OBITUARIES
Margaret Gray Chism
March 22, 2018
Margaret Gray Chism, 97, passed away Thursday, March 22, 2018, at Diversicare in Brookhaven. A native of Lee County, she was born September 12, 1920, to Jimmy Carroll and Nancy Barkley Gray. On October 17, 1945, Margaret and her husband opened Johnnie's Drive-In in Tupelo, and together they ran it for 32 years. She was a long-time member of East...
Troy Raines
March 20, 2018
Troy Dell Raines Tupelo- Troy Dell Raines, 83, passed away Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at his home. He was born February 13, 1935, to Troy Claude Raines and Teenie Myrtle Taylor Raines in Saltillo. In 1956, Troy married Betty Jean Raines and together they have two children. After 40 years, Troy retired from the Building Supply Business. He was a...
Jackie Spearman
March 20, 2018
Jackie D. Spearman Birmingham formerly of Tupelo- Jackie D. Spearman, 69, died Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at Brookwood Baptist Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. Jackie was born December 10, 1948 in Tupelo to Cecil and Jewell Spearman. In 1968 at Bethel Baptist Church in Dorsey, Jackie married the love of his life the former Gail Wilburn, together they have two children....
Ruth Dees Tigrett
March 18, 2018
Ruth Dees Tigrett, 96, passed away Sunday, March 18, 2018, at her residence. A native of Tippah County, she was born March 31, 1921, to Mark and Mary Lou Dees. She was married to Hugh Tigrett, Sr. until his passing in 1989 and together they had two children. In 1956, she and her family moved to Tupelo. Ruth had been...
William Vance Cullum
March 16, 2018
William Vance Cullum, 89, left his earthly home on Friday, March 16, 2018, at his residence. He was born in Lee County May 8, 1928, to Frank and Minnie Cullum and was their last surviving child. He was a former employee of Mid-South Packers and had worked for a number of years at Penn Tire until they closed. Before his...
James Ed Mattox
March 15, 2018
Belden - James Ed Mattox, 95, passed away Thursday, March 15, 2018, at his residence. He was born in Tupelo March 10, 1923, to Carey Cavenaugh Mattox and Annie Sparks. James grew up in Lee County and was a 1940 graduate of Tupelo High School. Early in life, he was involved in fertilizer sales in the family business and helping...
Randy Edward Davenport
March 14, 2018
Randy Edward Davenport, 62, passed away Wednesday, March 14, 2018, at North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. He was born July 15, 1955, to Newell Edward Davenport and Mildred Van Buskirk. Randy was a 1973 graduate of Tupelo High School and a lifelong resident of Lee County. Early in life, he was an air traffic controller at Columbus...
Patti Hudson
March 13, 2018
Tupelo - Patti Hudson, 81, passed away Tuesday, March 13, 2018, at North Mississippi Medical Center after an extended illness. She was born in Pontotoc County January 24, 1937, to Hubert and Modine Franklin Branham. She grew up in Smithville and graduated from Smithville High School before attending Itawamba Junior College in Fulton. Early in life, she worked as a...
Nellie R. Houston
March 12, 2018
Nellie Rue Houston, 88, went to be with the Lord on Monday, March 12, 2018, at Countrywood Manor in Mantachie with her family and friends by her side. She was born July 1, 1929 in Itawamba County to the late Willie and Mildred Bennett. In her early school years, she attended Houston Community School where she played basketball. She later...
Anna Shirley McFadden
March 9, 2018
Mooreville - Anna Shirley "Dean" McFadden, 75, passed away Friday, March 9, 2018, at the hospice unit of North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born in Magnolia, Illinois June 27, 1942, to Clarence Norman and Ruby A. Brake Lewis. Anna was raised in Paragould, Arkansas but had resided in Lee County all of her adult life. She was married to...
Norma Grace Mack
March 6, 2018
Norma Grace Mack Tupelo- Norma Grace McCarley Mack, 73, was called home to be with her Lord on Tuesday, March 6, 2018 after a brief illness. She was born in Marion County, Alabama April 19, 1944 to Argie and Shelby McCarley. In 1952, she and her family moved to Defiance, Ohio. Norma was a 1962 graduate of Defiance High School...
Thomas Patterson
March 6, 2018
Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced at a later date by W. E. Pegues Funeral Home.
Carey L. Harrison
March 3, 2018
Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced at a later date by W. E. Pegues Funeral Home.
Grace King Sisk
March 3, 2018
Grace King Sisk Old Union Community - Grace King Sisk, 92, went to her Heavenly home on Saturday, March 3, 2018, at Diversicare of Tupelo. She was born July 6, 1925, to Herman and Vannie Lee Ashcraft King and raised in Shannon. On September 2, 1950, Grace married Mitchell L. Sisk and together they had two children. She was a...
John Sudduth
March 2, 2018
John Sudduth Tupelo- John Andrew Sudduth, 88, died Friday, March 2, 2018 at the North Mississippi Medical Center. John was born October 2, 1929 in Pontotoc to Michael Carlton Sudduth and Flora Bell Weatherly Sudduth. He was the proud owner of Sudduth Transfer, Storage, Warehouse, Moving and Trucking Business. He is a member of First Baptist Church of Tupelo. In...
Jerome Brown
March 1, 2018
Jerome Brown Aberdeen- William Jerome Brown, 57, dies on March 1, 2018 at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. He was born September 28, 1960, in Mississippi to Robert Earl Brown, Sr. and Julia Geneva Brown. Services will be at a later date
Wanda Adams Johnson
February 28, 2018
Wanda Adams Johnson Olive Branch- Wanda Adams Johnson died Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at Baptist Memorial Hospital- East. She was born January 19, 1953 to Carl Adams and Reaple Johnson Adams. Wanda married David Johnson. There will be private family services at W. E. Pegues, Saltillo.
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