Nancy Reese Choate
Apr 28, 2020
Nancy Reese Choate, 83, of Andover Township died Tuesday, April 28, 2020, at Morristown Medical Center's Mt. Kemble Division in Morristown, NJ. Born November 11, 1936 in Bruce, Mississippi, Nancy grew up in Rolling Fork with her parents, the late Seay and Juanella (Dove) Reese and her brother, Ned Seay Reese, III. Upon finishing high school, she attended...
Virginia "Jenny" Thornton
Apr 25, 2020
Houston- Mrs. Virginia Bell Smith Thornton, 85, passed away on Saturday, April 25, 2020 in Tupelo, Mississippi. "Jenny", as she was known to her family and friends, was born in Lowndes County, MS, on July 16, 1934 to James McCord and Sally Bell Shearer Smith and that year the family moved to Houston. Jenny graduated from Houston High School...
Billy Carter, Jr.
Apr 20, 2020
Mr. Warren William "Billy" Carter Jr., 82, passed away on Monday, April 20, 2020 at OCH Hospital in Starkville, Mississippi. He was born June 13, 1937 in Huntingdon, Tennessee to Warren William Carter and Cecil Emma McClure Carter. Billy was a retired farmer, a member of Mantee Baptist Church, a graduate of Mississippi State and was an avid MSU...
Homer Martin
Apr 19, 2020
Mr. Homer Malcolm "Mack" Martin, 75, passed away on Sunday, April 19, 2020 at his home in Mantee, Mississippi. Mack was born in Cumberland, Mississippi on December 24, 1944 to Oris Martin and Naomi Elizabeth Whitney Martin. He was a retired Deputy Circuit Clerk for Wayne County, Mississippi.
Houston Funeral Home will be in charge of the...
Sylvia Caulder
Apr 15, 2020
Pontotoc- Mrs. Sylvia "Sissy" Lynn Naron Caulder, 61, passed away on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, Mississippi. Sylvia was born in Vardaman, Mississippi on April 3, 1959 to Curtis Laverne Naron Jr. and Levy Mae Ward Naron. She was a homemaker and a member of Good Faith Baptist Church.
A private...
Gary "Hubby" Young
Apr 12, 2020
Mr. Gary H. "Hubby" Young, 79, passed away on Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020 at Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, Alabama. He was born May 17, 1940 in Calhoun County, Mississippi to Ross and Amy Chrestman Young. Gary graduated from Houlka High School in 1958 where he was voted Mr. HHS and Most Handsome. In 1959, Gary married his high...
Christine Harmon
Apr 6, 2020
Mrs. Clarice Christine "Chris" McQuary Harmon, 96, passed away on Monday, April 6, 2020 at her home in Houston, Mississippi. She was born in Woodland, Mississippi on December 19, 1923 to Marion Monroe McQuary and Rosa Lee Jennings McQuary. She was a homemaker who thoroughly enjoyed working with her flowers. Mrs. Christine Harmon was member of Pleasant Ridge Baptist...
Lynn Nabors
Apr 6, 2020
Mrs. Cathy Lynn Smith Nabors, 48, passed away on Monday, April 6, 2020 at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, Mississippi. Lynn Nabors was born in Houston, Mississippi on August 24, 1971 to Thomas Eli Smith and Elizabeth Ann Walls. She was the office manager at Leggett and Platt for 22 years. She also was a member of Macedonia...
Lena Mae Naron
Mar 30, 2020
Lena Mae Naron
Houston- Mrs. Lena Mae Doster Naron, 89, passed away on Monday, March 30, 2020 at North Mississippi Medical Center Hospice Unit in Tupelo, Mississippi. She was born in Pheba, Mississippi on March 27, 1931. She was a retired seamstress where she worked at Shannon Manufacturing. Mrs. Lena Mae Naron was member...
Jean Holliday
Mar 29, 2020
Jean Holliday
Houston- Jean Lancaster Holliday, 96, passed away March 29, 2020 at home surrounded by her family.
She was born June 9, 1923 to Dewey and Clytee (Murphree) Lancaster and was a lifelong
resident of Chickasaw County. She attended school in Van Vleet and graduated...
Mary Ruth Young
Mar 27, 2020
Houston- Mrs. Mary Ruth Andrews Criddle Young, 83, passed away on Friday, March 27, 2020 at her home in Houston, Mississippi. She was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas on March 6, 1937 to William Frank Andrews and Mary Ellen Weeks. She was a retired self employed newspaper editor and member of Arbor Grove Baptist Church in Houston, Mississippi....
Kathleen "Big Momma" Colbert
Mar 26, 2020
Columbus- Mrs. Mary Kathleen "Big Momma" Jones Colbert, 95, passed away on Thursday, March 26, 2020 at Aurora Health and Rehab in Columbus, Mississippi. She was born in Kennedy, Alabama on October 20, 1924 to Almer A. Jones and Annie Mae Bryant. She was a childcare provider for many years where she kept children in her home. ...
Angela "Angie" Johnson
Mar 25, 2020
West Point- Ms. Angela "Angie" Diane Stacks Johnson, 67, passed away on Wednesday, March 25, 2020 at her home in West Point, Mississippi. She was born in Arkansas on October 26, 1952 to Clyde Eugene Stacks and Mona Alexandria Smith Stacks. She was a homemaker.
Houston Funeral Home will be in charge of the...
Mina "Chic" Carter
Mar 18, 2020
Mina Ruth Cummings Carter arrived in her eternal home on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. She was born on February 21, 1926 in Pheba, Mississippi to parents Leonard Otto Cummings Sr. and Mina Emma Jenkins Cummings.
She was a graduate of Pheba Agricultural High School, where she was Valedictorian. She played basketball at Mississippi College for Women (MUW)...
Don Stepp
Mar 14, 2020
Mr. Don Barry Stepp, 76, passed away on Saturday, March 14, 2020 in Tupelo, Mississippi. He was born in Mobile, Alabama on March 21, 1943 to Charles Warren Stepp and Kathleen Tutor Stepp Moore. He was a retired furniture manufacturing employee. Mr. Stepp served in the United States Army, and then served in the Army National Guard of Houston....
Wilda Juckes
Mar 12, 2020
Mrs. Margaret Wilda Moore Juckes, 85, passed away on Thursday, March 12, 2020 in Aberdeen, Mississippi. She was born in Elgin Manitoba, Canada on November 11, 1934 to Robert Moore and Dorothy Mae Flannery Moore. She was the president of LimeCo Inc. from 1990-2002. She attended McCondy United Methodist Church.
Funeral Services will be held at Houston...
Joe Sellers
Mar 5, 2020
Mr. Joe Glenn Sellers, Jr., 47, passed away on Thursday, March 5, 2020 at his home in Houston, Mississippi. He was born in Indianola, Mississippi on April 16, 1972 to Joe Glenn Sellers, Sr. and Lalene McDaniel Henry. He was a truck driver for Lineal Pipeline out of Ohio before retiring due to his illness. Joe was a member...
Glenn Mccullough
Feb 18, 2020
Glenn McCullough
Tupelo- Mr. James Glenn McCullough, 39, passed away on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at his residence in Tupelo, Mississippi. He was born in West Point, Mississippi on October 25, 1980 to Michael "Mike" McCullough and Kathryn Moore McCullough. He worked with his family at the Barnes Crossing Eye Clinic in Tupelo as an optometrist technician....
John Calvin
Feb 14, 2020
Mr. John Elliott Calvin, 101, passed away on Friday, February 14, 2020 at his residence in Houston, Mississippi. He was born in Houston, Mississippi on October 2, 1918 to James Ervin Calvin and Mollie Davis Calvin. Shortly after graduation from Houston High School, he moved to Washington, D.C., after acquiring a job with the Federal government. He worked and...
Rudolph Mixon
Jan 13, 2020
Mr. James Rudolph Mixon, Sr., 89, passed away on Monday, January 13, 2020 at his home in Houston, Mississippi. He was born in Sparta, Mississippi on November 25, 1930 to James Dolf Mixon and Beulah Davis Mixon. Rudolph was a retired supervisor at Shannon Chair Company, and second in command at R&R Furniture. Rudolph was a member of Macedonia...
