of Pensacola, FL, Rebecca Ferguson of Louisa, KY, and Margie Potts and husband, Guy, of Knoxville; one brother, Mike Richey of Tupelo; seven grandchildren, Missy Petty and husband, Kevin, of Boulder, CO, Virginia Richey and Katherine Richey Collier and husband Garret both of St. Louis, Laura Allyson Richey and Abby Elizabeth Richey, both of Mobile, Jacob Richey and Carson Richey, both of Fairhope, AL; one great-grandchild, Leila Corine Petty of Boulder, CO.
Pallbearers will be Dean Merritt, Ben Simons, Evans Whittle, Morris Jarvis, Wayne Turner, and Billy Hawkins.
Honorary Pallbearers will be the Friendship Sunday School Class of First Baptist Church, Tupelo.
He was preceded in death by his daughter-in-law, Carol Coley Richey; two grandchildren, Robin Carol Richey and Mary Parish Richey; two brothers, James Richey and Sidney Richey; and three sisters, Mary Bess Hill, Minnie Will Goodson, and Virginia Rice.
Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, 300 N. Church Street, Tupelo, MS 38804.
Visitation will be Friday, from 5 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home
TUPELOFletcher Lee Richey, 87, died Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at Daniel Health Care, Inc. after a brief illness. He was born April 18, 1918 to the late James Fletcher and Bessie Lee Hendrix Richey in the Birmingham Ridge community of Lee County. One of ten children, he grew up in Tupelo area where he was a life long resident. As a youngster he worked on the family farm and in his early career he was a welder for Mobile Shipyards, M&W, then began his own welding business and eventually developed Lee Richey Steel Erection Company.
He was A veteran of WWII where he served aboard the Navy ship LST 825 in the South Pacific. He had been an active and faithful member of First Baptist Church for over 50 years, where he served as a deacon. He was also a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason and Shriner.
Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Jefferson Street Chapel of W.E. Pegues with his son, Rev. Terry Richey, and Rev. David Jenson officiating. His son, Donny Richey, will deliver the eulogy. Burial with military honors will be at Tupelo Memorial Park.
Survivors include his wife of 65 years, Annie Pearl Richey; two sons, Donny Lee Richey and wife, Kathy, of Fairhope, AL, Terry Moore Richey and wife, Pat of Mobile, AL; three sisters, Zana Schlosser of Pensacola, FL, Rebecca Ferguson of Louisa, KY, and Margie Potts and husband, Guy, of Knoxville; one brother, Mike Richey of Tupelo; seven grandchildren, Missy Petty and husband, Kevin, of Boulder, CO, Virginia Richey and Katherine Richey Collier and husband Garret both of St. Louis, Laura Allyson Richey and Abby Elizabeth Richey, both of Mobile, Jacob Richey and Carson Richey, both of Fairhope, AL; one great-grandchild, Leila Corine Petty of Boulder, CO.
Pallbearers will be Dean Merritt, Ben Simons, Evans Whittle, Morris Jarvis, Wayne Turner, and Billy Hawkins.
Honorary Pallbearers will be the Friendship Sunday School Class of First Baptist Church, Tupelo.
He was preceded in death by his daughter-in-law, Carol Coley Richey; two grandchildren, Robin Carol Richey and Mary Parish Richey; two brothers, James Richey and Sidney Richey; and three sisters, Mary Bess Hill, Minnie Will Goodson, and Virginia Rice.
Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, 300 N. Church Street, Tupelo, MS 38804.
Visitation will be Friday, from 5 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home
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