William Stephen Cochran

William Stephen Cochran, 67, of Columbus,  died Friday, August 21, 2020, after a long battle with Parkinson's  at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo, MS. Visitation will be from  11:00 AM to 12:00 PM  Tuesday, August 25, 2020 at Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home & Crematory, College Street location. A  graveside service with Father Jeffrey Waldrep, Celebrant, will immediately  follow at Friendship Cemetery.  Funeral arrangements have been entrusted  to Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home & Crematory, College Street location.

The son of the late Billy Joe and Betty Jean Dean Cochran, Mr. Cochran was born February 15,1953 in Newport, AR.  He worked as a master plumber and journeyman pipefitter in Houston, TX for twenty years. He moved to Columbus in 1992 and earned a degree in Industrial Technology from Mississippi State University. He worked at American Glass Company in Columbus as a Project Manager. He loved to run and ride his bicycle and competed in numerous triathlons. He loved making things with his hands , which is evident by the wooden gazebo and archway in his backyard and a large BBQ pit, which he welded from scratch from an old iron boiler. He was a loving husband, father and grandfather.

He is survived by his wife Mimi Myers Cochran, his daughter and son-in-law Kelley and Jon Comer of Perry, GA, and his granddaughter Charlotte Elizabeth Comer,  his brother and sister-in-law Sean and Petra Cochran of Houston, TX , and  his sister and brother-in-law Anna and Mike Melton of Canutillo, TX.

His family would like to thank the staff of Philwood Suites, Windsor Place, Sanctuary Hospice House, his personal trainer Joy Garrison and his caregiver Jamie Lott for all of the love and compassion shown to Stephen during his illness.

Memorials may be made to Parkinson's Foundation, 200 SE 1st Street, Suite 800, Miami, FL 33131.