Priscilla Booth

Tupelo - Priscilla Prissy Robbins Booth, 67, died Tuesday, January 4, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. A Tupelo native, she was born April 20, 1943 to Daniel L. and Marie Sims Robbins. She earned her chemistry degree from the Mississippi State College for Women in 1963. Later that year, she married Foster Booth and celebrated their 47th wedding anniversary. In her earlier years, she worked at The Gizmo with her mother. In 1976, she and her husband co-founded the All-American Trophy and Engraving. She was a former member of the Jr. Womans Club and one of their proudest accomplishments was bringing the first dialysis machines to North Mississippi. She was a member of First Baptist Church and for many years was very active in the childrens ministry with the G. As and Vacation Bible School. She was a master seamstress who loved to sew. She was a certified Mississippi Master Gardner and just loved being outside with her flowers and plants. She was an avid Mississippi State Bulldog fan and held season tickets to basketball and football games since 1983. She traveled to such events as the Sweet Sixteen, Final Four, numerous bowl games, SEC Championship game and numerous College World Series games while enthusiastically supporting the Bulldogs with her family.

Services will be 2 p.m. Friday, January 7, 2011 at The Jefferson Street Chapel of W. E. Pegues with Dr. Gayle Alexander officiating. Burial will be in Auburn Cemetery.

Survivors include her husband, Foster Booth, Jr. of Tupelo; one daughter, Robin Booth Clark (Criag) of Bradenton, Florida; one son, Reed Booth of Atlanta, Georgia; one granddaughter, Hailey Marie Clark; one grandson, Logan Foster Clark.

She was preceded in death by her father, Dan Robbins; her mother, Marie Robbins Christian; her step-father, J. V. Buster Christian.

Memorials may be made to Palmer House and The Sanctuary Hospice House.

Visitation will be 4/8 p.m. Thursday, January 6, 2011 at the funeral home.