OBITUARIES
Joyce Jones
Aug 8, 2009
Tupelo - Joyce Jones, 62, went to be with the Lord, Saturday, August 8, 2009, at the North Mississippi Medical Center after a sudden illness. A Tupelo native, she was born August 17, 1946 to Clovis and Christine Brooks Jones. She was a member of Wesley United Methodist Church and she very much enjoyed listening to gospel music. Services will...
Carlos Pettigrew
Aug 7, 2009
Cayson - Carlos Pettigrew, 94, died Friday, August 7, 2009, at his residence in the Cayson Community. A native and life-long resident of Tupelo, he was born July 3, 1915, to John and Bessie Smith Pettigrew. On April 26, 1936, he married Velera Mae Sis Roebuck and they recently celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary. He was a United States Army...
Laura Rhudy McCaskill
Aug 1, 2009
Tupelo - Laura Rhudy McCaskill, 96, died Saturday, August 1, 2009, at Cedars Heathcare Center after an extended illness. She was born in the Brewer Community to Jim H and Mary Lee Porter Rhudy. She worked at Reeds Manufacturing. She had lived at Cedars Health Center since February 2006. She was a member of Center Hill Baptist Church in Plantersville...
Beth Graham
Aug 1, 2009
Black Zion " Mary Elizabeth Chisholm Graham, 55, of the Black Zion Community, died Saturday, August 1, 2009 at her home after a lengthy illness. Beth was born May 23, 1954 in Tupelo. She attended Tupelo High School and Northeast Mississippi Junior College. She worked at Tupelo Foam for over 17 years and had worked with her husband at Shannon...
Laura McCaskill
Aug 1, 2009
Tupelo - Laura Rhudy McCaskill, 96, died Saturday, August 1, 2009, at Cedars Heathcare Center after an extended illness. She was born in the Brewer Community to Jim H and Mary Lee Porter Rhudy. She worked at Reeds Manufacturing. She had lived at Cedars Health Center since February 2006. She was a member of Center Hill Baptist Church in Plantersville...
Beth Chisholm Graham
Aug 1, 2009
Black Zion " Mary Elizabeth Chisholm Graham, 55, of the Black Zion Community, died Saturday, August 1, 2009 at her home after a lengthy illness. Beth was born May 23, 1954 in Tupelo. She attended Tupelo High School and Northeast Mississippi Junior College. She worked at Tupelo Foam for over 17 years and had worked with her husband at Shannon...
Jean Pettis
Jul 30, 2009
Tupelo - Jean Pettis, 72, died Thursday, July 30, 2009, at her residence after a sudden illness. She was born September 11, 1936 in Memphis, Tennessee to Lester George and Beulah Louise Meadows Greene. She graduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in social work. She married Dr. James Leighton Pettis, Jr. on January 28, 1956 and for...
Mary Betts
Jul 29, 2009
CHRISTINE LANSDELL BETTS SALTILLO- Christine Lansdell Betts, 66, died peacefully Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at the North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. A native of Lee County, she was born November 2, 1942 to the late M.H. and Clara Mae Williams Lansdell. She was a graduate of Tupelo High School, and attended Itawamba Community College, LPN school. She...
Michael W. Mansell
Jul 27, 2009
Texas " Michael W. Mansell, passed away, Monday, July 27, 2009, in Fort Worth, Texas at 57 years of age. He was a native of Tupelo, Mississippi and graduated from Shannon High School. He attended South West Baptist College in Boliver, MO as well as Missouri State. He was married to the former Susan Taylor of Saint Clair, Missouri for...
Trula Phillips
Jul 27, 2009
Unity - Trula Fay Phillips, 81, died Monday, July 27, 2009, at The Meadows in Fulton after a brief Illness. A Lee County native , she was born November 27, 1927 to John and Etta Vena Hill Young. She attended Holmes Junior College on a basketball scholarship before earning her degree in education from Mississippi State University. She was a...
Michael Mansell
Jul 27, 2009
Texas " Michael W. Mansell, passed away, Monday, July 27, 2009, in Fort Worth, Texas at 57 years of age. He was a native of Tupelo, Mississippi and graduated from Shannon High School. He attended South West Baptist College in Boliver, MO as well as Missouri State. He was married to the former Susan Taylor of Saint Clair, Missouri for...
Daniel Clardy
Jul 25, 2009
GUNTOWN " Daniel Gene Clardy Sr., 50, died Saturday, July 25, 2009, at his home after a long illness. He was born May 20, 1959, in Waukegan, Ill., to Carroll Eugene and Lucile Harkness Clardy. He had lived in the Saltillo-Guntown area for about 11 years. He was an employee of The McCarty Company Construction Group Inc. of Tupelo. He...
Aileen Davis
Jul 24, 2009
AILEEN DAVIS Pontotoc - Aileen Crump Davis, 83, died Friday, July 24, 2009, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North MS after a short illness. She was born February 6, 1926 to Ira and Lillian Caldwell Crump. After graduating in 1941 from Sherman High School, she attended Draughns Business College in Memphis. After graduation, she married and moved to Camden, New Jersey where...
Aileen Crump Davis
Jul 24, 2009
AILEEN DAVIS Pontotoc - Aileen Crump Davis, 83, died Friday, July 24, 2009, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North MS after a short illness. She was born February 6, 1926 to Ira and Lillian Caldwell Crump. After graduating in 1941 from Sherman High School, she attended Draughns Business College in Memphis. After graduation, she married and moved to Camden, New Jersey where...
Nona Shumpert
Jul 23, 2009
Hiram, Ga.Nona Shumpert, 95, died Thursday, July 23, 2009 At Wellstar Paulding Nursing Center in Dallas, Georgia, after a short illness where she lived the past several years. She was born June 14, 1914 in Itawamba County to the late Will and Ada Loden Lindsey. She was married to Robert L. (Shorty) Shumpert August 10, 1946 who died in 1974....
Richard Morgan
Jul 22, 2009
RICK MORGAN Tupelo - Richard Dean "Rick" Morgan, 45, died Wednesday, July 22, 2009, at Community Hospice at Darlington Oaks after an extended illness. A Tupelo native, he was born December 1, 1963 to Audie and Barbara Wages Morgan. He was a graduate of Tupelo High School and then attended Itawamba Community College. He worked a number of years as...
Anneliese Davis
Jul 17, 2009
Tupelo - Anneliese Herz Davis, 80, died Friday, July 17, 2009, at her daughters residence after an extended illness. She was born August 21, 1928, in Wiesbaden, Germany to Karl and Maria Kling Herz. In 1949, she moved to Mississippi, settling in Natchez in 1960, where she raised her family and lived until her health began to decline. She then...
Lucille Tomlinson
Jul 15, 2009
Tupelo - Lucille Holley Tomlinson, 80, died Wednesday, July 15, 2009, at The North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A Tippah County native, she was born July 28, 1928 to Ezra and Rettie Skinner Holley. She was married for 52 years to Holmes Tomlinson who died March 31, 1998. She and her family lived in numerous states, settling...
Genie Moore
Jul 11, 2009
TUPELO - Genie Bean Moore, 81, died Saturday, July 11, 2009, at the Home Place in Saltillo after a lengthy illness. She was born to Wiley Holder Bean and Jennie Mae Loden Bean of Itawamba County on Feb. 20, 1928. She and her late husband lived in Tupelo since 1949. An executive secretary and office manager for Sears and Roebuck...
Russell Lanphere
Jul 11, 2009
TUPELO - Russell C. Lanphere, 88, died Saturday, July 11, 2009, at The Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo after a brief illness. He was born Dec. 7, 1920, to Paul Lanphere and Myrtle Dugard Lanphere in Tuscaloosa, Ala., but had lived most of his life in the Tupelo area. He was a retired employee of Mississippi Valley Gas Company, now...
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