Obituaries
Patricia Vaughn
May 24, 2021
Patricia Ann Mowery Vaughn, 73, passed away on Monday, May 24, 2021 at Starkville Manor Nursing Home. She was born on February 22, 1947 in Illinois and she was a graduate of Amory High School. Patricia loved to study her bible and she attended Victory Baptist Church. She liked gospel music and gardening. She enjoyed spending time with her friends...
Earline Holloway
May 24, 2021
Earline Holloway, 98, passed away on Monday, May 24, 2021 at Diversicare Nursing Home in Amory. She was born on October 10, 1922 in the Parham Community to Bailey Bryant and Ardie Glo Francis Fears. She grew up in the Parham Community and she was a graduate of Hatley High School. Prior to her retirement, she worked many years in...
Bob Angle
May 24, 2021
Robert Marvin “Bob” Angle, 69, passed from this life on Monday, May 24, 2021 at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle in Columbus. Born on March 2, 1952 in Greenwood, he was a son to Fred and Lucille Outzen Angle. Bob grew up in Amory and was a graduate of Amory High School and he was married to the former Dianne Tyus...
Lana Bass
May 23, 2021
Carollana Rose Bass, 13, passed away on Sunday, May 23, 2021 in Monroe County. Lana was born in Tupelo on December 30, 2007 to Edward Joseph Bass and Chari Elaine Harrington. Presently, she was a 6th grader at Mantachie School where she was just chosen for the junior high basketball and volleyball teams. She also played travel basketball. All the...
Bobby Murff
May 21, 2021
Bobby Gene Murff, 81, passed away on Friday, May 21, 2021 at River Place Nursing Center in Amory. He was born on April 17, 1940 in Monroe County to the late Woody Wilford Murff, Sr and Cora Funderburk Murff. He married the late Elaine Eubanks in 1962. Bobby was an old school trucker who believed in hard work, taking care...
Jimmy Minor
May 17, 2021
Jimmy Lionel Minor passed to glory on Monday May 17th, 2021 at his home in Lenoir City, TN. Born December 15th, 1949 in Amory, MS, he was a son to the late Lloyd B Minor and Grace Murphy Minor. He attended Mississippi State University. Jim loved building houses and especially log cabins. He worked as a security guard at Dollywood...
Billy Taylor
May 15, 2021
Billy Taylor, 78, passed away on Saturday, May 15 2021 at North Mississippi Medical Center- Gilmore. Arrangements will be announced mid day on Monday.
Johnny Parham
May 14, 2021
Johnny William Parham, 74, passed away on Friday, March 14, 2021 at his home. Born on March 24, 1947 in Amory, he was a son to Oscar and Dorothy Louise Miller Parham. He attended Hatley High School and married the former Vicki Carnathan on February 4, 1978. For several years, he worked for Loden’s Body Shop and then owned and...
Jim McCreary
May 5, 2021
Jimmie Lee “Jim” McCreary, also known as “Big Mac”, “Papa” and “Mr. Jim”, 65, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at NMMC in Tupelo, surrounded by his loved ones. Jim was born on December 9, 1955 in Cleveland, Ohio to the late Ellis and Hattie Duvall McCreary. He was a graduate of Itawamba Agricultural High School also a...
Louise Summerford
May 4, 2021
Nettie Louise Tarver Summerford, 80, passed away on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at her granddaughters residence in Aberdeen. Most widely known as Mama Louise, she was born on March 2, 1941 in Wagarville, AL to George Benton and Nettie Mary Lane Tarver. She was the widow of Otis Summerford whom she married on March 3, 1960. Louise was a member...
Dorothy Mills
May 3, 2021
Dorothy Louise Foster Mills, 75, passed away on Monday, May 3, 2021 at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Born in Houston on October 11, 1945 she was a daughter to Jessie and Lillie Terry Foster. She attended Houston and Okolona school and she married Donald Mills on May 16, 1964. For many years, she was the bookkeeper for Mills...
Betty Ann Burks
Apr 23, 2021
Betty Ann Moffett Burks, 74, peacefully slipped into eternity on Friday, April23, 2021 at Oak Tree Manor in Amory. She was born on January 31, 1947 in Monroe County to the late Charlie and Willie Lee Turner Moffett. She was married to the late Edward Burks. Betty Ann experienced polio at an early age, but it definitely never slowed her...
David Kuykendall
Apr 20, 2021
David Earl Kuykendall, 54, passed away on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. He was born on August 22, 1966 in Amory to Wayne Kuykendall and Kathleen Mitchell. He attended school in Hatley and later became disabled. Services will be at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 23, 2021 at Cleveland-Moffett Funeral Home in Amory. Survivors...
Sue Warren
Apr 19, 2021
Dorothy Sue Taylor Warren, 81, passed away on Monday, April 19, 2021 in Monroe County. She was born on December 10, 1939 in Saltillo to Lee Nathaniel and Frances Dunaway Taylor. She attended Saltillo schools and helped work the family farm. She married James Warren on January 22, 1965 and she had worked in area manufacturing but was a homemaker...
Donald McMinn
Apr 19, 2021
Donald McMinn, 82, passed away on Monday, April 19, 2021 at his home. Born on December 20, 1938 in Ackerman, he was a son to Harvey McMinn and Mary Elizabeth Ward Harrington. A 1957 graduate of Ackerman High School, he attended Holmes Junior College and also studied forestry at Mississippi State University. He proudly served in the MS Army National...
Randy Sloan
Apr 15, 2021
Randy Sloan, 41 passed away on Thursday, April 15, 2021 on the Sloan family homeplace where he had lived his entire life. He was born on April 20, 1979 in Amory to Larry and Mary Whitaker Sloan. Randy was a graduate of Hatley High School Class of 1997. Randy grew up on the family farm and his child hood was...
Jimmy Pounders
Apr 7, 2021
Jimmy Wesley Pounders, 76, passed away on Wednesday, April 7, 2021 at Diversicare Nursing Home in Amory. He was born on June 3, 1944 in Monroe County to Durwood K. and Hattie Mae McDuffa Pounders. He lived in Hamilton but then moved with his family to Apopka, FL when he was young and attended school there where he excelled in...
Betty Scruggs
Apr 6, 2021
Betty Jo King Scruggs, 71, passed away on Tuesday, April 6, 2021 at her home in Tupelo. Born on September 2, 1949 in Jackson, she was a daughter to Jesse Joe Allen and Viola McKay King. Prior to her retirement, she worked for a number of years in retail management. She loved to watch westerns and family get-togethers. In her...
Richard Holman
Apr 4, 2021
Dr. Melvin Richard “Dick” Holman, 84, passed away on Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021 at North Mississippi Medical Center-Gilmore Memorial in Amory. Born on October 12, 1936 in Warren County, Mississippi, he was a son to James Melvin and Musa Leona Curran Holman. A graduate of Carr Central High School, he also received his chemistry degree from Mississippi College and...
Erie Edna Holcomb
Mar 30, 2021
Erie Holcomb, 90, passed away on Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at Diversicare Nursing Home in Amory. Born on August 16, 1931, she was a daughter to James Pervy and Annie Novella Rawls Holcomb. She grew up in Greenwood Springs and was a 1951 graduate of Greenwood Springs High School. Prior to her retirement, she worked for many years in the...
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