OBITUARIES

Recent Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Columbus, Lowndes County & Surrounding Areas

Jewell F. Brown

Jewell F. Brown

Oct 17, 2005

Jewell F. Brown Columbus Mississippi - Jewell F. Brown 95 died October 17, 2005 at Homeplace of Columbus. Mrs. Brown was born in Monroe County to the late Erwyn Julius and Ollie Henderson Freeman. She was a member of Caledonia United Methodist Church. She graduated from Artesia High School as valedictorian and attended Draughn's Business College. She taught school for...

Henry Thomas "T.R." Richardson Jr.

Henry Thomas "T.R." Richardson Jr.

Oct 15, 2005

Henry Thomas "T.R." Richardson Jr. Columbus Mississippi - Henry Thomas "T.R." Richardson Jr. 64 died October 15, 2005 at his residence in Columbus. Mr. Richardson was born on March 31, 1941 in Columbus to the late Henry Thomas and Mary Lucille Smith Richardson Sr.. He was a member of Covenant Life Ministries and a U.S. Army Veteran. He was the...

Lonnie Russell

Lonnie Russell

Oct 10, 2005

Lonnie Russell Jr. Columbus MS - Lonnie Russell Jr.age 31 died October 10, 2005 at Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle,Columbus MS. Lonnie was born on June 5, 1974 in Bessemer Alabama to William Lonnie Russell Sr. and Deborah Tracy Kerr. He was a graduate of Bessemer Academy and a salesman for Premier Ford in Columbus. He was preceded in death...

Frances C. Dilley

Frances C. Dilley

Oct 4, 2005

Frances C. Dilley Caledonia Mississippi - Frances C. Dilley 81 died October 4, 2005 at her residence in Caledonia.Mrs. Dilley was born on April 6, 1924 in Swearingen Texas to the late Emory Hilous and Carrie Lucille Wise Cox. She was a member of Covenant Life Ministries Church, a retired seamstress for Seminole Manufacturing after 30 years and an avid...

Jacob E. Maze

Jacob E. Maze

Oct 1, 2005

Jacob E. Maze Clinton Mississippi - Jacob E. Maze 84 died October 1, 2005 at Baptist Medical Center,Jackson MS. . Graveside services will be Wednesday October 5, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. at Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery in Aberdeen with the Rev. Gary Maze officiating. Visitation will be Tuesday from 6 unitl 8 at Memorial Funeral Home. Survivors include his Wife...

Thomas L. Compton

Thomas L. Compton

Sep 23, 2005

Thomas L. "Tom" Compton Oxnard California - Thomas L. "Tom" Compton 52 died September 23, 2005 at his residence in Oxnard California. Mr.Compton was born on September 9, 1954 in Macon MS to the late Paul L. Compton and Carrie Johnson Compton. He was an active member of St. John's Lutheran Church. He was a former Columbus MS and Oxnard...

Harold L. Morris

Harold L. Morris

Sep 23, 2005

Harold L. Morris Columbus Mississippi - Harold L. Morris 85 died September 23, 2005 at his residence. Mr. Morris was born on May 18, 2005 in Locust Grove GA to the late Paul William and Rosa Stephens Morris. He had lived most of his life in Griffin GA before moving to Columbus. He was a veteran of WWII serving in...

Aythur Bobo Freeman

Aythur Bobo Freeman

Sep 23, 2005

Aythur Bobo Freeman Columbus Mississippi - Aythur Bobo Freeman 95 died September 23, 2005 at Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle. Mrs Freeman was born on September 9, 1910 in Alabama to the late Hugh and Mertie Abbott Bobo. She was a member of Lone Oak Church of Christ and the Woodlawn Homemakers Club. She was the retired owner/operator of Freeman's...

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...

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