Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Attala County Mississippi

Clarence E. "Clay" Morgan

Clarence E. "Clay" Morgan

Nov 6, 2015

Clarence E. "Clay" Morgan IV, 48, of French Camp, died Friday, November 6, 2015 at the Choctaw County Medical Center. Visitation will be from 12 p.m. till 2 p.m. Monday, November 9 at the French Camp Presbyterian Church. Funeral services will follow at 2 p.m. and burial will be in French Camp Cemetery. Rev. Alex Coblentz and Stewart Edwards...

Frances Thompson Evans

Frances Thompson Evans

Nov 4, 2015

Frances Marie Thompson Evans, 93, passed away at home in Kosciusko. Mrs. Evans was born November 7, 1921, in Aberdeen. She lived in both Aberdeen and Amory before moving to Kosciusko in 1956. Mrs. Evans was a member of First Baptist Church of Kosciusko, for 60 years, where she taught Sunday school, served as a church hostess, and on...

Otho Steve Sanders

Otho Steve Sanders

Oct 31, 2015

Otho Steve Sanders, 93, passed away on October 31, 2015, at the Mississippi State Veterans Nursing Home in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Funeral Services will be Monday, November 2, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. Jordan Funeral Home Chapel in Kosciusko, MS with burial In Parkway Cemetery. Steve was born in Sandersville in Jones County on August 10, 1922 to Steven M. Sanders...

Ray Rutledge

Ray Rutledge

Oct 31, 2015

Ray Rutledge, age 72, returned to his heavenly home October 31st, 2015, after a battle with pancreatic cancer and kidney disease. He passed away in his home and surrounded by his wife and children, in Kosciusko, MS. Ray is survived by his wife of 50 years, Sandra Rutledge, of Kosciusko, MS; his son and daughter-in-law, Steven Rutledge and Kim...

Lillie Jannett Moffett

Lillie Jannett Moffett

Oct 25, 2015

Lillie Jannett Moffett, 55, died Sunday, October 25, 2015 at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Grenada, MS. Jordan Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. She was a former employee of Electric Quartets. She is survived by sons, George R. Moffett, Jr. of Jackson, Joseph W. Moffett of Kosciusko, and Joseph A. Moffett of Kosciusko; daughters,...

Minnie Eudora Billings Jones

Minnie Eudora Billings Jones

Oct 19, 2015

Minnie Billings Jones, 92, of Sumner passed away October 19th at Quitman County Hospital. She was born September 26, 1923, to the late Georgiann and Henry Rollin Billings. She grew up in Attala County and moved to the Delta in the early 50's. She worked with her husband Cecil Jones, who preceded her in death, for many years in...

Billy Warren Price

Billy Warren Price

Oct 19, 2015

Billy Warren Price, 77, died Monday, October 19, 2015 at the Baptist-Attala Hospital in Kosciusko. Visitation is from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, October 20 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services are at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow in the Hebron Cemetery in Montgomery County. Rev. Walter Hines, Rev. James Young,...

Mildred Louise Madden-Alexander

Mildred Louise Madden-Alexander

Oct 9, 2015

Mildred Louise Madden-Alexander of Kosciusko, passed away Friday, October 9th, 2015 at 9:56 a.m. at the Lutheran Community Home in Seymour Indiana. Visitation will be held at Jordan Funeral Home, 870 Hwy 12 East, Kosciusko, MS 39090 on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Funeral services will be held at Unity Baptist Church on Wednesday,...

Timothy Cagle Lindsey

Timothy Cagle Lindsey

Oct 7, 2015

Timothy Cagle Lindsey Kosciusko Timothy Cagle Lindsey passed away on Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at University Medical Center in Jackson after a month long struggle battling Metastatic Melanoma. He was born on October 25, 1980 in Greenwood, MS, but he grew up in Kosciusko in the loving care of his grandmother. Tim was a happy, joyous young man of...

Dally "Sis" Lepard

Dally "Sis" Lepard

Oct 5, 2015

Dally "Sis" Lepard Thomastown Dally Estell Johnson Lepard, 83, died Monday, October 5, 2015 in the Attala County Nursing Home. Visitation is from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services are at 11 a.m. Wednesday, October 7 in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow in the Shiloh Cemetery. Rev. Billy Frazure will...

Laura Bell Russell

Laura Bell Russell

Oct 1, 2015

Mrs. Laura Bell Russell, 96, of Ethel, died Thursday, October 1, 2015, at the Baptist Medical Center Attala. Visitation is from 10 a.m. till 11 a.m. Monday, October 5, at Jordan Funeral Home. Funeral services will follow at 11 a.m. Monday, October 5, in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Stonewall Cemetery. Rev. Ralph Hunt will...

Joseph Daniel Breazeale

Joseph Daniel Breazeale

Sep 28, 2015

Joseph Daniel Breazeale, Jr., 61, of Kosciusko, died Monday, September 28, 2015, at home. He was born on February 4, 1954, to Joseph Daniel and Elizabeth Odom Breazeale. He was a veteran of the United States Navy. He is survived by a daughter, Renee Breazeale, of Houston, TX; three brothers John, Russell, and Thomas Breazeale, all of Attala County;...

Billy Dean Clark

Billy Dean Clark

Sep 23, 2015

Billy Dean Clark, 75 died Wednesday, September 23, 2015 at his home. Visitation is from 5-8 p.m. Thursday, September 24, 2015 and Friday from 8-10 a.m. at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services are 10 a.m. Friday in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Carson Ridge Cemetery. Rev. Lynn Cain and Rev. Doyle Mitchell will...

Melvin Orea Philyaw

Melvin Orea Philyaw

Sep 21, 2015

Melvin Orea Philyaw, 83, of Kosciusko, MS, died Monday, September 21, 2015 in Fairhope, AL. Visitation is from 11 a.m. till 12:30 p.m. Saturday, September 26, 2015 at Jordan Funeral Home of Kosciusko, MS. Graveside services are at 1 p.m. Saturday, September 26 at the Attala Memory Gardens near Kosciusko. Survivors include daughters, Melody Philyaw Hammitt of Fairhope, AL,...

Muzette Overstreet

Muzette Overstreet

Sep 15, 2015

Mrs. Overstreet was born March 10, 1928 to Preston and Euna Steen Overstreet. She was a retired Executive Administrator with The State of Mississippi Division of The Blind also a member of the Second Baptist Church in Kosciusko where she served as pianist. She passed this life Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at Belhaven Senior Care in Jackson,MS. Mrs. Overstreet...

Sudie Kate Strahan Hodges

Sudie Kate Strahan Hodges

Sep 14, 2015

Mrs. Hodges was born in Attala County, to George Nebraska and Lottie Mae Tullos Strahan, on February 13, 1922. She was a retired seamstress with Garan, a member of New Salem Baptist Church, former member of the Sheriff's Posse Riding Club, and Snyder's Homemakers Club. Survivors include: a daughter, Sybil Hood; a son, Herbert Hodges, both of the Springdale...

Ezra Weldon Ellis

Ezra Weldon Ellis

Sep 12, 2015

Mr. Ellis was a lifelong member of Friendship United Methodist Church. He retired from Sheller Globe in Kosciusko. After retirement most any day he could be found on his family farm tending his garden or cattle or riding his gator. He was a World War II Navy veteran serving aboard the USS Sibley from which he piloted a troop...

Willie Owen Rigby

Willie Owen Rigby

Sep 10, 2015

Mr. Rigby was a US Army Veteran of World War II, and retired from Wackenhut. He was member of Shiloh Independent Methodist Church. Survivors include Linda (Royce) Haynes, Tommy (Nell) Rigby, Benny (Sheila) Rigby, Jerry (Brenda) Rigby, Carol (Freddie) Shields, Shirley (Jerry) Sanders, John (Debbie) Rigby, Nora (Jerry) McCrory, Ricky (Susie) Rigby, Gary (Denise) Rigby, and Sandra Kay Rigby;...

Lennie Carrol Kelley

Lennie Carrol Kelley

Sep 6, 2015

Lennie Carrol Kelley, 74, died on September 6, 2015 in the Attala County Nursing Center in Kosciusko. Funeral services were Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Bear Creek Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Rev. Chet Ferguson officiated. Jordan Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements. Mr. Kelley was born July 29, 1941, in Attala County to...

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