Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Attala County Mississippi

Martha Anne Hamilton Ward

Martha Anne Hamilton Ward

Jan 16, 2018

Mrs. Martha Anne Hamilton Ward, 55, of French Camp, passed away peacefully at home on January 16, 2018. Services were held at 2 pm at French Camp Presbyterian Church with Rev. Nathan Wright and Rev. Doug Atkinson officiating. Burial was in French Camp Cemetery. Visitation was held on Friday evening and also one hour prior to the service. Martha...

Gertrude Chennault

Gertrude Chennault

Jan 16, 2018

Miss Sarah Gertrude Chennault, 83, passed away Tuesday, January 16, 2019 at the Choctaw Residential Center in Philadelphia, MS. Visitation is from 9-10:30 a.m. Saturday, January 20, 2018 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services are at 10:30 a.m. in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Smyrna Cemetery. Rev. Butch Bell will officiate. She was...

Johnnie Ruth Frazier Henderson

Johnnie Ruth Frazier Henderson

Jan 16, 2018

Johnnie Ruth "Rue Rue" Frazier Henderson, 90, passed away Tuesday, January 16, 2018 at Brookdale Assisted Living in Biloxi, MS. Visitation is 10-11 a.m. on Friday, January 19 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services are 11 a.m. on Friday in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow in the Parkway Cemetery. Rev. Ralph Hunt and...

James "Jim" Andrew Isackson

James "Jim" Andrew Isackson

Jan 14, 2018

James Andrew Isackson, Sr., 82, passed away January 14, 2018 in the Martha Jo Leslie Veterans' Home in Kosciusko. Jim, as known to family and friends, enlisted in the United States Army upon completion of high school. After serving in the Army, he became a truck owner/operator hauling bricks until he retired. During this time, he married Joyce Cockroft...

Edith Mae Thompson Bowie

Edith Mae Thompson Bowie

Jan 13, 2018

Edith Mae Thompson Bowie completed her long journey with Dementia and took her first breath in Heaven on Saturday, January 13, 2018 at Campbell's Cove, St. Catherine's Village, Madison, MS. Edith was born July 28, 1928 in McCool, MS to Davis Maxwell and Mamie Simpson Thompson. She graduated Valedictorian from McCool High School. She married her childhood sweetheart, Sidney...

Lucius Anthony "Tony" Rice

Lucius Anthony "Tony" Rice

Jan 10, 2018

Lucius Anthony Rice Kosciusko Mr. Lucius Anthony "Tony" Rice, 58, passed away January 10, 2018 at his home in Kosciusko, MS. He was born on May 18, 1959 in Grenada MS to Luke and Willie Rice. He was also known by his friends as "T.R.". He is survived by his mother, Willie Rice of Kosciusko; sister, Wanda (Shannon) Witzel...

Freddie Lee Lawrence

Freddie Lee Lawrence

Jan 9, 2018

Freddie Lee Lawrence, 76, passed away Tuesday, January 9, 2018 at Attala County Nursing Home in Kosciusko. Visitation is from 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, January 10 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko and 1:30-2 p.m. at Nile Church of Christ. Funeral services are at 2 p.m. Thursday, January 11 at the Nile Church of Christ with burial to follow in...

Kishiko Shoji Brock

Kishiko Shoji Brock

Jan 7, 2018

Kishiko (Kish) Brock, 87, born May 6, 1930 in Tokyo Japan, a Kosciusko resident since 1962, passed away on Sunday, January 7, 2018 at the Oaks on Parkwood senior living community in Bessemer, Alabama. Funeral services were held on Wednesday, January 10th at Jordan Funeral Home, with burial following at Parkway Cemetery. Reverend Barry Corbett officiated. Kish met and...

Dovie Mae Threet Mangrum

Dovie Mae Threet Mangrum

Jan 5, 2018

Dovie Threet Mangrum Kosciusko Dovie Mae Threet Mangrum, 99, passed away Friday, January 5, 2018 at the Attala County Nursing Center in Kosciusko. Visitation is from 4-6 p.m. on Sunday at Jordan Funeral Home and from 1-2:30 p.m. at Doty Springs Baptist Church. Funeral services are at 2:30 p.m. Monday, January 5, 2018 at Doty Springs Baptist Church with...

Ethel Louise Nichols Blount

Ethel Louise Nichols Blount

Jan 3, 2018

Ethel Louise Blount West Ethel Louise Nichols Blount, 82, passed away on Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at her home. Visitation is from 5-9 p.m. Thursday, January 4 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services are at 11 a.m. Friday, January 5 at North Union Baptist Church with burial to follow in the North Union Cemetery. Dr. Ladell Blanton...

Jaxon Sawyer Engelmann

Jaxon Sawyer Engelmann

Dec 31, 2017

Jaxon Sawyer Engelmann Kosciusko Infant Jaxon Sawyer Engelmann, passed away December 31, 2017 in Columbus, MS. Graveside services are at 1 p.m. Friday, at New Hope Cemetery. Survivors include parents, Lindsay and Stephen Engelmann of Kosciusko; brothers, James Stephen Engelmann, II and Jacob Shane Engelmann; sisters, Akemi Corinne Engelmann and Anna-Laiken Charlotte Engelmann; maternal grandparents, Donna Pope of Ethel...

Margie Parker Mitchell

Margie Parker Mitchell

Dec 25, 2017

Mrs. Margie Parker Mitchell, 82, of Kosciusko, died Monday, December 25, 2017, at the Attala County Nursing Center. Visitation is 5-8 p.m. Wednesday, December 27, at Jordan Funeral Home. Funeral services are at 11 a.m. Thursday, December 28 at the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel, with burial to follow in Parkway Cemetery. Rev. Barry Corbett and Rev. Dennis Arnold will...

Rachel Ward West

Rachel Ward West

Dec 16, 2017

Rachel Ann Ward West Kosciusko, Mississippi Rachel Ann Ward West, 74, died in her sleep at her home, December 16, 2017. Visitation will be 8:30 am until 10:00 am, Thursday, December 21, 2017 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral Services will follow at 10:00 am in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Barry C. Corbett and Rev....

Carol Ann Schexnayder Allen

Carol Ann Schexnayder Allen

Dec 15, 2017

Carol Ann Allen was born August 15, 1947, in Lafayette, Louisiana, to Chester and Wilma Mae Barker Schexnayder. She died Sunday, December 17, 2017, in Collinsville, Oklahoma, at the age of 70 years. Carol completed her secondary education in Louisiana and attended Texas Bible College. She was married November 20, 1970, in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to Reverend Ollie Marion Allen....

Lola Woods Jones

Lola Woods Jones

Dec 6, 2017

Lola W. Jones McCool Lola Woods "Granny" Jones, 92, passed away on Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at MS Baptist Medical Center in Jackson. Visitation is from 5-8 p.m. Friday, December 8 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services are at 2 p.m. Saturday, December 9 in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow in the Liberty...

Floyd Lenwood Mcgee

Floyd Lenwood Mcgee

Dec 3, 2017

Floyd Lenwood McGee, 91, of Thomastown, MS, died peacefully Sunday, December 3, 2017 at Hospice Ministries in Ridgeland, MS. He was born June 1, 1926 in Collins, MS. He was a veteran of World War II, and a Purple Heart recipient. After his military time, he was a sheriff's deputy with the Shelby County Police Department. He then retired...

Frances Jones Braswell Mcclelland

Frances Jones Braswell Mcclelland

Dec 2, 2017

Mrs. Frances Jones Braswell McClelland, 99, of Kosciusko, died Saturday, December 2, 2017 at Atwood Personal Care Home in Kosciusko. She had been a resident there for seven years. Visitation will be from 12:30-2 p.m. at Jordan Funeral Home. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday, December 5 at Jordan Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Bethsaida Cemetery,...

Martha "Sissy" Kristine Whitman Dees

Martha "Sissy" Kristine Whitman Dees

Nov 26, 2017

Mrs. Martha "Sissy" Kristine Whitman Dees age 48 passed this life Sunday, November 26, 2017 at her Sisters residence in Ethel. She was born January 24, 1969 in Canton, MS. to George Wesley Whitman Jr. and Carol Ann Larson Whitman. Funeral services will be 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Parkway...

Roma Jean Waldrop Holmes Easterwood

Roma Jean Waldrop Holmes Easterwood

Nov 26, 2017

Roma Jean Waldrop Holmes Easterwood, 90, passed away on November 25, 2017 at the Arbor in Jackson, MS. Visitation will be Tuesday from 11-1 p.m. at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services will follow at 1 p.m. in the chapel with burial in the Parkway Cemetery. Rev. Scott Wright will officiate. She was a member of First United...

Minna Winters Atwood Barrett

Minna Winters Atwood Barrett

Nov 18, 2017

Minna Atwood Barrett Kosciusko Minna Winters Atwood Barrett, 92, passed away Saturday, November 18, 2017 at Atwood Personal Care in Kosciusko. Visitation is from 1-3 p.m. Saturday, November 25 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services are at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow in the Parkway Cemetery. Rev. Barry Corbett...

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