Peggy Compton
Aug 18, 2024
Peggy Compton
Tupelo - Peggy Compton, 93, passed away on Sunday, August 18, 2024, at the North MS Medical Center. She was born June 25, 1931, in Jackson, TN to Floyd and Virgie Roberts. She was a longtime pharmacy tech working for Jackson Clinic in Jackson, TN and Medisav Drugs in Sardis. She was a Christian and...
Lee Earnest Brand Sr.
Aug 6, 2024
Lee Earnest Brand, Sr., 70, of Nettleton, MS, left this life on Monday, August 6, 2024. He was born June 26, 1954, to Curtis and Floraine Brand. His greatest joys were the Lord, his family, and the outdoors. Many days even near the end of his life, he would be on his walker, holding his bible, and headed to...
Carrie Etta Powell
Aug 6, 2024
Carrie Etta Powell, 86, passed away Tuesday, August 6, 2024 at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo. She was born August 20, 1937 to Clarence Storey and Mary Virginia Bullock in Dumas, MS. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Tupelo. She loved her flowers and gardening the most. She is survived by daughter, Pam Blassingame (Morgan) of...
Evon Reed
Jul 19, 2024
Evon C. Reed, 88, passed away on July 19, 2024 at Golden Age Nursing Home after a lengthy illness. She was born April 24, 1936 to Aubrey and Inez Blaylock Collins in Rankin County. Her family moved to Okolona when she was 5 years old and she lived on her homeplace all but the last couple of years of...
Jean Pannell
Jul 3, 2024
Dorothy Jean Cobb Pannell, 90, passed away Wednesday, July 3, 2024 at the North MS Medical Center. She was born March 30, 1934 in Lee County to Gilbert and Thelma Lipford Cobb. She loved her church family at Oak Valley Christian Church and lovingly took on the task of preparing communion, arranging flowers and playing the piano. She worked...
Bess Toler
Jul 1, 2024
Bess Bodie Toler, 100, passed away Monday, July 1, 2024 at Lifecare Center of Hickory Woods in Antioch, TN. She was born May 1, 1924 to James Samuel Bodie and Barzilla Hosey Bodie in Pearl River County, MS. She was a member of Harrisburg Baptist Church. She was the President of the Women's Literary Club of Tupelo, the lakeside...
Rev. John Edmond Cox
Jun 22, 2024
Reverend John Edmond Cox was born into time and mortality on August 27, 1941, in Monroe County, MS, to the union of Reverend Henry Allen Cox and Edna E. Davis Cox. On June 22, 2024, he transcended mortality and embraced immortality. A scholar of great distinction, he was educated in the Lee and Monroe County School Districts. He attended...
Eugene Debow
Jun 20, 2024
Eugene DeBow, 102, passed away Thursday, June 20, 2024, at The Brook assisted living facility in Birmingham, AL. He was born to Gordon DeBow and Maudie Broderick DeBow on January 31, 1922, in Fulton, MS. He graduated from the Itawamba Agricultural High School in the class of 1940. During World War II, Gene served four years with the Tenth...
Earline Gates
Jun 9, 2024
Earline Conway Gates, 83, passed away Sunday, June 9, 2024 at Shearer- Richardson Memorial Nursing Home in Okolona. She was born on September 23, 1940, to the late Qudelus Conway, Sr. and Cora B. Page Conway. She had a strong faith in God and a strong zest for life. She was one of Jehovah's Witnesses. Earline received her education...
Gloria Jean Driver
Jun 9, 2024
Gloria Jean Driver, 80, passed away Sunday, June 9, 2024 at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo. She was born April 25, 1944 to Ellis E. Newton and Hazel Elliott Newton in Morven, GA. She graduated from Pavo High School in Pavo, GA. She was baptized at an early age at her hometown community church in Georgia. As an adult...