Mooreville - Nagle Russell Ethridge Sr, 62, died, Saturday, June 28,2008 at The North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. A Little Rock, Arkansas native, he was born December 17, 1945 to Horace Frank and Ruby Watson Ethridge. He married his wife of 45 years, Mable Lee Patterson, on April 16, 1963. He worked 20 years at Penske and later he was self-employed as a truck driver. He was a Baptist.
Graveside Services will be Monday, 2 p.m., Union Cemetery at Belden with Rev. Ricky Ethridge and Rev. Joey Ethridge officiating. Burial will be in Union Cemetery. W. E. Pegues Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include his wife Mable Lee Ethridge of Mooreville; one son, Russell Ethridge, Jr., of Saltillo; one daughter, Tammy Lee Ethridge, of Tupelo; three brothers, Ruben Ethridge and his wife, Char, of Ecru, Jewell Ethridge and his wife, Carol, of Ecru, Vernon Ethridge and his wife, Frances, of Saltillo; one sister, Patricia Kennedy and her husband, Kemp, of Dumas.
He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Frank Ethridge, Jr.
Pallbearers will be his nephews.
Visitation will be Sunday, 1 p.m. until 9 p.m. at the Funeral Home.
Expressions of sympathy may be left at
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