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Local Obituaries for Columbus, Lowndes County & Surrounding Areas

Dessie Stapp

Dessie Stapp

Mar 10, 2006

Columbus Mississippi - Dessie H. Stapp 81 died March 10, 2006 at Sanctuary Hospice House,Tupelo MS. Mrs. Stapp was born on November 3, 1924 in Tallahatchie County Mississippi to the late Joe and Willie Dean Hugley Hendon. She was a member of The Seventh Street Church of Christ and a homemaker. She was married in 1949 to Jack Stapp and...

Hazel Wallace

Hazel Wallace

Mar 8, 2006

Mrs. Wallace was born on January 27, 1921 in Pickens County Alabama to the late George Earnest and Eura Mae Stokes Ashcraft. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church, a former Sunday School teacher and spent much time studying Biblical principals. She was a homemaker, a private duty sitter, and formally worked at the Reach Out Shelter of Abused...

Ruby Jewel Guin

Ruby Jewel Guin

Mar 7, 2006

Mrs. Guin was born on October 31, 1932 in Monroe County Alabama to the late Earlie R. and Emma Cantrell Cunningham. She was a homemaker and preceded in death by her husband Robert Malcom Guin, one sister Johnnie Merchant, and one sister-in-law Oleta White Cunningham. Funeral services will be Friday March 10, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. at Memorial Chapel with...

Pearl Townsend Smith

Pearl Townsend Smith

Mar 4, 2006

Pearl T. Smith Columbus MS - Pearl T. Smith 86 died March 4, 2006 at Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle. Mrs. Smith was born on October 2, 1919 to the late Joe and Minnie Vincent Townsend in Lauderdale County Mississipp and was reared in the Pine Spring Community. She was a member of Broadacres United Methodist Church, a homemaker and...

Julia Williams Taylor

Julia Williams Taylor

Mar 3, 2006

Julia Williams Taylor Columbus Mississippi - Julia Williams Taylor 84 died March 3, 2006 at her residence in Steen Mississippi. Mrs. Taylor was born Janurary 13, 1922 in Janurary to the late Daniel Luther and Mary Emma Bush Williams. She graduated from high school in New Albany and attended Morehead College prior to graduating from Mississippi State College for Women...

Rubye Agnes Robertson

Rubye Agnes Robertson

Mar 2, 2006

Rubye Agnes Robertson Columbus, MS - Rubye Agnes Robertson 88 died March 2, 2006 at Windsor Place Nusing Home in Columbus. Mrs. Robertson was born on November 19, 1917 in Steens Mississippi to the late Andrew Jackson and Rubye Lucy Perkins Robertson. She graduated from Steens High School in 1936. She attended the World Wide Church of God. She worked...

Dr. Miles Macgran

Dr. Miles Macgran

Mar 1, 2006

Dr. Miles MacGran Columbus Mississippi - Dr. Miles MacGran 86 died March 1, 2006 at his residence in Columbus. Dr. MacGran was born in on May 4, 1919 in St Paul Minnesota. He was a language professor who taught French, Spanish, and Italian at several universities including Mississippi University for Women, The University of Texas, Bellarmine College, St. Edward's University,...

Leland G. Hatton

Leland G. Hatton

Feb 25, 2006

Leland G. Hatton Columbus Mississippi - Leland G. Hatton 72 died February 25, 2006 at Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle. Mr. Hatton was born on June 10, 1933 in Iowa to the late Earl and Ethel Hatton. He was a member of the Methodist faith and a retired U.S. Air Force Master Sergant having served 20 years and in the...

Gladys Reeves

Gladys Reeves

Feb 23, 2006

Columbus, MS - Gladys Reeves, 71, died February 23, 2006 at North MS Medical Center in Tupelo. Mrs. Reeves was born on November 3, 1934 in Columbus to the late Almus Ganner and Louvie Maude Boyd Hall. She attended Living Faith Tabernacle Church and was a former employee of Sanderson Plumbing and Maxxim Medical. In addition to her parents she...

Mary Meador Moody

Mary Meador Moody

Feb 22, 2006

Mary Meador Moody Denison Texas - Mary Meador Moody 86 died February 22, 2006 at Texoma Medical Center in Texas. Mrs. Moody was born on November 12, 1919 in Electric Mills Mississippi. She taught in the Denison TX School System and was a graduate of Mississippi State College for Women and held a Masters degree from Austin College. She was...

A. E. Johnson

A. E. Johnson

Feb 22, 2006

Columbus Mississippi - Albin Evan "Dude" Johnson Jr. age 80 died February 22, 2006 at Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle. Mr. Johnson Jr. was born on October 18, 1925 in Marion Alabama to the late Albin Evan and Ida Pearl Stephens Johnson Sr. He was a member of Central United Methodist Church, the founder of Johnson Truck Leasing, and a...

Willie B. Kost

Willie B. Kost

Feb 20, 2006

Willie B. Kost Columbus, MS - Willie B. Kost age 77 died February 20, 2006 at Baptist Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Kost was born on February 27, 1928 in Red Bay Alabama to the late Noah and Nancy Holland Humphries. She was a member of Caanan Baptist Church and a homemaker. In addition to he parents she was preceded in death...

Lovie E. Sparks

Lovie E. Sparks

Feb 20, 2006

Columbus Mississippi - Lovie E. Sparks 85 died February 20, 2006 at Aurora Australis lodge. Mrs. Sparks was born on October 2, 1920 in Millport Alabama to the late David Paul and Eppie Lee McDaniel Bryant. She was employed by Hardin's Bakery and married Buford D. Sparks in 1945. She later retired from Sanderson Plumbing after 25 years. She was...

Martha Sue Conner

Martha Sue Conner

Feb 19, 2006

Martha Sue Conner Caledonia Mississippi - Martha Sue Conner 74 died February 19, 2006 at Vineyard Court Nursing Home. Miss Conner was born on April 6, 1931 in Caledonia MS to the late John H. and Nancy Jane Smith Conner. She was a member of the Caledonia Church of Christ. Funeral services will be Tuesday February 21, 2006 at 2:00...

Louise White

Louise White

Feb 18, 2006

Bertie Louise White died on February 18, 2006, at Regency/Riley Hospital in Meridian, Mississippi from a heart attack. She had been in declining health for many years. Louise was born in Columbus on May 5, 1914. She was a class of 31 graduate of Lee High School. She attended elementary school at Demonstration. She is survived by her husband, Herbert...

Demaris L. Cook

Demaris L. Cook

Feb 17, 2006

Demaris L. Cook Columbus Mississippi - Demaris L. Cook 75 died February 17, 2006 at Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle. Mrs. Cook was born in South Carolina on November 27, 1930 to the late John George and Irene Long Causey. She was a homemaker and was preceded in death by her husband James W. Cook. Funeral services will be Tuesday...

Pauline Perrigin

Pauline Perrigin

Feb 16, 2006

Pauline Perrigin, 70, died February 16, 2006 at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, MS. Mrs. Perrigan was born on June 3, 1935 in Columbus to the late Ralph and Hattie Hodge Smith . She was a member of New Life Fellowship Church, a former employee of Beneke Corporation, and a homemaker. In addition to her parents, she was preceded...

Rev. Carey Sansing

Rev. Carey Sansing

Feb 12, 2006

Rev. George Carey Sansing Columbus, MS - Rev. George Carey Sansing 91 died February 12, 2006 at Aurora Australis Lodge. Rev. Sansing was born on May 5, 1914 to the late George David and Lena Lee Adams Sansing. He was a member of New Covenant Baptist Church. He was a retired Southern Baptist Minister in Texas and Mississippi for 65...

Nora Carley Vandevender

Nora Carley Vandevender

Feb 11, 2006

Justin, Texas - Nora Carley Vandevender 91 died February 11, 2006 at Longmeadow Healthcare Center in Justin, Texas. Mrs. Vandevender was born on January 12, 1914 in Richton, MS to the late John Thomas Carley and Sena Mary Kemper Carley. She lived in Columbus many years and was employed by Sanderson Plumbing Products (formerly Beneke Corporation) for several years until...

Thomas Ernest Brownlee Jr.

Thomas Ernest Brownlee Jr.

Feb 10, 2006

Thomas Ernest Brownlee Jr. 75 died February 9, 2006 at Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle. Mr. Brownlee was born on November 28, 1930 in Columbus to the late Thomas E. and Frances Leola Wright Brownlee Sr. He was a retired machinist and gunsmith. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his wife Marie Junkins Brownlee. Graveside...

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