Obituaries
Thomas William King
Jan 13, 2023
Thomas William King, 80, passed away on Friday, January 13, 2023 at NMMC – Gilmore in Amory. Thomas was born in Amory on February 13, 1942 to the late Virgil Homer King and Pauline Allred King. Thomas attended Hatley School and served for nearly 25 years in the Mississippi Army National Guard. He married Becky Hill on November 17, 1978. Thomas worked as...
Garon Dale Roby
Jan 12, 2023
Garon Dale Roby “Roby” known as the area pork skin guy was always the life of the party. He was born on February 6, 1962, in Tupelo, Mississippi. He graduated from IAHS in 1980. He worked at Red Lobster for several years where he was known for his awesome personality as the top waiter. He worked for his dad...
Danny Stanford
Jan 6, 2023
Danny Michael Stanford, “Big $ Dan,” 57, passed away on Friday, January 6, 2023 at his home in Smithville. He was born on June 21, 1965 in Amory to James Radden and Gladys Marie Seales Stanford. Danny graduated from Smithville High School and attended Itawamba Junior College. He worked in maintenance at Cooper Tire and then at Yokahama before retiring. He enjoyed working the...
Ronald Beam
Dec 31, 2022
Ronald Beam, 62, passed away on Saturday, December 31, 2022 at North Mississippi Medical Center-Gilmore in Amory. Ronald was born in Tupelo on November 4, 1960 and was a son to Jimmie Glen and Ruby Fay Johnson Beam. “RB” as he was known to his friends and community, grew up in Smithville and was a 1978 graduate of Smithville High School. A totally...
Avis Gosa
Dec 29, 2022
Avis Jeffreys Carter Gosa, 95, of the Athens Community passed away on Thursday, December 29, 2022 at her home. She was born in Marion County, AL to John and Icie Cantrell Jeffreys. She married Coy Gosa in 1970 and she was a retired Licensed Practical Nurse receiving her education and training from Itawamba Junior College graduating in 1971. She worked for Dr. Richard...
George Householder
Dec 25, 2022
George Vance Householder, 80, passed away on Sunday, December 25, 2022 at his home. Born in Sikeston, MO on November 23, 1942, he was a son of Louis and Patsy Ruth Cobb Householder. George farmed most of his life and he married the former Joy Shuerenberg in 1963. He liked to attend gun shows and he was an avid hunter.
A private...
Tommy Armstrong
Dec 23, 2022
Tommy Dewayne Armstrong, 58, passed away suddenly on Friday, December 23, 2022 in Franklin, OH. He was born on February 3, 1964 in Aberdeen to Jim Coleman, Jr. and Mae Dodd Armstrong. Tommy grew up in the Athens-Quincy Community and for many years, he worked in the landscape business before becoming an OTR trucker, which he loved. He was driving for Royal Trucking...
Ronnie Hurley
Dec 14, 2022
Ronald Dean Hurley, 63, passed away at his residence in Amory. Born on August 19, 1959, in Tupelo, he was a son of Grady Lee and Charlie Ray Pate Hurley. Ronnie was a graduate of Hatley High School, and he was an accomplished mechanic for many years. He could fix just about anything and loved to tinker with stuff. He was formerly employed by...
Ted Valentine
Dec 12, 2022
Ted Stennett Valentine, 77, passed away on Monday, December 12, 2022, at his home. Ted was born on January 21, 1945, in Laurel, MS to Timothy Haskins and Edna Stennett Valentine. He graduated from Clemson University with a degree in civil engineering. For 38 years, he worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers stationed at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville and then worked...
Jake Plunkett
Dec 11, 2022
Jake Allen Plunkett, 30, passed away on December 11, 2022 at his residence in Biloxi. Jake was born in Columbus, MS on March 22, 1992 to Donald Jason Plunkett and Bridgette Newton Plunkett Boatner. Jake attended Akron High School in Akron, AL. He had a passion and love for the arts, writing music, drawing and playing chess. He also enjoyed being outdoors target...
Sally Pate
Dec 7, 2022
Sally M. Staten Pate, 92, passed away on Wednesday, December 7, 2022, at Dugan Memorial Home in West Point. She was born on July 19, 1930, in the Egypt Community to Samuel Dilworth and Myrtle Lawson Staten. She graduated school in Egypt, and she married John Thomas Newman in 1948 who later died in 1981. She married David Pate who also preceded her...
Judith Williams
Nov 28, 2022
Judith Lorraine Eubanks Williams, 76, passed away on Monday, November 28, 2022, at North. Mississippi Medical Center—Gilmore in Amory. She was born on November 14, 1946, in Lucedale, Mississippi to Houston and Ruth Ella Dungan Eubanks. Judith was a 1964 graduate of Aberdeen High School. She married Farrell Williams on May 11, 1974, and lived in Monroe County most of her life...
William Samuel Duncan, Jr.
Nov 20, 2022
William S. “WD” Duncan Sr., 66 passed away on Sunday, November 20, 2022 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Columbus. W.D. was born on June 25, 1956 in Amory to the late William S. Duncan, SR and Gloria Wherman Duncan. He was raised in Wren by his grandparents, CW and Leona Duncan, Henry August and Earnest Lee Wherman. W.D. attended Wren and Amory Schools...
Barbara Jenkins
Nov 12, 2022
Barbara Joyce Jenkins, 77, passed away on Saturday, November 12, 2022, at her home. A daughter of Dee Kay and Mary Evelyn Trimm Shackleford, she was born on November 17, 1944, in Shannon. Growing up in Shannon, she graduated Shannon High School and furthered her education, earning her LPN certificate from Itawamba Junior College in 1967. Beginning a long career, she was a...
James Dale "Jim" Galloway
Nov 12, 2022
James Dale “Jim” Galloway, 63, passed away at his residence on Saturday, November 12, 2022. He was born on October 14, 1959 in St. Louis to the late Jimmy and Linda Jones Galloway. James grew up in Flat River, MO and was a graduate of Central High School. He served in the United States Navy, sailing on the USS Saginaw. While on the...
Peggy Hodges
Nov 8, 2022
Peggy Jane Russ Hodges, 90, passed away on Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Columbus.
Peggy was born on September 28, 1932 in Needmore, Indiana to the late Orville and Laura Savannah Long Russ and then at an early age her family moved to Morgantown, Indiana where Peggy grew up and attended school.
After...
Mary Price
Oct 26, 2022
Mary Louise Tribble Price, 76, passed away on Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Columbus. She was born on March 4, 1946 in the Quincy Community to Jim Tribble and Lucille Thompson Stafford. She attended Quincy and Greenwood Springs School and graduated from Hatley High School. In 1995, she married Sonny Price. Mary worked as a seamstress in the area...
Mary Ann Easter
Oct 25, 2022
Mary Ann Jernigan Easter, 74, passed away on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at Diversicare Nursing and Rehab in Amory. She was born on May 29, 1948 in Monroe County to Marvin and Margaret Dodson Jernigan. Mary Ann grew up in Hatley and on October 13, 1964, she married Louis Easter. At a young age, she quit school to raise her sister, then raised...
A.L. Holloway
Oct 23, 2022
Just days short of his 70th birthday, AL went home to his Fathers house.
AL was born and raised in the Wren community. He had a fierce love and sense of protection for his friends and family. When his health declined nearly 17 years ago he moved in with his sister Fran and her husband Jimmy.
He led a...
Tina Hacker
Oct 21, 2022
Tina Ann Hacker, 55, passed away on Friday, October 21, 2022 at North Mississippi Medical Center—Gilmore in Amory. She was born in Texas on May 29, 1967 to Darrell and Barbara Ann Lindley Dykes. As a child, she moved with her family many times while her father was in the service. She did factory work most of her life and she enjoyed fishing...
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