OBITUARIES
Kay Sheffield
October 23, 2024
Kay Sheffield
Tupelo- Janice Kay Jobe Sheffield, 74, passed away Wednesday, October 23, 2024, at North Mississippi Medical Center. Kay was born February 26, 1950, to Charles Edger Jobe and Willie Mae Edwards. She grew up in the Plantersville and Nettleton area. Kay and her family were members of Temple Grove Baptist Church, where she took a profession of faith in...
Helen Mears
October 23, 2024
Helen Mears
Helen Dean Henderson Mears, born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on October 18, 1932, passed away Wednesday evening Wednesday, October 23, 2024, while surrounded by her family. Helen grew up in Alabama, later moving to Saltillo with her family. She graduated from Saltillo High School and continued her education at Blue Mountain Christian University, where she pursued a degree in education....
Virginia Dickey
October 22, 2024
Virginia Dickey
Mooreville—Virginia Lavelle Dickey passed away Tuesday, October 22, 2024 at her home in Mooreville. She was 82 years old. Virginia was born February 24, 1942 in Arkansas, the daughter of Haskell and Beatrice Montgomery Hood. She was a graduate of Mooreville High School and a longtime member of Union Grove Church of God of Prophecy. She was the widow...
Rachel Neely Miller
October 22, 2024
Rachel Neely Miller, 66, passed away at her home in Liberty surrounded by her loved ones on October 22, 2024. Rachel was born on July 18, 1958, to J.T. and Helen Neely in Jackson. She graduated from Tupelo High School in 1977. Rachel went on to work at Lee County Justice Court and retired from Boggs and Associates in 2023....
Dina Jo Spencer
October 22, 2024
Dina Jo Spencer
Tupelo- Dina Jo Duncan Spencer, 88, died Tuesday, October 22, 2024, in Tupelo. She was born on August 11, 1936, and was the only daughter of Austin and Kitty Duncan. Dina Jo was a woman who revolved her life around faith and her beloved family. She is the widow of Billy W. Spencer; they were married June 2nd,...
Ian Boswell
October 21, 2024
Birmingham, Alabama, formerly of Tupelo- Ian Andrew Boswell, 42, passed away on Monday, October 21, 2024, at Maury Regional Medical Center in Columbia, Tennessee. Ian was born July 26, 1982, in Flowood, to Tim Boswell and his wife, Kathy Sewell Reece.
Ian grew up in Tupelo, where he graduated from Tupelo High School. He went on to earn his Bachelor’s in...
Sandra Nunnelee
October 20, 2024
Sandra Nunnelee
Sandra Lee Deuschle Nunnelee, 85, a loving wife and mother, was welcomed into heaven on Sunday evening, October 20, 2024, only three days after her beloved husband, Pat Thomas Nunnelee. After a courageous battle with Alzheimer’s, she died peacefully at home surrounded by her loving family. She was born on April 28, 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as the second...
Buddy Vance
October 20, 2024
James E. “Buddy” Vance
Buddy Vance died peacefully at home on Sunday, October 20, 2024. He was born October 11, 1954.
James Edmond Vance was born in West Point, Mississippi to Allie Laura Stevens Vance and James O’Neil Vance. He attended West Point High School where he excelled in athletics; especially baseball.
He was the starting pitcher on the West Point High 1972...
Frances Hope Owen
October 18, 2024
Frances “Hope” Hickman Owen, 87, passed away after a battle with extended illness on Friday, October 18, 2024, at the North Mississippi Medical Center. Frances graduated from Tupelo High School in 1956 and married the love of her life, the late Charles Sidney Owen, in 1958, sharing 48 years with him. Her professional career was spent working as a secretary...
Pat Nunnelee
October 17, 2024
Pat Nunnelee
Pat Thomas Nunnelee, 88, one of the kindest individuals to ever live, was welcomed into heaven on Thursday evening, October 17, 2024. After a brief illness, Pat died at home, surrounded by his loving family. Pat was born on May 19, 1936; he is the son of Clarence R. “Dink” Nunnelee and Mary Liza “Jane” Scruggs Nunnelee. Pat grew...
Kimberly Wilson
October 17, 2024
Guntown—Kimberly Michelle Wilson, 46, passed away Thursday, October 17, 2024. She was born in Tupelo on December 24, 1977, the daughter of Felix and Linda Prescott Westmoreland. For several years she worked at Muller Brass as a water processor. Kimberly loved the outdoors whether she was fishing or working in her yard tending her flowers. She was also quite talented...
Shirley Geno Lyons
October 16, 2024
Shirley Geno Lyons departed this life on October 16, 2024 at her little cottage by her son’s home surrounded by her family following a period of declining health due to dementia. She was born on November 21, 1935 in Booneville to the late J.C. and Esther Geno. She was always proud and held strong to her Booneville roots.
Shirley was life-long...
Margaret Kraff Mitchell
October 13, 2024
Margaret Kraff Mitchell
Margaret Kraff Mitchell, 90, passed away peacefully Sunday, October 13, 2024, at North Mississippi Medical Center Hospice surrounded by loved ones. Born December 22, 1933, in Trier, Germany, her childhood shaped by her early years of growing up during World War II. She married the love of her life Omri “O.T.” Mitchell in 1958, after completing his time...
Mike Ihle
October 12, 2024
Mike Ihle
Michael William Ihle, 71, died unexpected in his home Saturday, October 12, 2024. He was born September 3, 1953, in New York to Lenard William Ihle and Lela Delon Bacon. When Mike was still in elementary school, he and his family relocated to Tupelo, Mississippi. Following his Tupelo High School graduations, Mike had a long career in manufacturing. Working...
Charles R. Warren
October 1, 2024
Tupelo—Charles Robert Warren passed away peacefully on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 surrounded by the family who lovingly adored him. He was 76 years old. A Tupelo native and lifelong resident, he was born March 12, 1948, the son of Robert and Reba Parker Warren. After his graduation from Tupelo High School, Charles attended Itawamba Junior College and went straight to...
Lavenia Easterling Moore
September 30, 2024
Tupelo—Lavenia Easterling Moore, age 95, passed away Monday, September 30, 2024 at the Franks House of Traceway Retirement Community. A native of the Birmingham Ridge Community and lifelong Lee County resident, she was born April 12, 1929 to George and Clara Easterling. Lavenia attended Birmingham Ridge School and graduated from Cedar Hill High School as valedictorian of her senior class....
Lynn Lamb
September 29, 2024
Tupelo-- Mary Lynn Lamb, 91, passed away Sunday, September 29, 2024, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. She was born April 4, 1933, in Pelahatchie, to Samuel Oliver Massey and Hattie Mary Wiley Massey.
Lynn shared 60 wonderful years of marriage with her husband, Henry Lamb, before his passing in December 2018. Together, they made Tupelo their home, building a...
Patsy Chesteen
September 26, 2024
Houston-- Patsy Ruth Chesteen, 74, passed away peacefully Thursday, September 26, 2024, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Born November 29, 1950, in Trumann, Arkansas, Patsy was the beloved daughter of George Grimes and Elizabeth Fortner Grimes.
Patsy was a devoted wife and homemaker who took pride in caring for her family. Patsy loved thrift store shopping and yard sales,...
Carole Whitfield Baggett
September 20, 2024
Guntown--Carole Lee Whitfield Baggett, age 78, passed away Friday, September 20, 2024, at her home in Guntown-- She was born December 19, 1945, in Grenada, the daughter of JD and Marie Herndon Whitfield. Carole was a Tupelo High School graduate. It was there she met the love of her life, Bobby Baggett, and they enjoyed 60 wonderful years of marriage....
John Smith Wade Sr.
September 20, 2024
Guntown--John Smith Wade Sr., age 89, passed away peacefully on Saturday, September 20, 2024 at the North Mississippi Medical Center Hospice Unit, surrounded by his family. He was born August 12, 1935 in Guntown to Doc and Jewel Smith Wade. Many will remember John as the owner of Wade Heating and Air which he operated for several years. He was...
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