Mar 16, 2025

Edith Ann Gaines, 86, passed away Sunday, March 16, 2025 at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo.  She was born March 18, 1938 to Hubert Durett Stephens, Jr. and Edith Ann O'Connor Stephens. She was a longtime employee of Carozza Furniture. She was a member of Brewer Baptist Church. She enjoyed playing the piano, listening to gospel music, bird watching,...

Mar 15, 2025

Peggy Marie Crump joyfully went to her heavenly home to be with her Lord and Savior on Saturday, March 15, 2025. She passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her family. Born November 21, 1943, in Tupelo, Mississippi, as the youngest child of the late Tillman Rial Ewing and Dessie Grant Ewing.

After graduating from Tupelo High...

Mar 14, 2025

Elsie Weatherford, 90, passed away Friday, March 14, 2025 at Creekside Manor. She was born in Arkansas on November 25, 1934 to Elbert and Beulah Bennett. She worked many years at Wal Mart as a Sales Associate and as a Greeter. She was a longtime, faithful member of Mayfield Church of Christ. She loved reading and studying her Bible....

Mar 13, 2025

Jean Stephens

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Martha Jean Stephens, age 88, passed away peacefully on March 13, 2025, surrounded by her family. She was born in Ripley on July 8, 1936, to Alford and Dora Ellis. She was the oldest of 9 children. She married the love of her life, Johnny Stephens, on June 9, 1956. Jean...

Mar 7, 2025

Jackie Henry Ray, 85, of Okolona, passed away Friday March 7, 2025 at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo.He was born February 6, 1940 to Andrew Jackson Ray and Clara Bell Weaver Ray in Chickasaw County. He served in the U.S. Army and was a member of Pearson Chapel Church of the Nazarene. He was known by many names;...

Mar 7, 2025

Joyce Bishop Lee, 86, passed away Friday, March 7, 2025 at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo.  She was born October 22, 1938 to Cecile Lester Bishop and Bernice Inez Garrett Bishop. She was an faithful member of First Baptist Church in Saltillo. She began the first food pantry of Saltillo FBC and organized it for over 20 years....

Mar 4, 2025

Norma Jean Pickens, 96, passed away Tuesday, March 4, 2025 at Sunshine Healthcare in Pontotoc where she resided for a little over a year.  She was born August 13, 1928 and she lived in Shannon most of her life. She was a wonderful mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. She lived a long and purposeful life. She was a wonderful...

Feb 26, 2025

Helen "Frog" Hall, 93, passed away Wednesday, February 26, 2025, from her residence in Shearer Richardson Nursing Home. She was born in Tupelo on January 8, 1932 in Tupelo to Norman and Hattie Rogers McMurry.  She was a homemaker and along with her husband, they operated a dairy farm. She was a Baptist. She loved sitting on her porch...

Feb 15, 2025

Gladys Anderson, 99, passed away Saturday February 15, 2025 at the North MS Medical Center Hospice. She was born July 9, 1925 in the Pontocola Community to Victor and Bertha Bryant Buskirk. She worked during World War II at the ammunition plant and was an excellent homemaker. She was a Baptist by faith and a member of a Baptist...

Feb 2, 2025

Betty Jean Hamilton, 95, passed away on Sunday, February 2, 2025, at her home surrounded by her loving family. She was born on November 22, 1929, in Indiana to Glenn and Mary Campbell Martin. She then moved to Tennessee and finally made Mississippi  her permanent home in 1974. In 1976, she began her first career as an executive secretary...