Ray Reed Williams
Nov 11, 2020
Ray Williams, 51, died Wednesday, November 11, 2020, at the North MS Medical Center after a brief illness. He was born December 18, 1968 in Tupelo to Billy Ray and Coy Reed Williams. He was raised in Verona and attended Verona Elementary School and Shannon High School. He was the owner of Williams Service Center and a member...
Elsie Daugherty
Nov 7, 2020
Elsie Ray (Ellis) Daugherty, a resident of the Charleston Place assisted-living facility in Fulton, MS passed away peacefully in the company of loved ones on November 7, 2020 at North Mississippi Medical Center's Hospice Care Unit in Tupelo, MS. She was 90 years old. She will be buried alongside Thomas, her husband of 58 years, at Lee Memorial Park...
Edward Glyn Hester
Nov 7, 2020
Edward Glyn Hester, 77, of Nettleton, died Saturday, November 7, 2020, at Gilmore Memorial Regional Medical Center in Amory after a brief illness. He was born February 8, 1943, in Itawamba County to Herman Glyn Hester and Ruth Johnson Hester. He graduated from Nettleton High School then went on to graduate from Mississippi State University with a Business...
Denny "Wilkie" Pugh
Oct 31, 2020
Denny "Wilkie" Pugh, Sr., 80, died Saturday, October 31, 2020, at Sunshine Health Care in Pontotoc. He was born October 12, 1940, in Backus Mountain, West Virginia to Sam and Ella Pugh. He was a machinist at S and C Electrical in Chicago, IL for over 34 years. An avid outdoorsman, he loved nature and enjoyed hunting and...
Bobby Scott
Oct 25, 2020
Bobby Scott, 82, died Sunday, October 25, 2020, at the North MS Medical Center. He was born in Tishomingo County on March 13, 1938 to Coker and Veela Mae Scott. He served in the MS National Guard. He was a longtime truck driver and retired from Action Industries. He attended Friendship Baptist Church. He loved to farm and...
Linda Ridgeway
Oct 19, 2020
Linda Ridgeway, 74, died suddenly at her home Monday, October 19, 2020. She was born August 28, 1946 in Lee County to Beland and Flora Mae Dill. She was a member of Verona Pentecostal Church. She worked many years in the food business, working for West Main Barbeque and Vend Foods. She spent most of her time taking...
Jennie Buskirk Cox
Oct 17, 2020
Jennie Buskirk Cox, 82, died Saturday, October 17, 2020 at the North MS Medical Center, Hospice Unit. She was born in Tupelo on March 16, 1938, to Roy and Iva Arnold. She worked at the North MS Medical Center as an Operating Room Technician and later for Dr. Janice Burns. She was a longtime member of East Main...
Dorothy Mae Nelson
Oct 12, 2020
Dorothy Mae Nelson, 90, peacefully passed from this life Monday, October 12, 2020, at her home. She was born June 11, 1930 to Willie and Annie Lee Burns in Shannon. She attended Summer High School in St. Louis, MO, the first high school for African-American students west of the Mississippi River (founded in 1875). She sang on the...
Gradus Willard Gilliam
Oct 10, 2020
Gradus Willard Gilliam, 86, died Saturday, October 10, 2020, at his son's home in Alabama. He was born June 14, 1934, to John and Birtie Oswalt Marlow. He served his country in the United States Air Force. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Tupelo.
Funeral services will...
Lester Oakman
Oct 3, 2020
Lester H. Oakman, 73, passed away peacefully in his daughters' home in Knoxville TN on Saturday, October 3, 2020, after a lengthy illness surrounded by both of his children. He was born May 23, 1947 in LaHarpe, IL to Vernice and Earlean Oakman. After retiring from the Air Force, he moved his family to Shannon Ms. He worked...