Joseph Dean Cole Sr. died Sunday, March 3, 2002, at River Region Medical Center. He was 67.

Born in Redwood, Mr. Cole was a graduate of Redwood High School. He was a self-employed contractor. He was a member of First Baptist Church.

He was preceded in death by a son, William Russell Cole; a daughter, Linda Katherine Harrison; his parents, Russell Graham and Addie Hackler Cole; and a brother, James Russell Cole.

He is survived by his wife, Lois Leola Phelps Cole of Vicksburg; two sons, Joseph Dean Cole Jr. and Steven Allan Cole, both of Vicksburg; a daughter, Addie Jane Barnett of Brandon; two brothers, Zane Grey Cole of Prescott, Ark., and John Scott Cole-Hazel of Green, Ala.; two sisters, Catherine Bufkin and Isabel Smith, both of Vicksburg; 10 grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 11 a.m., Wednesday at Glenwood Funeral Home with Dr. John G. McCall officiating. Burial will follow at Hackler Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 5 until 8 tonight at the funeral home.

Pallbearers will be Rickey Hancock, Anthony Hancock, Bobby Dean Culbertson, Robert Mark Culbertson, Jamie Cole, Keith Keen, Joe Redditt and Robert Griffin.

Honorary pallbearers will be Richard Hancock, Charles Thomas, Elbert Redditt, Robert King, Kenneth Ricks, Joe Durst, Leon Henry, Sherwood Lyons Sr., J.W. Hearn, Fred Owens, Dr. Gerhand Mundingey Jr., Dr. Yosshinobu Namihara, Dr. Chester W. Masterson and Dr. Lamar Weems

Harold Dunn Alexander. died May 10, 2005. He was 69.

Born in Redwood, Harold attended Redwood High School.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert Harold and Zella Ruth Alexander.

He is survived by two sons, Keith and Kelly Alexander, both of Vicksburg; 3 grandchildren; one brother, Robert Clyde Alexander and three sisters, Margaret Griffith and Martha Alexander, both of Oak Ridge, MS and Ann Windham of Monroe, LA. He is buried in Green Acres Memorial Park.

Clement O. Hearn died at his home, April 5, 1992. He was 57.

Mr. Hearn was born in Warren County and was a graduate of Redwood High School. He was employed with Cedar Chemical Company and a former employee of Mississippi Valley Portland Cement Company.

He was a veteran, serving in the Army, and a member of the Bovina Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Mildred Corbin Hearn of Vicksburg; a daughter, Ami Hearn Chase of Lexington KY., father, Clifford Hearn of Vicksburg; a brother, Caswell Hearn of Houston, Texas; and numerous other relatives including Donnie Lewis of Vicksburg..

He was preceded in death by mother, Mamie M. Hearn and a sister, Laverne Keen.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Fisher-Riles Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. James Busby, pastor of Bovina Baptist Church officiating. Burial will follow at Green Acres Memorial Park. Visitation will be 5-8 tonight.

Memorials may be made to the Baptist Children’s Village at P. O. Box 27, Clinton, 39060-0027

Pallbearers will be his cousins, O’Neal Roberts, Benjamin Hearn, Wilford Cockrell, Jack Hearn Jr., Ordell Douglas, Alfred Hearn, Wayne Hearn, and James Hearn.

Honorary pallbearers will be Bill Alexander, S. T. Barnes, Alonzo Dunn, Glen Carraway, Tom Embry, Robert Smith, Roy Stanley, Allen Ohrt, Jim Vines and employees of Cedar Chemical Company.

Delbert “Todd” Huskey died Tuesday September 14, 1993. He was 58.

Mr. Huskey was native of Caraway, Ark. He had lived in Vicksburg for most of his life. He was veteran of the Army and was an instructor at Hinds Vo-Tech Center.

He was preceded in death by his father, Homer L. Huskey.

He was a member of the Bovina Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Joyce Ann Huskey of Vicksburg; five sons, Perry, Douglas L., William Todd, Barney and Jessy, all of Vicksburg; his mother, Callie Huskey of Vicksburg; one sister, Ann Lott of Clinton; four brothers, Robert “Bob” Huskey of Kalamazoo, MI, Gerald Huskey of Utica, Jimmy D. Huskey of Kosciusko and Jerry Huskey of Jackson; seven grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Glenwood Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. James Busby and Rev Chaz Bosarge officiating. Burial will follow at Green Acres Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 4-8 pm Thursday.

Pallbearers will be Joe Loviza, Jimmy Lee, John Lee, Michael Lee, Chuck Snyder, Darrel Hale, Albert Hossley and Calvin Ashley.

Honorary pallbearers will be Victor Lee, Floyd Phelps, Johnny Griffin, Phares Griffin, A. L. Tanner, Doug Tanner, Harry Cockrell, Guy Creekmore, Joey Cooper, and Chuck Gardner.

Glenwood Funeral Home is charge of arrangements.

Longview, Texas—Allen Earl Martin of Longview, Texas, formerly of Vicksburg, died Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1993. died at his home, April 5, 1992. He was 56.

Mr. Martin was born in Thomasville, Alabama. He had lived in Longview for the past 18 years. He was director of services at LeTourneau University and was a member of Mobberly Baptist Church. He was also an Army veteran of the Korean War, (a paratrooper).

He was preceded in death by his parents, Judson Eugene and Mary Peters Martin, and a brother, Eugene Martin.

Survivors include his wife, Dimple Martin of Longview; two sons, Allen Earl Martin, Jr. of Baton Rouge and Damon Martin of Alamosa, Colorado; two brothers, Lamar Martin of Lakeland, FL and Pete Martin of Baton Rouge, two sisters, Louise Williams of Plaquemine, LA and Martha Parker of Vicksburg; two grandchildren, Jessica Rae Martin and Lauren Olive Martin; one daughter-in-law, Konnie Martin of Alamosa and a number of nieces and nephews..

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Mobberly Baptist Church with Dr. Laney Johnson and Dr. Alvin O. Austin officiating. Burial will follow at Memory Park Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 6-8 tonight at the funeral home chapel.

Memorials may be made to the Allen Earl Martin Scholarship Fund at LeTourneau University.

Funeral services will be held at the Fisher Funeral Chapel Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock for Miss Robbie Jean Gilliland, 18-year-old Redwood High School senior who died yesterday of injuries received in an automobile accident eight days earlier.

Members of her class at Redwood will serve as pallbearers and burial will be in the City Cemetery.

Miss Glliland, who was a senior and high school cheerleader, was fatally injured when a pickup truck in which she and two other Redwood students were riding left the highway and overturned. The accident occurred on Saturday night, September 26 on Highway 61 north of the Yazoo River bridge, and Miss Gilliland never regained consciousness. Slightly injured in the accident were James C. Hintson and Cecil Fonville.

Born in Indianola, Miss Gilliland lived there until about a year ago when her family moved to Valley Park. She leaves her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Elmer Gilliland of Valley Park; four sisters, Miss Jacqueline Gilliland of Jackson, Miss Mattie Sue Gilliland of Valley Park; Mrs. W. T. Hancock of Indianola, and Mrs. Hale Norwood of Clarksdale; three brothers, James, Oscar and Bobby Gilliland, all of Valley Park.

The Reverend Jack Butler, pastor of the Valley Park Baptist Church will officiate, assisted by the Rev. L. L. Nicholson, a former pastor, the Rev. Grady Guntharp and the Rev. L. P. Anders, the latter pastor of Gibson Memorial Methodist Church.

Burial will be in City Cemetery. Pallbearers, six members of the Redwood Senior Class will be John Robert Griffin, Earl Martin, Wilson Brent, Melvin Oakes, Todd Huskey and Claudius Bourgoyne.

Georgia Ann Burton Downs, 72, died Tuesday, July 21, 2009 in Jackson. Visitation services were held from 9:00-11:00 am Saturday, July 25, 2009 at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home in Pearl. Funeral services followed at 11 am in the funeral home chapel. Graveside services were held at 2:00pm at Green Acres Memorial Park in Vicksburg.

Ms. Downs retired at the age of 70 from Bell South after 51 years of dedicated service.

Survivors include daughter Cynthia J. Fearon; son J.B. Downs; sister Shirley Cauthen; brothers Everett Burton, John Burton and Robert Burton; 3 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.

Jean Cogan Hambright died Sunday at Methodist Medical Center in Jackson. She was 58. Mrs. Hambright was a lifelong resident of Vicksburg and daughter of the late Robert W. Cogan Jr. and Louise Bliss Cogan.

She was employed as a meat wrapper for County Market Food Store for many years and was a member of Wilderness Missionary Baptist Church.

She is survived by her husband Wiley E. Hambright, one son, Wiley G. Hambright, two daughters, Beverly H. Clark and Donna H. Henson all of Vicksburg: two brothers, Bob Cogan of Houston, TX and Bill Cogan of Vicksburg: two sisters Faye Huskey and Mary Murray Adams, both of Vicksburg; and six grandchildren.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Wilderness M. B. Church with the Rev. Ashford Conrad, pastor, officiating. Burial will be at Green Acres Memorial Park with Fisher-Riles Funeral Home in charge. Visitation will be from 5 until 8 tonight at the funeral home.

Pallbearers will be Gary Adams, David Murray, Daniel Murray, John Pelligren, Wiley P Tedder and Estrell “Red” Hambright.

Honorary pallbearers will be deacons of Wilderness M. B. Church. Memorials may be made to Wilderness M. B. Church, 5415 Gibson Road, Vicksburg, MS, 39180, or to The American Cancer Society, 1380 Livingston Lane, Jackson, MS, 39213.

The Reverend Wilson Hemingway Brent died peacefully on June 8, 2010, at his home in Cary, North Carolina. He was a Methodist minister, a marriage and family counselor, and a college staff member who in his long and distinguished career served congregations, clients, and students in Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, and North Carolina.

Wilson was born on March 29, 1936, in Vicksburg, Mississippi, the youngest of eight children born to Ludye Hemingway Brent and Jesse Emanual Brent. (Ernest Hemingway was a distant cousin. At right is the Boy Scout card of Wilson's maternal grandfather who was a Committeman in the Scouts.) Wilson's father was a riverboat pilot. His siblings were James Wilson (1908-1941)., Charlton Gilles (1910-1972), Jesse Edwin (1912-1982), George C., Edith (Robbins)(1920-2001), Catherine "Kitty" Brent (Lentz) (1917-2011). Since his nearest sibling was born nineteen years earlier, Wilson felt like an only child. Wilson was raised through his high school years in Redwood, MS, a rural community 12 miles north of Vicksburg, and attended Hinds Junior College and Mississippi College, majoring in mathematics. After he graduated, he taught math for one year at Peeples Junior High School in Jackson, MS. Then he heard the call to ministry and enrolled at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, where he earned an M.Div. degree. His ordination as an elder in the Methodist Church followed within three years. He subsequently did graduate study in the sociology of religion at Emory University in Atlanta and earned an M.A. in Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, CA.

Besides his pastoral and counseling positions, he served for nine years on the staff of the School of Church Careers at Centenary College in Shreveport, LA., providing program leadership and counseling services. His students from that period remembered him fondly for years after they graduated and continued to be a source of joy to him for the rest of his life. The photo at right is from the 1984 Centenary College yearbook.

Wilson married Charlotte Treadway of Jackson, MS, with whom he had one child, Claudia Rebecca. Charlotte also became an ordained Methodist minister and served her own churches in Louisiana, and she also co-presented workshops with Wilson on marriage enrichment and on death and grief. Their marriage lasted for 45 years until her death parted them in 2000. Wilson temporarily filled her position at the church she was serving in Welsh, LA, and served there until a permanent replacement was appointed. Not long afterwards he moved to Cary, NC, to be near his daughter and son-in-law.

He joined the congregation of St. Francis United Methodist Church in Cary, did some occasional preaching there, and voluntarily took the position of visitation ministry associate which he maintained until he became ill. At St. Francis he met Gerry Weiss and married her in 2002, and with her led several GriefShare workshops in the church.

While that narrative sounds like a fairly ordinary life journey for one who follows the path of ministry, Wilson Brent was anything but ordinary. He grew up deep in the rural South, immersed in a culture of religious and racial prejudice, and yet came to develop a deeply rooted conviction in the fundamental role of interfaith and interracial cooperation in the Christian faith. He carried this conviction into the rural southern churches he served in the 1960s and 1970s and preached it, sometimes in the face of intense hostility from some of his congregants. He developed a plan for prison ministry for the Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist Church and took part in its implementation; was actively involved in hospital ministry for many years; participated in the development of lay witness missions and a variety of educational programs in the Mississippi and Louisiana Conferences; and was part of a church task force promoting AIDS education in the 1980s.

Wilson’s Christian faith and adherence to his principles were strong and unshakeable, and at the same time he was unfailingly kind, gentle, funny, and infinitely generous of spirit. He wrote poetry throughout his adult life, and in 2003 published a volume of his poetry entitled Life Well Lived, a phrase that characterizes his own life perfectly. Serving others in death as he did in life, he donated his body to the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

Wilson is survived by his wife Gerry, her three daughters and son and their spouses Laura and Hamilton LaForge, Sue and James Brewer, Shelly Weiss, and Todd and Dawn Weiss; his daughter Rebecca Brent and her husband Richard Felder; his eight grandchildren Wade, Nicole, Jessica, Alex, Todd Jr., Kenneth, Elena, and Gary; his seven great-grandchildren Mary, Benjamin, Jacob, Shannon, Jonathan, James, and Cecelia; his sister Catherine; and many nieces and nephews and their offspring.

A memorial service celebrating Wilson’s life will be held at 3:00 p.m. Monday, June 14, 2010, at St. Francis United Methodist Church on Kildaire Farm Rd. near Penny Rd. in Cary, with a reception following the service. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in memory of Wilson H. Brent to the Charlotte Brent Memorial Scholarship Fund (United Methodist Foundation of Louisiana, 8337 Jefferson Highway, Baton Rouge, LA 70809), the St. Francis United Methodist Church (2965 Kildaire Farm Rd., Cary, NC 27518), or the Cary Page Rotary Club (P.O. Box 836, Cary, NC 27512).

Eulogy for Wilson H. Brent
Delivered by Rebecca Brent (daughter) at the Memorial Service St. Francis United Methodist Church, Cary, NC
Monday, June 14, 2010

The poem Gary read beautifully sums up impressions of my father’s early years in rural Mississippi. I came on the scene a little over a year after he had married my mother, Charlotte, when he was 20 years old, going to school full time and driving a school bus to make ends meet. I was quite the night owl and he loved to tell about trying to get me to sleep by gently holding my eyelids shut in hopes that I’d drift off. After graduating from college, he felt the call to preach. My mother, not having signed on for the life of a preacher’s wife, asked him to wait a year during which he taught junior high school math. If anything would send you directly into God’s work, it’s trying to teach remedial math to a room full of 13 year olds. He served a small church outside of Jackson with a wood-burning stove that he occasionally had to stop his sermons to stoke!

After that challenging year, he packed up his wife and three-year-old and headed to Wilmore Kentucky and Asbury Seminary. That was three years of intense growth and lots of snow, and surviving changing a light bulb on our back porch while standing ankle deep in water, and having a car plunge down a steep hill from the parking lot behind our home and land in the bedroom. He also served a church in Appalachia and routinely picked up young people for Methodist Youth Fellowship. He was quite proud of once getting nine young folks into our car…a Volkswagon beetle! That must be some kind of record!

We all returned to Mississippi where my Dad served churches in Kingston, Natchez, and Satartia. Remember this was the 1960’s when tensions were high as the civil rights movement was in full swing. Dad strongly believed in racial equality and interfaith communication and cooperation, a conviction he came to when in seminary with classmates from around the world. He stood up for what he believed in the face of hostility from many of his parishioners and at considerable personal risk.

I didn’t realize any of this until much later, of course. To me he was just Daddy, who tucked me in each night with songs and long talks, and in whose love I was always certain. He had a spirit of fun and called each move an adventure. He could do a mean Elvis impersonation of “Hound Dog” complete with shaking legs and twitching hips that always made me laugh.
When I was 12, we moved to Atlanta where my Dad studied sociology of religion at Emory and was associate pastor in a large church. It was on a youth retreat there that the boys in his cabin put a frog in his pillow as a prank and his collecting of frogs began. After three years, we came back to Mississippi to churches in Bonita, Jackson, Biloxi and Pearl. During this period, Dad developed plans for a prison ministry for the Mississippi Conference and took part in its implementation, participated in the development of Lay Witness Missions, and later was part of a task force promoting AIDS education. In every church he served, Dad had a tremendous impact on the lives of his people, especially with his ministry to them in times of crisis—deaths, sickness, divorce. He started to feel that perhaps he could serve better in that capacity, as a counselor, than in regular pastoral ministry.

He and my mom set off in the summer of 1978 to California to a marriage and family therapy program he had been accepted to with no job, no place to live, and an old Ford Pinto held together with baling wire to make the cross-country journey—life was an adventure, remember! Somehow they made it, and he experienced a coming into his own. He began to write free verse poetry after years of writing constricted haiku; he discovered the joy of wine and hot tubs; and in counseling he found a calling that he would continue for the rest of his life.

The work he considered his most rewarding was a nine-year period in the School of Church Careers at Centenary College in Shreveport. He worked with young people as a spiritual advisor, mentor and pastor during their four years in college. Many of those students went on to become ministers, deacons, and church musicians—a fact of which he was most proud. When he left the college, the students planted a tree in his honor…a fitting tribute since his entire life was all about growth. In fact, the tree was one of the things he showed Gerry when he took her back to Louisiana to meet his colleagues and friends, and he was quite proud that it endured and had grown taller than the building.

When my mother felt the call to ministry later in life, Dad supported her through a master’s degree in Christian education, diaconal ministry, seminary and ordination as an elder. He followed her to two appointments in southern Louisiana and was a loving caretaker as she battled liver disease. After her death in 2000, he finished out her appointment because he thought the congregation would benefit from having time to grieve her loss before a new minister came in. A little over a week after her death, Dad and I first visited St. Francis where we were warmly welcomed and Dad received one of those legendary Rick Clayton hugs, after which he declared “THIS will be my church.” He moved to Cary in 2001, declaring that he was sure he’d never marry again and would possibly join a monastery. Then he met Gerry.

He came to tell my husband and me about her shortly after they met at Prime Timers perhaps to be sure we were okay with his calling her. Right after he left our house, we turned to each other and said, “Well, so much for the monastery!” They married in 2002 and had a wonderful life together, traveling and relishing the company of friends, but also continuing to help each other to grow and expand their worlds and experiences. From the first days, Dad talked about how warm and open Gerry’s family was to him and he loved the laughter and fun. He embraced Wade, Nicole, Jessica, Alex and TJ as his own grandchildren along with Rich’s and my grandkids Mary, Ben, Jacob, Shannon, Johnny, James, and Cecelia, and lovingly attended recitals, concerts, plays, and birthday parties, showering the next generation with his love, hugs, and support. Continuing his commitment and active participation for many years in Rotary International, he joined the Cary Page Club. Shortly before his death, he was honored with a Paul Harris Fellow medal. He became more and more involved in the church here, facilitating groups with Gerry on grief, leading services including an appearance of Boxcar Willie, his clown persona, visiting, mentoring, and even singing in the choir for a brief time. He loved the people of St. Francis, the wonderful music and dramatic productions, and its ministers. This truly was HIS church home.

Even when dying, Dad continued to give service and maintained a loving spirit and faith. He made a point to speak with many people in his life to give them (and him) closure. He took communion and studied the lectionary. He said over and over, “God is with us.”
I’d like to share one final story. One of Dad’s nieces, April, wrote me a couple of days ago reporting about the musings of her daughter Luci, age 5. She wrote, “The day of and the day after Uncle Wilson's passing, Luci thought about Uncle Wilson a lot. She thought about heaven a lot and what it must be like and she asked, just to make sure, if Uncle Wilson knew Jesus. She later proclaimed, with a broad smile, that she could imagine Uncle Wilson sharing a ‘ginormous’ piece of chocolate with Jesus. How wonderful it is when we look on this through the eyes of a child. Uncle Wilson is indeed with His Savior.”

While I will miss my Dad, I know that he is at peace now. And I take great comfort knowing that he’ll live on in Luci, in each of us, and in all the lives he touched.

Comments on Wilson Brent
by Gerry Weiss Brent, Wife
at the Memorial Service
St. Francis United Methodist Church, Cary, NC
Monday, June 14, 2010

I knew Wilson 8 years and 8 plus months of his 74 years of life.

WE MET IN OUR GOLDEN YEARS
-we both had been married
-raised our children
-had our careers
-had grieved the death of our spouses
-were in our retirement
-we were soul mates as well as playmates
-we played with our families, friends and in our community
-we had a good, fun and fulfilling life together

FAMILY
-God blessed us with the love of each others family
-Wilson's love for Rebecca was expressed in his face with delight,
whenever he saw her
-he loved Rich like a son
-he opened his heart and loved my children and their families completely
-the grandchildren/great-grandchildren brought Wilson joy seeing them
grow and develop their unique individual personalities

WILSON
-most accepting person I have ever known, as he often told me “they have
their own good reason”
-he was affirming – he would say “you have within you everything that you
need”
-when he smiled at you with the twinkle in his eyes- you knew you were
valued
-his hug was an embrace
-intuitively he knew what to say and do
-he was compassionate, sensitive and gentle

WILSON HAD A LOVE FOR LIFE
-ready to do it all
-go new places
-try new things
-meet new people
-he loved learning and growing

HE HAD A WONDERFUL SENSE OF HUMOR
-it was quiet and easy to miss unless he was dressed in costume
proposed to me, in a restaurant, with my family, dressed as the
silent clown, Box Car Willie, he mimed the proposal
-he saw a tall green leprechaun hat when we were in New Orleans. Wilson
bought it for Fat Tuesday celebration at church and to wear for
Tricks or Treating at Halloween
-neighbors still laugh when they talk about Wilson coming to a Halloween
Party dressed in a grass skirt, coconut bra and blonde wig

I SAW COURAGE IN HIS
-move to Cary for retirement
-taking the risk of getting married again
-his health issues
-heart bi-pass surgery
-eye surgery
-prostrate cancer
-surgery for fluid around his lung
-a-fib
-ablation procedure
-his esophagus quitting
-and coming home from the hospital with hospice care
During these times, Wilson called on God, overcame his fears and embraced life again– even in his dying.

GRIEVING
-The last four months we have been grieving together the-
-loss of his health
-loss of our life together
-loss of family times together
-loss of travel
-loss of being active in our community
-loss of all our plans and dreams
You made a difference in our grieving -

THANK YOU
YOU WERE THERE FOR US
-in your prayers and love
-your visits
-the wheel chair walks
-all the music
-your emails and phone calls
-your listening, listening, listening
-your cards- Wilson's received cards every day but one for 4 months. That
one day he reread all the cards he had received and commented “I am
amazed at all the love I feel.”
YOU WERE THERE FOR US
-honoring Wilson with the Rotary's – Paul Harris Award
-making and giving him prayer quilts
-celebrating communion with us
-anointing us with oil
-dedicating the new oil holders in honor of Wilson
-giving him gentle and efficient care as caregivers
YOU WERE THERE FOR US
-in your affirmation of Wilson's poems
-celebrating his birthday
-doing energy work
-video taping this service
-video taping Wilson's history
-sharing your photos
-drawing and coloring pictures for him
-planning, preparing and serving the meal today after this service of
celebration
You touched us as the hands of God, loving us on this journey.
Thank you from both of us.

ETERNITY
On June 8th, around 8:30AM. Debra and Sherry, his faithful caregivers, and I were gathered around Wilson's bed sharing our love with him as he peacefully took his last breath

He was free to go to his eternal home.

Wilson's “Life Well Lived” continues in eternity with his Lord God Almighty!

SHALOM

COLUMBIA - Emma Mae Livingston Sharp, 72 of Columbia, SC, wife of the late MAJ James L. Sharp, USA, died peacefully the morning of November 8, 2008, at the Hospice Center of Charleston with the company of her daughter and son. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral service at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, November 10, 2008, at Dunbar Funeral Home, 3926 Devine Street. Burial will follow in Elmwood Cemetery, to be followed by a reception at North Trenholm Baptist Church. Visitation will be et the funeral home Sunday, November 9, from 3:00 until 6:00 p.m.

Mrs. Sharp was born April 5, 1936, In Newellton, LA, daughter of the late Burley Suber and Annle Mae Livingston. She was a 1950 graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi and received a master's degree in Special Education from the University of South Carolina in 1974. She was a teacher for Richland County School District 2 from 1975 until her retirement in 1998 and taught at Dent Middle School and Richland Northeast High School In Columbia.

A 1954 graduate of Moorhead High School In Moorhead, MS, she was a member of the National Honor Society and the cheerleading squad and was the school's 1954 Homecoming Queen. Mrs. Sharp met her future husband while she was a student at Sunflower Junior College where she was e member of the cheerleading squad and sang with the Chorallers.

Alter graduating from the University of Southern Mississippi with a degree in elementary education, she began her career as a third grade teacher at E.M. Boyd Elementary School In Greenville, MS. When her husband's military career led them to locations in the United States and Germany, Mrs. Sharp provided a loving and cheerful home as they raised their three children. Mrs. Sharp ls remembered by friends and family for her love of children, her lively sense of humor and for the kindness and patience that sprang from her generous spirit. She devised many inventive games for her children and grandchildren and enjoyed, playing the piano, working crossword puzzles and visiting with family and friends. In recent years, she joined the Joyful Seekers Sunday School Class of North Trenholm Baptist Church and enjoyed providing pre-game meals for the Richland Northeast High School football players at the church.

Affectionately known as Mlml throughout her life, she was preceded In death by her husband, her parents and her older brother Lowell Livingston. She ls survived by her daughter, Leslie Sharp of Charleston, SC; her sons, Lt. Col Kenneth Sharp, USAF (Ret) and wife Paula of Niceville, FL, and LTC James L. Sharp, USA, and wife Wendy of Ft. Mlll, SC.

Also surviving are six grandchildren: Alex Sharp, Mark Sharp, Melissa Sharp, Christin Sharp, Forrest Sharp, and Andrew Sharp, and two sisters: Mrs. Vaida Brown of Shalimar, FL and Mrs. LaCeIe Bowen of Jackson, MS.

The family would like to thank the caring, professional staff of Hospice of Charleston for their support In Miml's final days. In Iieu of flowers, please send memorial donations to Hospice of Charleston Foundation, 676 Wando Park Blvd., Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464 or North Trenholm Baptist Church, 6515 North Trenholm Road, Columbia, SC 29206.

Darrell “Beth” Fuller Pierson started her life in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Her parents were Albert (1903-) and Susie (1903-) Fuller. Albert was a farmer. Darrell was the youngest of four children, Albert, Jr. Hilton Lamar, Audrey and Darrell. She was survived by her sister Audrey Cummings. After graduation from Redwood High School, Beth enlisted in the US Army and served for nearly 16 years. She met her husband, Tom, in Germany. They were married for 50 years and raised four children, Robert, Rita, Renee and Ronald. Beth’s greatest joy was her six grandchildren, Tanya, John, Melissa, Nathan, Sherry and Nicholas.

Beth leaves behind friends and family, colleagues and bowling partners, gardens, and flowers and memories of a life lived well. She joins her husband, family and friends in a better place, for the Lord has prepared a room for her. She is free of pain and able to plant flowers and cook and dance with beloved husband. Beth lovingly cared for Tom during his illness with Parkinson‘s disease. Ironically she developed the same disease following Tom’s death.

Beth touched the lives of many and she will live on in the hearts, minds and souls of those who met her. A service was held to celebrate her life at Liberty Grove United Methodist Church, Burtonsville, MD, on June 23, 2013.

VICKSBURG — the funeral service for Mable Bliss Tharrington, 76, will be at 11 a.m. today, June 30 at Glenwood Funeral Home with visitation starting at 10 a.m. Interment will be in Greenlawn Gardens Cemetery. Mrs. Tharrington died June 28 at her daughter's home.

She was born in Vicksburg and lived in Vicksburg for most of her life. She moved to Hernando for fourteen years and returned to Vicksburg in 2001. She was Baptist. She is preceded in death by her husband Clecy D. Tharrington, eight sisters, five brothers and her daughter Teresa Ann Prewitt. She leaves daughters Netta Prewitt Shingler of Angleton, Texas, Lori Prewitt Harris of Vicksburg and Lisa Sullivan Sanders of Vicksburg; her son Herbert D. Prewitt of Vicksburg; her sister Ruby Kruger of Vicksburg; her brother Frank Bliss of Edwards; 10 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.

Billy "Bippy" Earl Harrison 72, died Thursday, October 11, 2007 at Magee General Hospital. Services are 2 p.m. Monday, October 15, 2007 in the chapel at Lakewood Funeral Home. Visitation is from 2-4 p.m. today and after 1 p.m. Monday. Burial will follow in Lakewood Memorial Park.

Billy was born in Redwood on December 12, 1934 to the late Joe Harrison and Gracie Lane Harrison.
In 1963, Billy moved to Clinton. In 1999, he moved to Magee where he resided until his death. He was a member of Parkway Baptist Church.

A longtime employee of Fountain Electric/Packard Electric, Billy retired as a Sheet Metal Mechanic after 20+ years of service.
Billy was a member of the Moose Lodge. He spent much of his free time square dancing and being a square dance caller. He had a sense of humor that gave him a reputation as a big cut-up. He also enjoyed spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren who referred to him as "Bippy". He was loved greatly and will be missed by all who knew him.
His parents and his wife of 48 years Joyce Maxine Harrison precede him in death.

Survivors include: his sons, Ricky Harrison and his wife, Debbie of Fayetteville, Ga. and Randy Harrison of Magee; and his daughters, Babs McAlpin and her husband, Rodney of Byram and Ramona Gordy and her husband, Skeeter of Douglasville, Ga.; ten grandchildren and six great-grandchildren and one on the way; and his precious dog "Sugar."

Published in the Clarion Ledger on 10/14/2007.

James Earl attended Redwood High School in 1945 and 1946. He was in third and fourth grade. If this is the correct James, then he is buried in Woodlawn Park Cemetery, Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi.

Earl Escar Sample died on August 25, 2006, in Pascagoula, Mississippi in Singing River Hospital.
Escar was born in Angola, Sharkey, Mississippi on February 1, 1935, to Earl Escar and Lois Morgan Sample.

He attend Redwood School in 1945.

He was a veteran of the United States Army and retired as an assistant chief of the Pascagoula Fire Department in 1985 after 28 years in service.

He is preceded in death by his parents, and a brother, Murle Samples.

He is survived by his wife of 48 years Eleanor Gertrude Lewelling Samples; two sons, Michael David Samples and his wife Wendy and Kelly Lyndon Samples all of Pascagoula; two brothers, William Samples* of Gulfport, MS. and James Samples of Long Beach, MS.; two sisters, Doris Tolar of Rolling Fork, MS. and Marie Stockstill Gonzalas of Gulfport, MS; six grandchildren, Adrianne, Arinne, Hayden, Justin Lyndon, Kyle and Kayla and numerous other relatives and friends.

Visitation will be Sunday, August 27, 2006, from 6:00-8:00pm at O’Bryant-O’Keefe Funeral Home in Pascagoula.

Funeral Service will be Monday, August 28, 2006, at 10:00 am in the funeral home chapel with visitation one hour prior to service. Rev. Otis Lewelling will officiate and members of the Pascagoula Fire Department will serve as honorary pallbearers.

Interment will follow at Machpelah Cemetery in Pascagoula, MS.

* His brother, William C. "Bill" "Bugs" Sample Sr., of Gulfport, died May 6, 2008, in Gulfport, MS. William served in the Navy for 4 years.

Bruce David James died in Carthage, Mississippi. He attended Redwood High School. His parents were George Lee (1901-63) and Mary Lottye Scarbrough (1904-85) James. His siblings included George L. (1926-69), Barbara Ann (Shumaker) (1930-97) and Billy Gene (1934-2005). His father was a bridge watchman for the railroad.

Bonnie Floreen Marshall Stokes, 82, passed away Jan. 15, 2017, at the Bluffs Rehab and Health Care in Vicksburg.

She lived in Mississippi since 1944, and was a member of First Pentecostal Church of Vicksburg. She is preceded in death by his father, Herbert E. Marshall; mother Estelle Fields Marshall; and sister, Margie Furr. She is survived by four sons, Billy F. (Carolyn) Stokes of Vicksburg, Bobby J. (Cathy) Stokes of Vicksburg, David (Pam) Stokes of Delta, La., and Ronnie W. (Wendy) Stokes of Vicksburg; 13 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.

Service will be Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017, at 11 a.m. at First Pentecostal Church of Vicksburg. Burial will be at Greenlawn Gardens in Vicksburg.

Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until the hour of service at the church, Wednesday Jan. 25, 2017. The Rev. Dathan Tipton and Rev. D.W. Tipton will conduct the service under the direction of Glenwood Funeral Home.

Pallbearers will be grandsons Randall Bankston, Paris, Jeffery, Jeremy, Justin, Dave, Brandon and Daniel Stokes, Damon Watt and Ian Lambert. Honorary pallbearers will be her great-grandsons.

Memorials can be made to First Pentecostal Church in Vicksburg, Ms. 6541 Paxton Rd. Vicksburg, MS, 39180.

John Carroll Taylor, former Vicksburg resident, died Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at the home of his daughter in Pelahatchie. He was 80.

John was born in Vicksburg and was the son of the late James Wesley Taylor and Myrlee Kirkley Taylor. James and Myrlee were farmers at Kings Point Island.

He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. He was of the Baptist faith.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Melba Taylor; a granddaughter, Melynda Porter; two sisters, Bernice Louise Taylor Kuhnert and Rosalie Taylor Murray and a brother Charles W. Taylor.

He is survived by a daughter, Lynda Porter Chrestman of Pelahatchie; a brother, Lawrence Taylor; three grandchildren, Melissa Porter Osada (Manuel), Michael Porter (Brissy) and Charles Chrestman; 10 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.

Services will be 11 a.m. Friday, June 23, at Riles Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the hour of service.

Interment will be in Greenlawn Gardens Cemetery.

Clara Christine Rodgers Cousins passed away June 23, 2020. Born July 18, 1933 to Siddie Shiers Rodgers and Robert Rodgers. Her hobbies were her love of flowers, fishing, hunting, shopping and yard sales. She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband of 60 years, Frank Cousins, her daughter, Trudy Inez Cousins Tero, two sisters, Lona May Rodgers Herron, Virginia Rodgers Taylor and one brother, Otto Rodgers.

Below is a photo of Christine and her brother Jesse Rodgers.
 

She is survived by her children, Paula Bryant, Frankie Cousins, Maxine Clanton, Glen Cousins, Rose Parker, Kim Davis and Tommy Cousins. Her three siblings Mozelle Barnes, Grace Gallager and Jesse Rodgers. Thirty-seven grandchildren and forty great grandchildren. 

Service will be Monday June 29, 2020 at 11:00 at the Fisher-Riles Chapel at the Cherry St. location. Visitation will be from 10:00 am until the hour of service. Burial will follow at Greenlawn Gardens Cemetery.

John Wayne Stinson was the son of John Rex (1910–1992) and Lorraine Rodgers (1918–1987Stinson. He had a sister, Alice Faye Stinson (Williams) of Moorhead, MS and a brother Billy Stinson of Sunflower.

Wayne married Bobbie Nell Johnson and had two children, William Lane Stinson and John Stinson. Willaim died in 1988 at the age of 26. Wayne and Bobbie divorced.

This entry from the Miss Quarter Horse Association. "It is with deep sympathy that we inform you of the passing of MQHA Past President Wayne Stinson of Meridian, MS area. As well as being on the Board of Directors, and serving as President, Mr. Wayne worked tirelessly in securing judges and ring stewards for many shows, including several years of the Mississippi Futurity and also the Dixie National Quarter Horse Show. He was a horse trainer all his life and trained MANY horses and riders"