OBITUARIES
Mary Evelyn Vinson
Apr 14, 2017
Mary Evelyn Vinson Palmetto Community - Mary Evelyn Vinson, 73, passed away Friday, April 14, 2017, at Sanctuary Hospice House after a lengthy illness. She was born August 16, 1943, to George Marion and Beatrice Duke Curry. Mary graduated from Shannon High School and attended ICC. On June 24 1962, she married Carl Vinson in Palmetto Baptist Church. Most of...
Gary A. Poe
Apr 13, 2017
GARY A. POE Mooreville - Gary Allen Poe, 69, passed away Thursday, April 13, 2017, at his home. He was born July 30, 1947, to Leonard and Mary Lydia Buskirk Poe. He was a truck driver during his working life until his retirement. On January 20, 1984, Gary married Cynthia Poe. He enjoyed boating, horseback riding and four-wheeler riding with...
Simon "Slim" Wilson
Apr 12, 2017
SIMON “SLIM” WILSON Unity Community – Simon Riley Wilson, 70, passed away April 12, 2017 at his home. He was born on May 7, 1946 to John T. and Audrey Spradling Willson. He served his country in the United States Army as supply clerk during Vietnam War. On February 8, 1968, he married Sandra Wilson in Virginia. He was the...
Betty Ann Thomas
Apr 12, 2017
BETTY ANN THOMAS Tupelo - Betty Ann Thomas, 88, lifelong resident of Tupelo, passed away Wednesday, April 12, 2017, at Diversicare in Tupelo. She was born March 11, 1929, to Luther and Roxie Fleming Gamble. Betty was a waitresses until she retired at the age of 70. She started out waitressing in the Peabody in Memphis and worked the longest...
Gwen Sanders
Apr 11, 2017
GWEN SANDERS Tupelo - Gwendolyn Barber Sanders, 74, died at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo on Tuesday, April 11, 2017. Gwen was born in Michigan City, Indiana on December 6, 1942 to Jesse Guy and Glendora Ford Barber. She grew up in Greenwood, Mississippi and attended the Mississippi University for Women before getting married and raising her own family. Raising...
Doug Smith
Apr 9, 2017
DOUG SMITH Plantersville - Doug Smith, 74, died Sunday, April 9, 2017, at the North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. He was born July 14, 1942, in the Chesterville Community to Louis and Zadie McKissack Smith. During his childhood his family moved to East Tupelo where he attended Lawhon School. He later moved with his family to Zephyrhills,...
Billy G. Davis
Apr 7, 2017
BILLY G. DAVIS Auburn Community -- Billy G. Davis , 65, passed away on Friday April 07, 2017, at his residence in the auburn community . Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by W.E. Pegues Funeral Directors. Expressions of sympathy may be left at www.peguesfuneralhome.com .
C. Lamar Crocker, Jr.
Apr 5, 2017
LAMAR CROCKER, JR. Tupelo – Clarence Lamar Crocker, Jr., 66, passed away Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at North Mississippi Medical Center. He was born in Mobile, Alabama on August 31, 1950 to Clarence and Lena Manning Crocker. He was a graduate of the University of Mobile, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and the University of Alabama-Birmingham. He was a pastor...
Dorothy "Dot" Phillips
Apr 5, 2017
DOROTHY "DOT" PHILLIPS Tupelo - Dorothy South Phillips, 73, passed away Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at the North Mississippi Medical Center after a lengthy illness. She was born November 20, 1943 in Hughes, Arkansas to Noonan and Cayce Mae Doan South. She was an active member of Blue Springs Baptist Church. Once she was unable to attend, she continued to...
Charlotte Kay Burleson Roper
Apr 3, 2017
CHARLOTTE ROPER Tupelo – Charlotte Kay Burleson Roper, 54, longtime Tupelo resident, died Monday, April 3, 2017 at her residence after a extended illness. She was born August 13, 1962, in Phoenix, Arizona to Bobby Dale Burleson and Geneva Lou Gale Burleson. She had worked over 10 year with Cooper Tire and later became a technician with Lens Crafters where...
Kenny Wampner
Apr 3, 2017
Kenny Wampner Blue Springs- Kenneth E. Wampner, 68, died April 3, 2017 at the North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, surrounded by family. Kenny was born April 23, 1948 to Mahlon and Iona Baldwin Wampner in Beech Grove, Indiana. He joined the United States Air Force and served during the Vietnam War. He was a meteorological technician for the National...
Cheyrl Diane Brown Nichols
Apr 2, 2017
Cheryl Diane Brown Nichols Guntown - Cheryl Diane Brown Nichols, 67, of Guntown, Mississippi went to be with the Lord, Sunday, April 2, 2017, at the North Mississippi Medical Center Hospice Care Unit after a two year courageous battle with Multiple Myeloma Cancer. She was born June 5, 1949, to Charles and Bessie Brown of Tupelo, Mississippi. She was a...
Curtis Roberts
Apr 1, 2017
CURTIS ROBERTS Tupelo - Curtis Floyd Roberts, 69, went to be with the Lord, after a long battle with cancer, on Saturday, April 1, 2017 at the North Mississippi Medical Center. He was born on December 25, 1947, to Ottis and Arlene Hankins Roberts. Curtis was a graduate of Tupelo High School. He was a former employee of E. R....
David Frederick Chapman
Mar 31, 2017
David Frederick Chapman Plantersville, formerly of Gulfport - David went to be with the Lord on Friday, March 31, 2017, after a short but valiant fight against cancer. He was at home surrounded by his loving wife and children. David was born in Cook Co., Illinois, on June 10, 1942, to David Franklin Chapman and Joyce Eileen Taylor. Very soon...
Berma Ruth Shackelford
Mar 29, 2017
Berma Ruth Shackelford Tupelo - Berma Ruth Shackelford, 90, passed away Wednesday, March 29, 2017, at North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born October 1, 1926, to Aubrey and Berma Morgan Dillard and raised by her grandparents, Will and Nettie Leora Morgan. She graduated from Mooreville High School. She received a professional degree from East Mississippi Community College at Scooba...
Betty Jean McCullough Bush
Mar 29, 2017
Betty Jean McCullough Bush Plantersville - Betty Jean Bush, 86, passed away Wednesday, March 29, 2017, at home. She was born January 20, 1931, to Bilbo Bill and Clara Edna Kelly McCullough. She was raised in the Beech Springs Community. She married George Allen Bush December 31, 1959. Betty worked in many different professions, but she was most proud of...
Thomas Woodward Hutson, Jr., M.D.
Mar 29, 2017
THOMAS WOODWARD HUTSON, JR., M.D. Tupelo - Thomas Woodward Hutson, Jr., M.D., 93, died Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo. He was born July 21, 1923 in Miami, Florida to Dr. Thomas W. Hutson, Sr. and Ethel Barco Jackson Hutson. Dr. Hutson was the grandson of Miami's pioneer physician Dr. James M. Jackson, for whom the...
Robert C. Jensen
Mar 28, 2017
Tupelo -- Robert C. Jensen, 77, passed away Tuesday, March 28, 2017, at Golden Living Nursing Home in Ripley. Services will be on Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 3 p.m. at Gilvo Cemetery. Expressions of sympathy may by left at www.peguesfuneralhome.com .
Ricky D. Stanley
Mar 25, 2017
Mooreville -- Ricky D. Stanley,61, passed away Saturday,March 25, 2017, at North Mississippi Medical Center in West Point. Visitation will be on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 from 5 until 8 p.m. at W. E. Pegues, Tupelo.
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