Archive - Mar 2011 - Obituary
March 25th
Leana Clark
Leana Clark, age 68, passed away Saturday, March 19, 2011, at Mercy Hospital Hospice in Chicago, Ill.
Funeral services are Saturday, March 26, 2011, at 3 p.m. from Johnson Creek M.B. Church, with the Rev. Bruce Guyton officiating. Burial will follow in Johnson Creek M.B. Church Cemetery.
Visitation is today, from 3 – 6 p.m. at Carter's Mortuary Services Chapel.
Carter's Mortuary Services in in charge of arrangements.
March 24th
Laura Rose Gilmore
Laura Rose Gilmore, age 94, passed away Friday, March 11, 2011, at Gottlieb Hospital in Melrose Park, Ill.
Funeral services are Saturday, March 26, 2011, at 11 a.m. from Greenwood M.B. Church, with the Rev. Joe Reel officiating. Buril will follow in the Greenwood M.B. Church Cemetery.
Visitation is Friday, March 25, 2011, from 3 – 6 p.m. at Carter's Mortuary Services Chapel.
Carter's Mortuary Services is in charge of arrangements.
Barry Joe Lyles
Barry Joe Lyles, age 51, passed away Wednesday, March 16, 2011, at Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle.
Funeral services are Thursday, March 24, 2011, at 1 p.m. from Upper Prairie Creek M.B. Church, with the Rev. Dorsey Gates officiating. Burial will follow in General Lyles Memorial Gardens.
Visitation is today, from 3 – 6 p.m. at Carter's Mortuary Services Chapel.
Carter's Mortuary Services is in charge of arrangements,
March 22nd
June Edwards Drummond
June Edwards Drummond went home to be with the Lord Sunday, March 20, 2011, while being hospitalized at Northeast Mississippi Medical Center after a long and valiant battle with heart disease.
She was born June 1, in Tupelo, and married her high school sweetheart and love of her life, William Drummond, for 30 years.
Doyle E. Brooks
Doyle E. Brooks Sr., age 72, passed away, Friday, March 18, 2011 North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, Miss..
March 21st
Neil Blansett
Neil Blansett, 73, passed away, Friday, March 18, 2011, at his home in Pheba. Neil Blansett was born May 16, 1937, in Clay County, to the late Sallie Liza Russell Blansett and Ollie M. Blansett. He was a Panel Welder for Babcock and Wilcox Company for 30 years and a member of Hebron Baptist Church. Omar Neil Blansett married Barbara Watson June 12, 1959, at Pheba.
March 15th
Joseph Joshua Stevens Jr.
Joseph Joshua Stevens Jr., age 71, died on March 14, 2011, after a brave battle with cancer. Joshua Stevens Jr. was born March 13, 1940, in Mobile, Ala., to Joseph J. Stevens and Anna Mae “Bootsie” Smith Stevens.
Rena Cunningham
Rena Cunningham, age 80, passed away, Saturday, March 12, 2011, at the Dugan Memorial Home, in West Point.
Rena Guest Cunningham was born Dec. 1, 1930, in Greenwood, Miss., to the late Polly Ann Mims Guest and Howard Erskins Guest. Mrs. Cunningham was a seamstress at Knickerbocker and later Big Yank for 30 years. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. Rena Mae Guest Cunningham was married Erle C. Cunningham, who predeceased her Nov. 8, 1974.
James Richard "Ricky" Smith
March 14th
Lula Mae Bell
Lula Mae Bell, age 71, passed away Wednesday, March 9, 2011, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, Miss.
Funeral services are Tuesday, March 15, 2011, at 1 p.m. from Strong Hill M.B. Church, with the Rev. Israel Lee officiating. Burial will follow in Strong Hill M.B. Church Cemetery.
Visitation is Monday, March 14, 2011, from 3 – 6 p.m. at Carter's Mortuary Services Chapel.
Carter's Mortuary Services is in charge of arrangements.
