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Rosemary Coggin
Dec 23, 2023
Rosemary Morgan Coggin, 77, passed away on Saturday, December 23, 2023 at North Mississippi Medical Center Hospice in Tupelo. She was born in Monroe County on June 9, 1946 to Norbin “Goose” and Dorothy Wolforth Morgan. She was a 1963 graduate of Smithville High School and in her early years, she was a homemaker and teacher’s assistant and later worked as...
Odell Seymore
Dec 15, 2023
Odell Seymore, 90, passed away on Friday, December 15, 2023 at his home. A life-long resident of Monroe County, he was born on March 2, 1933 to Riley and Jesse Shackelford Seymore. Mr. Seymore was retired from Monroe County as a truck driver after 27 years. He enjoyed hunting and watching old westerns on TV. He was a member of Victory Baptist Church in...
Sharon Adams
Dec 15, 2023
Nettleton- Sharon (Roberts) Adams, 74, passed away on Friday, December 15, 2023 at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo. She was born on November 2, 1949 in Monroe County to parents Grady Roberts and Ruth (Mullins) Roberts. She was a lifelong resident of Nettleton. She was a retired school teacher with the Nettleton School District. She attended Nettleton Presbyterian Church. Sharon...
Grace Guin
Dec 14, 2023
Grace L. Guin, 83, passed away on Thursday, December 14, 2023, at NMMC-Gilmore in Amory. She was born on March 5, 1940, in Tuscumbia, AL to Tom Neal and Mary Nell Reaves Riner. Grace grew up in Aberdeen and attended Aberdeen schools. In 1955, she married the love of her life, Hubert Guin, and would spend the next 63 years as a devoted...
Bettye Walters
Nov 29, 2023
Bettye Maud Vowell Walters passed away in the early morning hours of November 29, 2023, at the age of 69. She was predeceased by her mother, Mary Pearl Walters, her father James C. Walters, and her brother Carl Walters, Jr. She leaves surviving her a niece Chasity Cherubin of Columbia, South Carolina and nephew, C.W. Walters of Aberdeen, Mississippi. She...
Aston Simpson
Nov 28, 2023
Aberdeen, MS – Elizabeth Aston Simpson, 31, ascended to Heaven on Tuesday, November 28, 2023. She was the only daughter of Cynthia “Cindy” West Simpson of Plano, TX, and Dr. Charles Lawson Simpson, West Point, MS. She is also survived by her dear Mama Judi who was with her on the day she was born and the day she found...
Donald Joe Hall
Nov 23, 2023
Donald Joe Hall, 71, of Nettleton, MS passed away on Thursday, November 23, 2023 at the NMMC in Tupelo, MS after an extended illness. He was born on March 26, 1952 to the late Marvin "Pete" and Sula Hall of Nettleton. He was the 9th of 10 children, Joe was the son of a sharecropper and picked cotton alongside his...
Roy Gillentine
Nov 12, 2023
Roy Allen Gillentine, 54, passed away on Sunday, November 12, 2023 at his home. He was born on December 5, 1968 to James Roy and Beth Gillentine. He lived most of his life in Okolona, but had resided in Plantersville the last several years. Roy enjoyed spending time with the people closest to him and his dog. He also loved to...
Danny Hester
Nov 8, 2023
Danny Hester, 67, passed away on Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Born on June 30, 1956 in Okolona, he was a son to Carl Winford and Rena Bell Springer Hester. He worked in the furniture industry for many years before becoming disabled and he was certified in small engine repair. On April 13, 2007 he married the...
Betty Strickland
Nov 4, 2023
Betty Thomas Hill Strickland, 85, passed away on Saturday, November 4, 2023, at Trinity Healthcare in Columbus. Born on April 5, 1938, in Meridian, MS, she was a daughter to Dawson Lee and Willie Sellers Thomas. Betty graduated high school in Meridian, and she was a bank teller for many years prior to her retirement. A member of Longview Point Baptist Church...
Jimmy Wayne Harlow
Oct 31, 2023
Nettleton- Jimmy Wayne Harlow, 75, passed away on October 31, 2023 at his residence in Nettleton. He was born in Birmingham, AL on February 22, 1948 to his father Woodrow "Bo" Harlow and his mother Ernie (Randolph) Harlow. He was married to Jacquie Finley Harlow for 56 years. He was a faithful member of Nettleton First Baptist Church. He retired...
Justin Kennedy
Oct 27, 2023
Justin Kennedy, 35 of Canton, MS went home to his Heavenly Father on October 27, 2023 in Canton. Justin was born in Amory on May 9, 1988 to Mike and Kay Kennedy. He was a graduate of Hamilton High School, Class of 2006. Justin attended East Mississippi Community College and graduated in 2008, earning a degree in computer networking. He...
Angela Anderson
Oct 25, 2023
Hamilton- Angela (Self) Anderson, 50, passed away on Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at BMH-Golden Triangle -Columbus. She was born on November 18, 1972 in Lowndes County to parents Wanza Warren Self and Sharon (Brewer) Self. She lived most of her life in Monroe County. Angela was an avid reader, she enjoyed watching television, taking care of her animals and spending...
Hunter Dahlem
Oct 22, 2023
Hunter Douglas Dahlem, 32, passed away on Sunday, October 22, 2023, in Amory. Hunter was born on November 4, 1990, in Amory to Doug Dahlem and Tammy Logan Dahlem. In his early years, he lived in Lake Providence, LA and currently resided in the Hamilton and Bartahatchie Communities. He was a 2009 graduate of Hamilton High School where he played baseball, football,...
Paul Wages
Oct 21, 2023
Paul Littleton Wages, 88, of Aberdeen MS died Saturday morning October 21, 2023 at the home of his son James surrounded by family. Paul had been sick on and off this year and in and out of the hospital several times. He was tired and missed his bride, Della, of 57 years who preceded him in death. Paul was the...
Wayne Barnes
Oct 18, 2023
Allen Wayne Barnes, 64, passed away at his residence in Nettleton on Wednesday, October 18, 2023. He was born in Tupelo on May 17, 1959 to the late Orestus and Valeria Wealley Barnes. Wayne grew up in Nettleton and worked a number of years doing woodwork and building cabinets. Being raised in a family of 11, Wayne enjoyed time spent...
Ann Wood
Oct 14, 2023
Aberdeen- Barbara Ann Andrews Wood, 87, completed her earthly journey on October 14, 2023 during her favorite season of the year in Hot Springs, AR. She was born on February 25, 1936 to Jeff and Mary Lou Andrews in Trenton, TN. Ann grew up in Jackson, TN, graduated from Jackson High School and attended Mississippi State College for Women in...
James "Jim" Nolen
Oct 7, 2023
James (Jim) Doyle Nolen 76 of Hamilton, MS passed away Saturday, October 7th at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, MS; he was born February 5, 1947 to the late James W. Nolen and Mildred Frances Burkes Nolen in Aberdeen Mississippi.
Mr. Nolen is survived by his wife of 54 years, Marie Eileen Carter Nolen of Hamilton; children Anita...
Judy Warren
Oct 7, 2023
Jewel Faye Pate Warren, 64, passed away on Saturday, October 7, 2023 at her home surrounded by her loved ones. Known as “Judy” or “JuJu,” to many, she was born on September 30, 1959 to Dallas and Irma Patterson Pate. She was a lifelong resident of Nettleton and she was married to the love of her life, Donald Warren for the past...
Dr. Banks Shepherd
Sep 27, 2023
Thomas Banks Shepherd, Jr.
August 6, 1934 — September 27, 2023
Aberdeen
Dr. Thomas Banks Shepherd, Jr., 89, of Aberdeen, MS died on September 27, 2023 at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo, MS after a brief illness.
He was born on August 6, 1934 in Lexington, MS, to parents Thomas Banks Shepherd and Grace Ashley Shepherd.
Banks graduated from Lexington...
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