Jamie Cox Sledd Mills

Jamie Cox Sledd Mills, age 94, died Thursday, August 17, 2017 at Collegeview Personal Care Home. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Memorial Funeral Home and Crematory. Visitation will be Friday, August 18, 2017 at Memorial Funeral Home from 5:00 PM to 7:00PM and one hour prior to the service Saturday. Services, with Rev. Glenn Miller officiating, will be at 11:00 AM Saturday, August 19, 2017 in the chapel of Memorial Funeral Home. Interment will immediately follow at Friendship Cemetery.

The daughter of the late Lewis Milford and Mary Louise Cox Sledd, Mrs. Mills was born in Columbus, MS on March 18, 1923. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Mississippi State College for Women and a Master’s degree in Library Science from the University of Alabama. She was employed for several years as the Librarian at Caledonia High School.  After receiving her Master’s degree, she taught Library Science at Mississippi University for Women until she retired. She was also the first Lowndes County  Library System's Bookmobile Librarian. She also started and organized the library at Main Street Presbyterian Church of which she was a member. She was also a member of the Pioneer Society, the Bernard Romans Chapter of the DAR and Beta Phi MU, librarians’ sorority.  In addition to her parents and her step-father Ed Chapman, she was predeceased by her sister Katharine “Betsy “Drane, brother Milford Sledd and her husband Arthur “Sarge” Mills.

She is survived by her sons and daughter-in-law Arthur Lewis and Silvia Mills and James Edward Mills, her niece Kathy McCoy (Mike), two great nieces and her special friend and caregiver Sissy McCoy, all of Columbus.

Pallbearers will be Chris Doughty, Randy Doughty, Mike Cranford, Lonnie Harris, Paul Swain and Mike McCoy. Honorary pallbearer will be Jacky Triplett.

Memorials are requested to the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library Archives, 314 7th Street North, Columbus, MS 39701 or to the Columbus-Lowndes Humane Society, P.O. Box 85, Columbus, MS 39703. <iframe id="tukios_player_512x330" allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="330" scrolling="no" src="https://www.tributeslides.com/videos/embedded_video/48PW4KWKQZWWDR7Y" width="512"></iframe>