OBITUARIES

Recent Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Columbus, Lowndes County & Surrounding Areas

James D. Green

James D. Green

Sep 21, 2005

James D. Green Columbus Mississippi - James D. Green 74 died September 21, 2005 at Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle. Mr. Green was born on September 15, 1931 in Green County MS to the late Lloyd and Elmer Reeves Green. He was a member of Lovewell Baptist Church and a retired truck driver. In addition to his parents he was...

Jackie L. Burks Sr.

Jackie L. Burks Sr.

Sep 21, 2005

Jackie L. Burks Sr. Aberdeen Mississippi - Jackie L. Burks Sr. 68 died September 21, 2005 at North MS Medical Center,Tupelo MS. Mr. Burks was born on October 29, 1936 in Grubb Springs MS to the late Millard V. and Velma Young Burks. He was a member of East End Baptist Church and a Viet Nam war veteran serving in...

Ruby E. Turner

Ruby E. Turner

Sep 21, 2005

Ruby E. Turner Columbus Mississippi - Ruby E. Turner 70 died September 21, 2005 her residence. Mrs. Turner was born on November 16, 1934 in Little Rock Arkansas to the late Andrew Jackson and Lucy Evelyn Stimpson Lantrip. She was a member of the Baptist Faith and worked as a nurses aid in several nursing homes. She always had a...

Barbara Vincent Jennings

Barbara Vincent Jennings

Sep 14, 2005

Barbara V. Jennings D'Iberville Mississippi - Barbara V. Jennings 70 died September 14, 2005 at Central MS Medican Center. Mrs. Jennings was born on June 28, 1935 in Big Point Mississippi to the late Herbert G. and Daisey Garner Vincent. She was a member of Brodie Baptist Church and a retired nurse at Doster Hospital and Columbus Hospital Inc. After...

Donald Herbert Tedford Jr.

Donald Herbert Tedford Jr.

Sep 13, 2005

Herbert Tedford Sr. Columbus Mississippi - Herbert Tedford Sr. 67 died September 13, 2005 at Aurora Australis Lodge. Mr. Tedford was born on December 5, 1937 in Carbon Hill Alabama to the late Donald Gates and Hazel Pennington Tedford. He was a retired Machinist at Monroe Tufline. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his first...

Virginia Shelley Dornan

Virginia Shelley Dornan

Sep 6, 2005

Virginia S. Dornan Columbus Mississippi - Virginia S. Dornan 86 died September 6, 2005 at Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle. Mrs. Dornan was born in New Albany Mississippi on August 15, 1919 to the late Er M. and Lucille Wall Shelley. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church and the Cherokee Garden Club. She was a graduate of S.D....

Mary Elizabeth Proffitt

Mary Elizabeth Proffitt

Sep 3, 2005

Mary Elizabeth Proffitt Columbus Mississippi - Mary Elizabeth Proffitt 95 died September 3, 2005 at Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle,Columbus MS. Mrs. Proffitt was born on February 23, 1910 in Lowndes County to the late James Ambrose and Alice Thomas McCrary. She was a member of First Baptist Church Columbus, a homemaker and a member of the Homemakers Club of...

Dwight M Watts Sr.

Dwight M Watts Sr.

Sep 1, 2005

Dwight M. Watts Sr. Columbus Mississippi - Dwight M. Watts Sr. 90 died September 1, 2005 at his residencein Columbus MS. Mr. Watts was born November 16, 1914 in Canton Mississippi to the late Charles Dudley and Emma Anderson Watts. He was a member of Central United Methodist Church and a 1941 graduate of Mississippi State University. After college he...

Rose Marie Young

Rose Marie Young

Aug 24, 2005

Rose M. Young Brooksville Mississippi - Rose M. Young 72 died August 26, 2005 at St. Vincent's Hospital,Birmingham AL Mrs. Young was born on February 8, 1933 in Puchuta MS to the late Eddie and Olivia Kisher Green. She was a homemaker and a loving mother and grandmother. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her...

Elizabeth "'Betty" Mitchell

Elizabeth "'Betty" Mitchell

Aug 22, 2005

Elizabeth Belk Betty Mitchell, 80, died Monday, August 22, 2005, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Columbus. Services will be Wednesday, August 24, 2005, at 1 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Columbus with Dr. Bobby Douglas officiating. Burial will be in Friendship Cemetery in Columbus. Visitation will Wednesday, August 24, 2005, from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the First...

Lela B. Ray

Lela B. Ray

Aug 19, 2005

Lela B. Ray Mrs. Ray was born September 13, 1931 in Lyndon Kansas to the late Leland and Hazel Humphrey Duff. She was a member of Main Street Presbyterian Church where she was active in Missionary Support. She was a retired secretary for the base exchange at Columbus Air Force Base. After her retirement she spent her time volunteering for...

Peggy I. Bell

Peggy I. Bell

Aug 16, 2005

Peggy Irene Burns Bell Columbus, Mississippi - Peggy Irene Burns Bell, 74, died August 16, 2005, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle in Columbus, Mississippi. Mrs. Bell was born January 25, 1931, in Columbus, MS, the daughter of the late: John Lewis and Lillian Mae Oglesby Burns. She married William Leon Bell on January 25, 1963, in Columbus, MS. She was...

Arnold L. Fant

Arnold L. Fant

Aug 10, 2005

Arnold L. Fant Columbus Mississippi - Arnold L. Fant 79 died August 10, 2005 at Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle,Columbus MS. Mr. Fant was born on July 11, 1926 in Franklin County Mississippi to the late Claude Richard and Alpha Cantrell Fant. He was a member of Columbus First Baptist Church and retired from Columbus Light & Water after 35...

Watt Mclellan Brock

Watt Mclellan Brock

Aug 8, 2005

Watt McLellan Brock, Sr. Columbus, Mississippi - Watt McClellan Brock, Sr. 85, died August 8, 2005, at his Home in Columbus, Mississippi. Mr. Brock was born September 25, 1919, in Holmes County, MS, the son of the late: Edmund and Rosa McLellan Brock. He was a member of Central United Methodist Church in Columbus, MS. He was a retired insurance...

Connie Jean Hefner

Connie Jean Hefner

Aug 4, 2005

Connie Jean Hatton Hefner Columbus, Mississippi - Connie Jean Hatton Hefner, 52, died August 4, 2005, at her Home in Columbus, Mississippi. Mrs. Hefner was born October 6, 1953, in Waterloo, Iowa, the daughter of Leland Gene and Marlys Ethel Thomas Hatton. She was a homemaker. She was a Methodist. She loved and was especially gifted at caring for animals....

Nancy J. Vonkohn

Nancy J. Vonkohn

Aug 4, 2005

Nancy Freeman Jones VonKohn Columbus, Mississippi - Nancy Freeman Jones VonKohn, 73, died August 4, 2005, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle, in Columbus, Mississippi. Mrs. Nancy was born August 23, 1931, in Macon, MS, the daughter of the late George Phillips and Annie Matt Jackson Jones. She was a homemaker. She was a devoted mother, wife, and sister spending 22...

W.E. "Bill" Tidwell

W.E. "Bill" Tidwell

Aug 3, 2005

W.E. BILL TIDWELL W. E. Tidwell, 91, formerly of Columbus, MS and Shawnee Mission, KS passed away Wednesday, August 3 at his home in Rancho Viejo, TX. Graveside services will be held Saturday August 13, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. at Friendship Cemetery. Prior to his retirement in 1974, Bill Tidwell was a developer in the Greater Kansas City area. He...

Carroll Coward

Carroll Coward

Jul 31, 2005

Carroll Coward Columbus Mississippi - Carroll Coward 67 died July 31, 2005 at his residence. Mr. Coward was born on September 3, 1937 in Morton MS to the late Jodie and Cleo Smith Coward. He was a 1958 graduate of Mississippi State University and an accountant for Weyerhouser Corporation and a U.S. Air Force Veteran. Funeral services will be Friday...

Dorothy S. "Dot" Coward

Dorothy S. "Dot" Coward

Jul 31, 2005

Dorothy S. "Dot" Coward Columbus Mississippi - Dorothy S. "Dot" Coward 71 died July 31, 2005 at her residence. Mrs. Coward was born on January 3, 1934 in Natchez MS to the late Oscar C. Stewart Sr. and the late Jessie Louise Johnson Stewart Posey. She was a retired teller for First Federal Savings and Loan of Columbus. In addition...

Dorothy Hughes Dale

Dorothy Hughes Dale

Jul 31, 2005

Dorothy H. Dale Columbus Mississippi - Dorothy H. Dale 86 died July 31, 2005 at Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle,Columbus MS. Daughter of the late Late: Cyril A. Hughes and Elizabeth Castle, and predeceased by her husband S.S. Dale. Family graveside services will be held Tuesday August 2, 2005 at 11: 00 a.m. at Friendship Cemetery. Memorial services will be...

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