Obituaries
Ted Valentine
Dec 12, 2022
Ted Stennett Valentine, 77, passed away on Monday, December 12, 2022, at his home. Ted was born on January 21, 1945, in Laurel, MS to Timothy Haskins and Edna Stennett Valentine. He graduated from Clemson University with a degree in civil engineering. For 38 years, he worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers stationed at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville and then worked...
Jake Plunkett
Dec 11, 2022
Jake Allen Plunkett, 30, passed away on December 11, 2022 at his residence in Biloxi. Jake was born in Columbus, MS on March 22, 1992 to Donald Jason Plunkett and Bridgette Newton Plunkett Boatner. Jake attended Akron High School in Akron, AL. He had a passion and love for the arts, writing music, drawing and playing chess. He also enjoyed being outdoors target...
Sally Pate
Dec 7, 2022
Sally M. Staten Pate, 92, passed away on Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at Dugan Memorial Home in West Point. She was born on July 19, 1930, in the Egypt Community to Samuel Dilworth and Myrtle Lawson Staten. She graduated school in Egypt, and she married John Thomas Newman in 1948 who later died in 1981. She married David Pate who also preceded her...
Judith Williams
Nov 28, 2022
Judith Lorraine Eubanks Williams, 76, passed away on Monday, November 28, 2022, at North. Mississippi Medical Center—Gilmore in Amory. She was born on November 14, 1946, in Lucedale, Mississippi to Houston and Ruth Ella Dungan Eubanks. Judith was a 1964 graduate of Aberdeen High School. She married Farrell Williams on May 11, 1974, and lived in Monroe County most of her life...
William Samuel Duncan, Jr.
Nov 20, 2022
William S. “WD” Duncan Sr., 66 passed away on Sunday, November 20, 2022 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Columbus. W.D. was born on June 25, 1956 in Amory to the late William S. Duncan, SR and Gloria Wherman Duncan. He was raised in Wren by his grandparents, CW and Leona Duncan, Henry August and Earnest Lee Wherman. W.D. attended Wren and Amory Schools...
Barbara Jenkins
Nov 12, 2022
Barbara Joyce Jenkins, 77, passed away on Saturday, November 12, 2022, at her home. A daughter of Dee Kay and Mary Evelyn Trimm Shackleford, she was born on November 17, 1944, in Shannon. Growing up in Shannon, she graduated Shannon High School and furthered her education, earning her LPN certificate from Itawamba Junior College in 1967. Beginning a long career, she was a...
James Dale "Jim" Galloway
Nov 12, 2022
James Dale “Jim” Galloway, 63, passed away at his residence on Saturday, November 12, 2022. He was born on October 14, 1959 in St. Louis to the late Jimmy and Linda Jones Galloway. James grew up in Flat River, MO and was a graduate of Central High School. He served in the United States Navy, sailing on the USS Saginaw. While on the...
Peggy Hodges
Nov 8, 2022
Peggy Jane Russ Hodges, 90, passed away on Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Columbus.
Peggy was born on September 28, 1932 in Needmore, Indiana to the late Orville and Laura Savannah Long Russ and then at an early age her family moved to Morgantown, Indiana where Peggy grew up and attended school.
After...
Mary Price
Oct 26, 2022
Mary Louise Tribble Price, 76, passed away on Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Columbus. She was born on March 4, 1946 in the Quincy Community to Jim Tribble and Lucille Thompson Stafford. She attended Quincy and Greenwood Springs School and graduated from Hatley High School. In 1995, she married Sonny Price. Mary worked as a seamstress in the area...
Mary Ann Easter
Oct 25, 2022
Mary Ann Jernigan Easter, 74, passed away on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at Diversicare Nursing and Rehab in Amory. She was born on May 29, 1948 in Monroe County to Marvin and Margaret Dodson Jernigan. Mary Ann grew up in Hatley and on October 13, 1964, she married Louis Easter. At a young age, she quit school to raise her sister, then raised...
A.L. Holloway
Oct 23, 2022
Just days short of his 70th birthday, AL went home to his Fathers house.
AL was born and raised in the Wren community. He had a fierce love and sense of protection for his friends and family. When his health declined nearly 17 years ago he moved in with his sister Fran and her husband Jimmy.
He led a...
Tina Hacker
Oct 21, 2022
Tina Ann Hacker, 55, passed away on Friday, October 21, 2022 at North Mississippi Medical Center—Gilmore in Amory. She was born in Texas on May 29, 1967 to Darrell and Barbara Ann Lindley Dykes. As a child, she moved with her family many times while her father was in the service. She did factory work most of her life and she enjoyed fishing...
Chris Stephenson
Oct 20, 2022
Christopher Ray Stephenson, 53, passed away on Thursday, October 20, 2022 at North Mississippi Medical Center—Gilmore in Amory. Born in Amory on March 19, 1969, he was the son of Danny and Teresa Foster Stephenson. He attended school in Smithville and graduated high school in Lampasas, TX. Chris was a man of many talents and according to his motto, he could fix anything,...
Dwight Pennington
Oct 19, 2022
Dwight Gainie Pennington, 69, passed away on Wednesday, October 19, 2022. Dwight was born in Columbus, MS on August 24, 1953 to the late James Robert and Dorothy Sloan Pennington. He grew up in Tupelo and graduated from Tupelo High School where he was a member of the band. After high school, he honorably served in the United States Marine...
Johnny Pounds
Oct 17, 2022
Johnny William Pounds, 71, passed away on Monday, October 17, 2022 at North Mississippi Medical Center—Gilmore in Amory. Born on September 30, 1951 in Monroe County to J.W. and Earline Rector Pounds. He grew up in the Bigbee Community and graduated from Amory High School in 1969. For many years, he worked as a very talented, self-employed carpenter. Johnny enjoyed playing golf and he...
Tiffany Dean
Oct 15, 2022
Tiffany Walden Dean, 51, passed away at her home on Saturday, October 15, 2022. She was born on March 13, 1971, in Houston, TX to Julian and Patricia Edgeworth Walden. Tiffany graduated from Aberdeen High School in 1989 and attended Mississippi State University where she graduated with a degree in education. She married Derrick Dean on August 10, 1996, who played football at...
Cecelia Louise Nichols
Oct 8, 2022
Cecelia Louise Nichols was born on December 2,1948 to the late John Robert Murray and Myrtis Louise Crump in Helena, AL.
She accepted Christ as her Savior at an early age. Cecelia was joined in union to Johnny L. Standifer to which a daughter was born in Amory, MS. She later married the late Spencer E. Nichols to which...
Iris Christian
Oct 5, 2022
Iris Irvin Christian, 88, passed away on Wednesday, October 5, 2022, at her residence. She was born on March 26, 1934, in Monroe County to Dow and Elba Nash Irvin. She was valedictorian of the Hatley High School class of 1952 and graduated from Freed-Hardeman College in 1954. She married T.F. Christian on December 24, 1955. While working at a...
Mary Fields
Sep 25, 2022
Mary Lynn Betts-Webb-Fields left this world to go to her eternal destination on September 25, 2022. Mary Fields was born February 10,1939 in Becker, MS to the late E.C.(Toad) and Edna Betts. She is preceded in death by her husband, Horace H. Webb and her second husband, John Fields. Also preceding her in death is her son, Clay A. Webb and...
Jimmie Lee Morgan, Sr.
Sep 23, 2022
Jimmie Lee Morgan, Sr., 89, passed away on Friday, September 23, 2022 at Oak Tree Manor in Amory. Born on October 3, 1932 in Attala County, he was a son to John Kelly and Mable Elizabeth Carroll Morgan. He grew up in Holmes County and in 1952 he enlisted in the US Air Force where he would serve for 18 years. On July...
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