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Aubrey Harris

Aubrey Harris

Apr 21, 2018

Hebron - Aubrey Harris went to be with his Lord and Savior on April 20, 2018 at 88 years of age. A native of the Hebron Community, he was born on June 11, 1929 and was the only child of Manering P. and Ethel Young Harris. His family attended Hebron United Methodist Church where he remained an active member until...

Aubrey Harris

Aubrey Harris

Apr 20, 2018

Hebron - Aubrey Harris went to be with his Lord and Savior on April 20, 2018 at 88 years of age. A native of the Hebron Community, he was born on June 11, 1929 and was the only child of Manering P. and Ethel Young Harris. His family attended Hebron United Methodist Church where he remained an active member until...

Phyllis Baldwyn

Phyllis Baldwyn

Apr 20, 2018

Phyllis  Baldwyn Mooreville - Phyllis Sue Baldwyn, 60, died  Friday, April 20, 2018, at her residence. She was born June 9, 1957, to Billy and Bettie Sue Roberson Mills. She married Kenneth Baldwyn and spent her life as a homemaker. Flowers and cats were her life. Phyllis was raised a Christian. Survivors include one brother, Billy Mills, Jr. of Mooreville;...

Lottie F. Gillentine

Lottie F. Gillentine

Apr 16, 2018

Lottie F. Gillentine, 92, died Monday, April 16, 2018, at Sanctuary Hospice House. A Lee County native, she was born April 11, 1926, to Archie and Lucille Garner Carnathan. She attended Mooreville High School where she was a member of the basketball team. Lottie was married to Crafton Gillentine for 67 years until his death on May 4, 2010. She...

Fred Franks

Fred Franks

Apr 15, 2018

Saltillo – Fred Franks, 83, died Sunday, April 15, 2018 at his residence in Saltillo. A native of the Unity Community, he was the son of Henry Grady and Georgia Anna Horton Franks.  He was a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. From 1954 until 1957, he served in the United States Army as a helicopter pilot during the...

Marie Hutchinson

Marie Hutchinson

Apr 14, 2018

Marie S. Hutchison Tupelo formerly of Dayton, Ohio- Marie Smith Hutchinson, 95, died Saturday, April 14, 2018, at North Mississippi Medical Center, Hospice Unit. She was previously living at Generation Assistant Living in Saltillo. On September 2, 1922, she was born to Elmer and Clara Matschikowski Smith in Dayton Ohio. She worked at General Motors/Frigidaire for 30 years. She married...

Leila Phillips

Leila Phillips

Apr 14, 2018

Leila H. Phillips Mooreville- Leila Howard Phillips, 60, passed way, Saturday, April 14, 2018, at her home, surrounded by her close friends. She was born and raised in Ecru, Mississippi on August 13, 1957. Leila Phillips began her nursing career at North Mississippi Medical Center, Tupelo in 1982, after receiving her Associates Degree in Nursing at Itawamba Junior College. She...

Sheila Dickerson Oswalt

Sheila Dickerson Oswalt

Apr 11, 2018

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Jewel Harris

Jewel Harris

Apr 9, 2018

Jewel Harris, 83, died surrounded by her family Monday, April 9, 2018, at Sanctuary Hospice House after a lengthy illness. She was born in Lee County August 28, 1934, to Noah and Clara Frederick Edwards.  Early in life, she worked a number of years as a seamstress at Reed’s Department Store. On July 15, 1950, she married Melvin Harris and...

Donald Ray "Donnie" Nichols, Jr.

Donald Ray "Donnie" Nichols, Jr.

Apr 8, 2018

Kansas City, Missouri - Donald Ray "Donnie" Nichols, 63, died Sunday, April 8, 2018, at St. Luke's Mid America Heart Institute. He was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey April 30, 1954, to Donald Ray Nichols, Sr. and Dorothy Nichols. In 1959, he moved to Skyline with his family and went on to graduate from Mooreville High School in 1972....

James "Cliff" Parker

James "Cliff" Parker

Apr 8, 2018

Saltillo - James Clifton "Cliff" Parker, 97, died Sunday, April 8, 2018, at Sanctuary Hospice House after a lengthy illness. He was born in Mooreville November 9, 1920, to Dock and Mary Linda Clouse Parker. He had been a resident of Saltillo for the last 43 years. Earlier in his life, he worked as a ship welder at Ingalls Shipbuilding...

Hugh Allen Anderson

Hugh Allen Anderson

Apr 7, 2018

After fighting many battles with health problems, Hugh Allen Anderson passed away April 4, 2018. Hugh Allen was born in Tupelo on December 12, 1969 to Earl Andrew and Sarah Nell Anderson. He was a member of Verona Christian Church. He was 1988 graduate of Tupelo High School where he was a member of the band and the Decathlon Team...

Joann Robinson

Joann Robinson

Apr 5, 2018

Palmetto - Joann Robinson, 75, died Thursday, April 5, 2018, at her residence in the Palmetto Community after a lengthy illness. She was born in Pontotoc County May 28, 1942, to Walter Vernon and Julia Christeen Hicks Robinson but lived most of her life in the Palmetto Community. Early in life, she had worked in garment manufacturing but retired in...

Hugh Allen Anderson

Hugh Allen Anderson

Apr 4, 2018

After fighting many battles with health problems, Hugh Allen Anderson passed away April 4, 2018. Hugh Allen was born in Tupelo on December 12, 1969 to Earl Andrew and Sarah Nell Anderson. He was a member of Verona Christian Church. He was 1988 graduate of Tupelo High School where he was a member of the band and the Decathlon Team...

Carey L. Harrison

Carey L. Harrison

Apr 3, 2018

Mathiston - Carey L. Harrison, 69, passed away Tuesday, April 3, 2018, at the hospice unit of North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. She was born in Maben October 7, 1948, to Sam and Wilma Vaughn Yeatman.  She was a life-long resident of the Mathiston and the surrounding area and spent her life as a homemaker. She was of the...

Margaret Elaine Taylor

Margaret Elaine Taylor

Apr 3, 2018

Mooreville - Margaret Elaine Taylor, 85, passed away Tuesday, April 3, 2018, at Dogwood Plantation in Fulton. She was born in Baldwyn October 26, 1932, to Bonnie Roscoe and Kate Laney Snipes House. She finished High School at Cedar Hill. Early in life, she worked a number of years at Mid South Packers and later in life had worked as...

Richard D. Hunter

Richard D. Hunter

Mar 31, 2018

Richard D. Hunter Tupelo- Richard Dean Hunter, 81 passed at the Veterans Home in Oxford on Saturday, March 31, 2018. He was born in Newton, Kansas on June 24, 1936, to Lynford Clinton Hunter and Jessie Marie Southworth Hunter. Richard served his country in the United States Army and was a member of the American Legion Post 49 Tupelo and...

Regina L Monts

Regina L Monts

Mar 29, 2018

Regina L. Monts Tupelo- Regina Lou Monts, 58, died Thursday, March 29, 2018 at North Mississippi Medical Center after a suffering from Congestive Heart Failure for over a year. She was born, and raised in the Mississippi delta, to Harold Edward Hill and Carolyn Sue Faust Hill on November 4, 1959. Regina had a variety of careers including being a...

Dr. Ralph S. Baker

Dr. Ralph S. Baker

Mar 27, 2018

Tupelo- Dr. Ralph Stanley Baker passed away at his cottage at Traceway Retirement Community on Tuesday, March 27, 2018. He was born August 1, 1927, in LeRaysville, Pennsylvania, to Charles Vann and Clara Davis Baker. He graduated from LeRaysville High School, the University of Delaware and Purdue University where he received a PhD in plant physiology. His entire professional career...

Beverly Bradford Parr

Beverly Bradford Parr

Mar 27, 2018

Aberdeen - Beverly Bradford Parr, 73, passed away peacefully at the hospice unit of North Mississippi Medical Center, Tuesday, March 27, 2018. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri June 27, 1944, to James Bradford and Burtle Phelps Bradford. She graduated from Red Bud High School. Survivors include one brother, Robert Blake of Illinois; one son, Duane Sinningson of Missouri;...

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