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Brown Sullivan, 63, of Bruce, died Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at his home. He was born February 22, 1947 in Calhoun County, the son of John D. and Eunice Anglin Sullivan. He was retired after 20 years at Memphis Hardwood. He was a member of Parker Baptist Church and was a Gideon and a Mason. He enjoyed farming, cattle and caring for elderly. |
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Lana Grace Ware died on the day she was born, Saturday, May 8, 2010, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Ox-ford. She was the daughter of Justin and Brandy Nicole Starkey Ware. |
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Funeral services for James Leonard Drake Jr. “Wookiee”, a musician, 35, of Greenville, were Friday at Mortimer Funeral Home.?He died peacefully May 4, 2010 at University Medical Center, Jackson. Arrangements were Friday under the direction of Mortimer Fun-eral Home in Greenville. |
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Joe Thomas Bishop, 80, died April 30, 2010 at his home. He was a Korean War Veteran in the U.S. Marine Corps, and he retired after more than 40 years as a meat cutter with Robilio and Samo Big Star. He was a faithful member of Cedarview Baptist Church in Olive Branch. |
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Martha Sue Murphree, 72, of Bruce, died May 8, 2010 at her home. She was born April 27, 1938 in Bruce, the daughter of Adam and Lela Brown Murphree. She was a former employee of Wakefern Food Corporation for 30 years. She was a Baptist. |
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Yoshiko Nabors, 82, of Calhoun City, died Thursday, May 6, 2010 at Hospice Ministries in Ridgeland. She was born October 16, 1927 in Taiwan, the daughter of Seimo and Matsuru Asato Nasama. She was a homemaker and member of Duncan Hill Baptist Church. She enjoy attending church and working in her yard. She was loved by family and friends. She was the widow of Harley V. Nabors Jr. |
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Betty Bowling, 76, of Pittsboro, died Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at Calhoun Health Services in Calhoun City. She was born September 9, 1933 in Calhoun County, the daughter of Harvey Washington and Effie Lee McGill Bowling. She was a homemaker, and former employee of Glenn Slacks garment factory and Kellwood Co. |
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Angela Massey, 25, of Banner, died Sunday, May 2, 2010 at NMMC in Tupelo. She was born March 18, 1985 in Jackson. She was a 2003 graduate of Clinton High School. An RN student at ICC, she would have graduated May 13. She was a member of Utica Baptist Church. |
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James Edward “Jim” Keyser, Jr., 75, of Calhoun City, died Sunday, May 2, at St. Vincent’s East Hospital in Birmingham, AL after a lengthy illness. He was born on Governor’s Island, NY and as a child lived in Plattsburg, NY, Orlando, FL, and Jacksonville, FL. He earned a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from LSU in Baton Rouge, LA. From 1965 to 1975, he taught music at Northwest Mississippi Junior College, Senatobia, and was also chairman of the School’s Fine Arts Department. Jim served as Minister of Music, Youth and Senior Adults in several churches including First Baptist Church, Senatobia; Coldwater Baptist Church; First Baptist Church, Naples, FL; First Baptist Church, Calhoun City, and was most recently serving as Music Minister of First Baptist Church in Charleston. Jim was a member of the Mississippi Singing Churchmen, an Air Force veteran, Boy Scout leader, and past president of the Calhoun City Rotary Club. For many summers he taught at Mississippi Baptist Youth Music camps. He enjoyed opera, working on cameras, camping, and LSU sports. His greatest passion was missions. He went on many mission trips and led several mission teams to Mexico. |
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Olive Maxine Pender, 91, died Monday, May 3, 2010 at her daughter’s home. She was born November 24, 1919 in Burbank, Oh., the daughter of Carl and Ruth Collins Still. She owned a boarding home for the elderly. She was the widow of Roffie Pender. |
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