OBITUARIES
Edward A. Ford
Oct 17, 2019
Edward A. Ford Tupelo - Edward A. Ford, 82, died Thursday October 17, 2019 at North Mississippi Medical Center after a short illness. He was born June 15, 1937 in Tremont to Elsie and Lucille Davis Ford. Ed served his country proudly and gallantly in Vietnam and retired a Master Sergeant after 22 years in the United States Marine Corp....
Lisa Dawn Kitchens
Oct 16, 2019
Lisa Dawn Kitchens, 58, died Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at her residence after an extended illness. She was born in California, June 17, 1961 to Joseph Ferdinand Scheidbach Jr. and Wanda Eunice Nail Stanker. Lisa was a loving mother and grandmother and enjoyed spending time with her family. She was of the Baptist faith. Survivors include her two sons, Travis...
Merrill Estes Johnston
Oct 16, 2019
Tupelo-Merrill Estes Johnston, 72, died Wednesday at his home after a brief battle with cancer. He was born May 11, 1947 in Birmingham, Alabama to Gilbert Egloff and Katherine Estes Johnston. He was a retired business owner. Merrill attended the University of Alabama where he met his wife of 51 years, Ellen Bond Johnston. Merrill enjoyed playing golf, traveling with...
Lola Whitehead
Oct 13, 2019
Lola Whitehead Saltillo- Lola Mae Whitehead, 89, died Sunday, October 13, 2019 at Diversicare. She was born April 25, 1930 in Tishomingo County to Alfred Prentiss Cleveland and Ruth Alice Funderburk Cleveland. She was a high school graduate who was a homemaker by trade. She enjoyed painting especially painting birds, sewing, vegetable gardening and canning. She is survived by her...
Donny Lee Faulkner
Oct 8, 2019
Tupelo- Donny Lee Faulkner, 36, died Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at North Mississippi Medical Center. He was born in Tupelo July 2, 1983 to Richard Allen and Sherry Ann Faulkner. He was a 2002 graduate of Mooreville High School. For a number of years, he worked at Collision Repair. Donny enjoyed grilling out for his friends and family, collecting guns,...
Jo Ann Horton
Oct 6, 2019
Pontocola Community formerly of Brewer- Jo Ann Horton, 86, died Sunday October 6, 2019 at Diversicare of Amory. She was born August 17, 1933 in Lee County to Bootsie and Mable Goodwin. She was married to Willard Horton for over 50 years until his passing on September 2, 2004. She was a member of Brewer United Methodist Church. Jo Ann...
Omar Gamez
Oct 6, 2019
Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by W. E. Pegues, Tupelo.
Cheryl Wages
Oct 4, 2019
Cheryl Wages Tupelo- After a long, hard battle with cancer, Cheryl Annette Wages, 62, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Friday, October 4, 2019 at the North Mississippi Medical Center Hospice Unit in Tupelo. She was born in Tupelo on April 9, 1957, to George Walter and Minnie Cook Wages. She graduated from Shannon High School in...
James William "Billy" Maynard
Oct 4, 2019
James William "Billy" Maynard, 82, died Friday, October 4, 2019 after an extended illness. A native and life-long resident of Lee County, he was born August 20, 1937 to Leonard C. and Susie Cooley Maynard. Early in life, he served in the United States Army for two years and the Mississippi National Guard for four years. Later in life, he...
Mary Green
Oct 3, 2019
Mary N. Green, 69, died Thursday, October 3, 2019 at the Meadows in Fulton after a brief illness. She was born in Red Bay, Alabama December 21, 1949 to O.C. and Mary Marie Prestige Williams and was raised in the Auburn Community. On April 18, 1969, she married Carlton Green. Early in life, she worked as a manager at Books-A-Million...
Pamela Byars
Oct 3, 2019
Pamela Anne Mabry Byars, 65, went to her Heavenly home, Thursday, October 3, 2019 at North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born in Greenville on July 8, 1954 to James Clyde and Mary Lavelle Morphis Mabry and had lived in Mobile, Alabama and Summerville, South Carolina. Early in life, she worked a number of years at Arvin Industries. She later...
Shirley Frazier
Oct 3, 2019
Mantachie-Shirley Yvonne Frazier, 73, passed away on Thursday October 3, 2019, at her residence in Mantachie. No formal services will be held. Expressions of sympathy may be left at www.peguesfuneralhome.com .
Dixie Haney-Ingram
Sep 29, 2019
Tupelo- Dixie Lee Haney-Ingram, 62, passed away Sunday, September 29, 2019 after a brief illness. She was born in Tracy, Minnesota July 2, 1957 to Allen Dale and Dorothy May Engler Haney. She was a 1975 graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dixie loved working in her garden and spending time with her dogs. Survivors include...
Patsy West
Sep 28, 2019
Patsy West Tupelo- Patricia Ann Lothorp West, 76, died Saturday, September 28, 2019 at The Nichols Center in Madison, Mississippi after a short illness. Patsy was born February 26, 1943 to Ernest Gilbert Lothorp and Irene Cook Lothorp in Tupelo. After graduating from Tupelo High School in 1961, Patsy earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Education at Mississippi University for Women...
Donna Krason
Sep 28, 2019
Donna Krason TUPELO—Donna Krason, 64, passed away Saturday, September 28, 2019, at North Mississippi Medical Center surrounded by friends and family following an extended illness. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on January 5, 1955, to Alfred Eichler, Sr., and Lucille Eichler. She graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Jefferson Borough, Pennsylvania, and went on to earn an associates...
Mary E. Griffin
Sep 28, 2019
Mary E. Griffin Plantersville- Mary Elizabeth Griffin, 72, longtime and faithful member of First Baptist Church in Plantersville, died Saturday, September 28, 2019 at North Mississippi Medical Center Hospice Unit in Tupelo, surrounded by her family. She was born November 8, 1946 in Houston, Mississippi to George Worth Huffman and Willie Mae Harmon Huffman. Mary attended Houston High School and...
David Thomason
Sep 22, 2019
Charles David Thomason, 82, died Sunday, September 22, 2019 at the Hospice Unit of North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. A native of Union County, he was born in Myrtle January 7, 1937 to O.M. and Audrey Bateman Thomason and was raised in Blue Springs. He was a 1955 graduate of Sherman High School and went on to...
Dennis W. Livingston
Sep 22, 2019
Tupelo- Dennis Wayne Livingston, 66, died Sunday, September 22, 2019 at Sanctuary Hospice House after an extended illness. A native of Tupelo, he was born July 12, 1953 to Harold and Lazette Livingston. He was a 1971 graduate of Tupelo High School and went on to receive his Bachelors degree in Accounting from Mississippi State University in 1975. After college,...
Jay Ingram
Sep 20, 2019
Mr. Jay Ogden Ingram, 93, passed away on Friday, September 20, 2019. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 3, 1926 to Wallace Davis Ingram and Frieda Elizabeth Kleopfer Ingram. Jay attended Hughes High School in Cincinnati. He enlisted in the United States Marines during World War II. He served in the U. S. Second Division Marines where he...
Judy Perrigo Dunehew
Sep 19, 2019
Judy Perrigo Dunehew, 67, passed away Thursday, September 19, 2019 at her home in Tupelo after a long, hard, courageous fight against ovarian cancer. Judy was born the youngest of five children October 3, 1951 to William “Bill” and Evelyn Perrigo in Memphis, Tennessee. Judy graduated from Overton High School in Memphis with the class of 1969. She then attended...
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