OBITUARIES
Joey Sloan
Oct 17, 2011
Obituary for Joey Sloan Pontocola-On October 17, 2011, the sun set for Joey Sloan, age 55, while he was at his home in the Pontocola Community. The sun rose for Joey on December 31, 1955. He was the son of Charles Leonard and Jewel Dean Whitmon Sloan. He worked as a truck driver, mechanic, and heavy equipment operator. He enjoyed...
Mable Smith
Oct 15, 2011
Obituary for Mable Smith Pensacola, Fla.--Mable Turman Smith, 91, resident of Pensacola, Fla., died Saturday, October 15, 201l. She was born in Tupelo on August 17, 1920. She graduated from Tupelo High School and received a B.S. degree for the University of Southern Mississippi. She moved to Pensacola in 1984, and became a member of First Presbyterian Church. She was...
Pauline
Oct 15, 2011
Obituary for Pauline "Polly" Edwards Plantersville Pauline Polly Edwards, 90, died Saturday, October 15, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. She was born December 11, 1920 in Arkansas to Albert and Nora Bishop. She was a charter member of Temple Grove Baptist Church in the Temple Grove Community. In her earlier years, she served as...
Pauline Edwards
Oct 15, 2011
Obituary for Pauline "Polly" Edwards Plantersville Pauline Polly Edwards, 90, died Saturday, October 15, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. She was born December 11, 1920 in Arkansas to Albert and Nora Bishop. She was a charter member of Temple Grove Baptist Church in the Temple Grove Community. In her earlier years, she served as...
Ouida Johnson
Oct 14, 2011
Obituary for Ouida Rae Johnson Verona - Ouida Rae Johnson, 86, died Friday, October 14, 2011, at her sons residence in Tupelo. She was born in Kemper County on May 6, 1925 to Lawrence E. and Mary Elizabeth Barker. She worked at Blue Mountain College as a Dorm Mother and was affectionately known as Mamaw. She was an active and...
John Pittman
Oct 12, 2011
Obituary for John Pittman Tupelo - John Pittman, 68, died Wednesday, October 12, 2011, at his residence after an extended illness. He was born in Tylertown on August 15, 1943, to Thomas J. and Donys R. Pittman. He earned a degree in Accounting from the Mississippi State University. He was a member of New Hope Baptist Church. He was a...
Raymond Montgomery
Oct 10, 2011
Obituary for Raymond Montgomery Saltillo - Raymond Witt Montgomery, 90, died Monday, October 10, 2011, at his residence. A native of Waldo, Ark., he was born September 29, 1921. He attended Chicago University and numerous other schools specializing in avionics engineering. He served in the US Air Force during World War II and worked over 30 years for the Civil...
Katherine Langley
Oct 9, 2011
Obituary for Katherine Langley Tupelo M. Katherine Freeman Langley, 82, died Sunday, October 9, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born December 27, 1928, to Simon Curtis and Mamie Ann Strawbridge Freeman. A resident of Tupelo, she was a member of Old Union Baptist Church in Shannon where her husband serves as pastor. She was a devoted...
Linda Sansone
Oct 6, 2011
Obituary for Linda K. Sansone Tupelo - Linda K. Sansone, 63, died Thursday, October 6, 2011, at her residence after an extended illness. A Booneville native, she was born April 10, 1948, to Clarence and Wylodean Griggs. She was a devoted member of Gilmore Chapel. Her passion was hosting beauty pageants and spending time with her family, friends and her...
Emma White
Oct 6, 2011
Obituary for Emma White Saltillo - Emma Lee White, 70, died Thursday, October 6, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A Lee County native and lifelong resident, she was born July 5, 1941, to Lee and Estelle Storms Harris. She was retired from Lanier Clothing where she worked as an inspector. For the past two...
Ray Aycock
Oct 6, 2011
Obituary for Ray Aycock TUPELO Arden Ray Aycock, Sr., 92, died October 6, 2011, at his home. He was born in the Salem community near Macon, Mississippi, on February 24, 1919, to Sara Alice Hunter Aycock and Arthur Lee Aycock. He was a charter family member of St. Luke United Methodist Church. He was lovingly known as Big Ray to...
Mittie Smith
Sep 30, 2011
Obituary for Mittie Smith Unity - Mittie Jane Lyons Smith, 86, died Friday, September 30, 2011, at The Baldwyn Nursing Facility of North Mississippi Medical Center. A Lee County native and longtime resident of the Unity Community, she was born November 27, 1924, to Louis and Rennie Clementine Lyons. She was employed 36 years with Hunter-Sadler Manufacturing. She was married...
Wanda Yagel
Sep 30, 2011
Obituary for Wanda Yagel Tupelo - Wanda J. Yagel, 87, died Friday, September 30, 2011, at The Sanctuary Hospice House after an extended illness. She was born October 19, 1923, in Smithville, Penn. to Charles and Mabel Burchnell Wise. A longtime resident of Silver Spring, MD, she moved to Tupelo to be with her daughter three years ago. She worked...
Wayne Piatt
Sep 28, 2011
Obituary for Wayne K. Piatt Saltillo - Wayne K.Piatt, Jr. 54, died Wednesday, September 28, 2011, at his residence in the Birmingham Ridge Community. He was born in Davenport, Iowa on September 29, 1956 to Wayne Kenneth and Bonita Kathryn Gardner Piatt. He was a graduate of Itawamba Community College with a degree in tool and die. He owned and...
Karol Voge
Sep 24, 2011
Obituary for Karol Jean Voge Natchez Trace Villas - Karol Jean Voge, 69, died Saturday, September 24, 2011, at her sisters home in Oxford after a sudden illness. She was born July 25, 1942, in Oxford, to Richard Edwin and Gene Alberstett Keye. A 1960 graduate of University High School in Oxford, she then went on to attend The University...
W Walls
Sep 21, 2011
Obituary for W. L. Walls Tupelo E. L. Walls, 74, died Wednesday, September 21, 2011, at Community Hospice at Darlington Oaks after an extended illness. A Pontotoc native, he was born December 14, 1936 to Bera and Annie Mae Simmons Walls. He served eight years with the 155th Unit of The National Guard. Heloved to spending time keeping his car...
James Blaylock
Sep 21, 2011
Obituary for James Blaylock Tupelo - James Olen Blaylock, 62, died Wednesday, September 21, 2011, at his residence after an extended illness. He was born October 12, 1948, to B. M. and Vernie D. Peoples Blaylock. He liked to play cards, dominoes, and shoot pool. He was a Baptist by faith. Services will be 11:00 a.m. Friday, September 23, 2011...
Lavell Whiren
Sep 21, 2011
Obituary for Lavell Whiren Tupelo - Lavell Palmer Whiren, 91, died Wednesday, September 21, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center. A Bigbee native, she was born August 3, 1920 to John Talbert and Mary Cordelia Lancaster Palmer. She is the sole survivor of seven siblings. Before moving to Tupelo in the early 80s she lived in Slovack, Arkansas, where...
Betty Marshall
Sep 20, 2011
Obituary for Betty Marshall Tupelo - Betty Jo Marshall, 85, died Tuesday, September 20, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. A Missouri native, she was born May 4, 1926 to Joe and Fern M. Hillme Johnson. In 1996, she moved from Idaho and made Columbus her home. She was a Nazarene by faith. Her passion...
Robert Spear
Sep 19, 2011
Obituary for Robert Spear Tupelo - Robert Earl Spear, 51, died Monday, September 19, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. He was born in Miami, Florida on October 10, 1959, to Bobby Hensley and Earline Smith Spear. A graduate of Tupelo High School, he then went on to attend Itawamba Jr. College and Mississippi State...
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