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Hubert Leroy Guin
Dec 21, 2018
Hubert Leroy Guin, age 84, died Friday, December 21, 2018, at Gilmore Memorial Hospital in Amory, MS. He was born August 29, 1934, in Monroe County to Clyde Guin, Sr. and Bessie Taylor Guin. He was a lifelong resident of Monroe County. He was a retired truck driver for Merchants Truck Line. He was a charter member of the GMT...
Viola Hawkins Whitaker
Dec 21, 2018
Viola Hawkins Whitaker, 96, died Friday, December 21, 2018, at the Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle in Columbus, MS. She was born August 12, 1922, in Hamilton to W.T. Hawkins and Dora Hawkins. She was a life long resident of Monroe County. She was a homemaker and affiliated with the Church of God. Survivors include two daughters Sarah Mattison (Winford) of Columbus...
Boyd Ray Boland, Sr.
Dec 20, 2018
Boyd Ray Boland, Sr., 82, passed away Thursday, December 20, 2018, at Gilmore Memorial Hospital in Amory after an extended illness. He was born August 23, 1936, in Calhoun County to Ira Eugene Boland Sr. and Ida Bell (Hubbard) Boland. He lived most of his life in Nettleton and was a Baptist. He worked at Tecumseh Products and retired after...
Donny Joe (Joey) Edwards
Dec 15, 2018
Donny Joe (Joey) Edwards, 60, passed away suddenly Saturday, December 15, 2018, at North MS Medical Center. He was born on February 1, 1958, in Lee County to Joe Hollis and Mavis Joye McIntire Edwards. He had lived most all of his life in Lee County, was a 1976 graduate of Shannon High School, became a journeyman wireman for IBEW...
Julia ‘Judy’ Dahlem Cox
Dec 14, 2018
Julia ‘Judy’ Dahlem Cox, 59, passed away December 14, 2018, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. She was born December 18, 1958, in Aberdeen, MS to Julius Dahlem and Hazel Atkins Dahlem of the Darracott community. Judy graduated from Aberdeen High School in 1976 and attended Itawamba Junior College in Fulton, Mississippi. She married Danny ‘Kevin’ Cox on January...
James L. (Sport) Dodds
Dec 7, 2018
James L. (Sport) Dodds, 59 died Friday, December 7, 2018, at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Columbus, MS. He was born November 19, 1959, in Fairbanks, Alaska to James Franklin Dodds and Kathryn Davis Dodds. He had lived in Aberdeen for the past five years. He was retired from the United States Air Force. He was a beloved husband, father,...
Woodie T. Taylor
Dec 5, 2018
Woodie T. Taylor, age 81, died Wednesday, December 5, 2018, at Gilmore Memorial Hospital in Amory. He was born November 17, 1937, to Woodie Taylor and Lillian West Taylor in Quincy, MS. He was a lifelong resident of Monroe County. He was a 1955 graduate of White Haven High School in Memphis, TN. He was the United States Air Force...
Marlin Gene West, Sr
Dec 5, 2018
Hamilton — Marlin Gene West, Sr., 82, passed away Friday, December 07, 2018, at Care Center in Aberdeen.
Billy Joe Hester
Dec 3, 2018
Billy Joe Hester, 79, passed away Monday, December 3, 2018, at New Albany Health and Rehab Center in New Albany, MS after an extended illness. He was born in West Ridge, AR on February 6, 1939, to Carl and Addie (Raines) Hester. He had lived most of his life in Topeka, KS before moving to Nettleton, MS. He was a...
Canary Rebecca Gullick Howell
Dec 3, 2018
Canary Rebecca Gullick Howell, 98, of Hattiesburg died Monday, December 3, 2018, at Bedford Care. Mrs. Howell was the departmental secretary for the History Department Chair at the University of Mississippi. She was preceded in death by her husband, George Whiteman Howell, Jr.; her parents, John and Lucy Gullick, Sr.; one sister, Lucy Myrtle Owen and four brothers, John M....
Frank Riley
Dec 2, 2018
Memory Frank Riley, 90, passed away on Monday, December 2, 2018, at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo after an extended illness. A native and lifelong resident of Nettleton, he was born on November 18, 1928, in Itawamba County to Memory C. and Blanche Copeland Riley. He was a graduate of Nettleton High School, was employed by the railroad for three...
William Jason Jones
Nov 30, 2018
William Jason Jones, 32, passed away Friday, November 30, 2018, at his home in Nesbit, MS. Jason was a brilliant academic, a devoted husband, and a caring friend. He was a valued member of the University of Mississippi Writing Project, a professor at Northwest Community College, and head of the NWCC writing center. He made a difference in the lives...
Bettie Jewel Rodgers Phillips
Nov 28, 2018
Bettie Jewel Rodgers Phillips departed this life on Wednesday, November 28, 2018, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo at the age of 80. She was born to Andrew and Bettie Brazzell Rodgers on December 7, 1937, in Aberdeen, MS where she lived her entire life. On January 1, 1956, she married Jeff Phillips who passed away on December 29,...
Nanon Wynene Moore Jones
Nov 26, 2018
Nanon Wynene Moore Jones, age 82, died Monday, November 26, 2018, at Baptist Memorial Hospital Hospice in Columbus, MS. She was born November 2, 1936, to Pervy Moore and Wilma Smith Moore in Faulkner, AL. She was a graduate of Kennedy Alabama High School. She moved to Aberdeen in 1964. She was a member of Aberdeen Church of Christ. She...
Perry Dewayne Elliott
Nov 26, 2018
Perry Dewayne Elliott, 45, passed away suddenly on Monday, November 26, 2018, at North MS Medical Center. He was born on September 20, 1973, in Tupelo to Leonard and Joyce Hester Elliott. He had lived most all of his life in Nettleton, was a graduate of Nettleton High School, was a store manager at Murphy U.S.A. in Amory, was a...
Lottie Lorene Kennedy Jones
Nov 24, 2018
Lottie Lorene Kennedy Jones, 88, passed away Saturday, November 24, 2018, at Gilmore Memorial Hospital in Amory after an extended illness. She was born on February 16, 1930, in Lee County to Romie Pickens and Clemmie Kimble Kennedy. She was a lifelong resident of Nettleton, a beautician, and was the last charter member of Jones Chapel Baptist Church. She enjoyed...
Jeremy “Jerry” Patterson, Sr.
Nov 21, 2018
Jeremy “Jerry” Patterson, Sr., 48, passed away suddenly, Wednesday, November 21, 2018, at The Medical Center of Southeast Texas. He was born on February 14, 1970, in Amory to Dale and Elizabeth Williams Patterson. He had lived most all of his life in the Lee and Monroe County area, before moving to Groves, TX area ten years ago. Jeremy was...
Leon “Noochie” Woods
Nov 20, 2018
Leon “Noochie” Woods, age 83, died Tuesday, November 20, 2018, at his residence in Aberdeen. He was born August 10, 1935, to Rufus C. Woods and Locke Irene Merchants Woods in Hamilton, MS. He was a lifelong resident of Monroe County and was a member of Hamilton United Methodist Church. He retired from Walker Manufacturing after thirty-four years. Survivors include...
Wayne “Chief” Williams
Nov 20, 2018
Wayne “Chief” Williams, 71, died Tuesday, November 20, 2018, at his residence. He was born on November 1, 1947, in Aberdeen, MS to Herman Boyd “Speck” Williams and Lottie Brewer Williams. He was a lifelong resident of Aberdeen, MS. He worked at Speck’s Service Station in Aberdeen. He graduated from Chamberlain-Hunt Military Academy in Port Gibson, MS. He was in...
Ruth Ray Brown
Nov 19, 2018
Ruth Ray Brown, age 92, died Monday, November 19, 2018, at Care Center of Aberdeen. She was born October 8, 1926, to John M. Ray and Mildred Morgan Ray in Aberdeen. She was a graduate of Aberdeen High School and attended MSCW in Columbus. She retired as a secretary for the MS State Joint Budget Committee. She was a member...
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