OBITUARIES
Leland (Lee) Duncan, Sr.
Sep 18, 2011
Obituary for Leland Miller (Lee) Duncan, Sr. Tupelo - Leland Miller (Lee) Duncan, Sr., 89, died Sunday, September 18, 2011, at The Sanctuary Hospice House after an extended illness. A native of Ingomar, he was born March 21, 1922 to Pittser Miller and Edith Mae Goodwin Duncan. He was raised in Ingomar and had been a Tupelo resident since 1950....
Linda Wilson Hester
Sep 18, 2011
Obituary for Linda Ann Wilson Hester Tupelo - Linda Ann Wilson Hester, 61, died Sunday, September 18, 2011, at her residence in Tupelo. Visitation will be 5 - 8 p.m. Monday, September 19, 2011 at Pegues Funeral Home Tupelo. Expressions of sympathy may be left at www.peguesfuneralhome.com
Fred Wiygul
Sep 15, 2011
Obituary for Fred Wiygul Skyline - Fred N. Wiygul, 90, died Thursday, September 15, 2011, at Tupelo Nursing and Rehabilitation Center after an extended illness. An Itawamba County native, he was born August 8, 1921, to Ephriam H. and May Shumpert Wiygul. In 1938, he graduated from Verona High School as Valedictorian and then attended Itawamba Junior College. During World...
Betty Peters
Sep 12, 2011
Obituary for Betty Peters Tupelo - Betty Sue Conlee Peters, 76, died Monday, September 12, 2011, at the Countrywood Plantation in Mantachie after an extended illness. A Plantersville native, she was born June 30, 1935 to Walter Monts and Mary Ruby Kelly Conlee. She was a 1953 grauate of Plantersville High School. She worked over 35 years for the Peoples...
James Pettigo
Sep 11, 2011
Obituary for James A. Pettigo Saltillo - James Andrew Pettigo, 81, died Sunday, September 11, 2011, at his residence near Saltillo after an eight month long illness. He was born January 2, 1930, in the Twenty Mile Bottom area of Itawamba County to Jack and Sallie Mae Roberts Pettigo. He lived most of his life in Lee County. He was...
Burless Oyler
Sep 11, 2011
Obituary for Burless J. Oyler Tupelo - Burless J. Oyler, 66, of Tupelo passed away Sept. 11, 2011. He was born on Feb. 24, 1945 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Joe M. Oyler and the late Imogene Cornutt Oyler. He graduated from S. D. Lee High School in Columbus, Miss., and graduated from Mississippi State University in 1973. He volunteered for...
Nadine Franks
Sep 10, 2011
Obituary for Nadine Franks Printable Version Recently Lit Memorial Candles W. E. Pegues Funeral Directors and Staff We are pleased to provide this Book of Memories to the family ... (read more)
Mary Hannah
Sep 10, 2011
Obituary for Mary H. Hannah Saltillo - Mary H. Hannah, 60, died Saturday, September 10, 2011, at Sanctuary Hospice House after a brief stay. She has now gone to join her heavenly father whom she loved so dearly. She was born May 4, 1951 in Marks to Joe Willie and Betty Smith Ransom. She was a devoted mother to her...
Judy Lewis
Sep 10, 2011
Obituary for Judy Lewis Tupelo - Judy Lynn Lewis, 59, died Saturday, September 10, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. A Tupelo native, she was born March 26, 1952 to James and Helon Hopper Lewis. She was the widow of Larry Aderholt. She was a fundraiser for many years with the Lee County Shriners and...
Carl Tallant
Sep 8, 2011
Obituary for Carl Mays Tallant Mr. Carl M. Tallant died Thursday, September 8, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center. Services will be 3 p.m. Saturday at the Jefferson Street Chapel of W.E. Pegues. Burial will be in Tupelo Memorial Park. Visitation will be 1 p.m. to service time Saturday.
Mary West
Sep 8, 2011
Obituary for Mary Alice West Tupelo - Mary Alice Feemster West, 76, died Thursday, September 8, 2011, at the North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born February 9, 1935 to John Houston and Ruth Newman Feemster. She grew up in Corinth but moved to Tupelo where she graduated from Tupelo High School in 1952. She then attended Itawamba Community College...
Idell Butler
Sep 5, 2011
Obituary for Idell Butler Tupelo - Mildred Idell Goodwin Butler, 86, died Monday, September 5, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born May 5, 1925 to Harley and Ruth Fulton Goodman. Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday, September 8, 2011 at The Jefferson Street Chapel of W. E. Pegues with Bro. David Hendrix and Bro. O.D. Hester...
Ernest Smith
Sep 5, 2011
Obituary for Ernest J. Smith Tupelo - Ernest J. Smith, 83, died Monday, September 5, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A Lee County native and lifelong resident, he was born February 21, 1928, to Clyde and Vera Robbins Smith. He was a 1948 graduate of Mooreville High School, earned his associates degree from Itawamba...
Betty Palmer
Sep 2, 2011
Obituary for Betty Quay Palmer Eggville - Betty Quay Palmer, 69, died Friday, September 2, 2011, at The Sanctuary Hospice House. She was born March 19, 1942 in Lee County to Clyde and Vera Robbins Smith. She was a 1961 graduate of Mooreville High School. She was a member of Eggville Free Will Baptist Church. Services will be 2 p.m....
Frances Joyner
Sep 1, 2011
Obituary for Frances Elkin Joyner Tupelo Frances Elkin Joyner, 101, died Thursday, September 1, 2011, at The Sanctuary Hospice House after a brief illness. She was born November 23, 1909, to Dr. Thomas Fitzgerald and Lottie Armstrong Elkin. A lifelong resident of Tupelo, she graduated from Tupelo High School and National Park Seminary, a girls finishing school in Forest Glen,...
Anna Mask
Aug 31, 2011
Obituary for Anna C. Mask CAROLINA - Anna Carrie Mask, 78, died Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2011, at The North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born in Pontotoc County on Feb. 4, 1933, to Benjamin and Vivian Carrie Archie Clayton. She was a longtime resident of the Carolina community. She was a lifelong and active member of Richmond Pentecostal Church. Her...
William
Aug 29, 2011
Obituary for William "Sonny" Fowler Shannon William Vester Sonny Fowler, 70, died Monday, August 29, 2011, at the Sanctuary Hospice House after an extended illness. A Nettleton native, he was born March 28, 1941 to Vester T. Jiggs and Laverne Young Fowler. He was a Baptist by faith. Most of his life he worked in the furniture industry. He loved...
William Fowler
Aug 29, 2011
Obituary for William "Sonny" Fowler Shannon William Vester Sonny Fowler, 70, died Monday, August 29, 2011, at the Sanctuary Hospice House after an extended illness. A Nettleton native, he was born March 28, 1941 to Vester T. Jiggs and Laverne Young Fowler. He was a Baptist by faith. Most of his life he worked in the furniture industry. He loved...
George W. Bell
Aug 27, 2011
GEORGE WINFIELD BELL Guntown - George W. Bell, 85, died Saturday, August 27, 2011, at Baldwyn Nursing Facility after a brief illness. He was born in Lee County on October 6, 1925 to Willie Milton and Zelma McCarley Bell. He was a United States Navy veteran of World War II where he served aboard the U.S.S. Raleigh. He was a...
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