Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Attala County Mississippi
Danny Parish
Feb 9, 2025
Thomas Daniel “Danny” Parish, 72, of McCool, Mississippi, passed away on February 9, 2025, at his daughter’s residence. Visitation will be held from 11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., Friday, February 14, 2025, at Bear Creek Church. Funeral services will follow at 1:00 p.m., Friday, February 14, 2025, at Bear Creek Church, with a burial at Bear Creek Cemetery. Rev. Nathan...
Jerry Allen
Feb 9, 2025
Jerry Allen, 78, of Kosciusko, Mississippi, passed away Sunday, February 9, 2025, at G.V. Sonny Montgomery V. A. Medical Center. Visitation will be held from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, and 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, February 12, 2025. Funeral services will follow at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, at Jordan...
Earl Pearson
Feb 7, 2025
Earl Pearson, 93, of Kosciusko, Mississippi passed away Friday, February 7, 2025, at The Attala County Nursing Center. Graveside services will be held at 1:00 p.m., Sunday, February 9, 2025, at Parkway Cemetery.
Earl was born November 3, 1931, in Thomastown, Mississippi, to Eugene Pearson and Pearlie Payne Pearson. He was a laborer and welder for Superior Coach.
Earl is survived by...
Gary Lamar Philyaw
Feb 7, 2025
Gary Lamar Philyaw, 61, of Philadelphia, Mississippi, passed away Friday, February 7, 2025, at the Neshoba General Hospital. Graveside services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Monday, February 10, 2025, at Attala Memory Gardens. Rev. Butch Bell will officiate the services.
Gary was born November 11, 1963, in Meridian, Mississippi, to Bobby Ray Philyaw and Mary Joann Stokes Philyaw. He was...
Bill Lacey
Feb 3, 2025
Bill Smithson Lacey, 87, of Kosciusko, passed away on February 3, 2025, at the MS State Veterans’ Home. Bill was born in Biloxi on March 9, 1937, to Dr. Charles Frank Lacey and Adelynn Venus Lacey. Bill grew up in Thomastown and Kosciusko. After graduating from high school in 1955, Bill served in the Navy. At the end of his...
Caroline Kathleen "Lois" Pickle Cockroft
Jan 30, 2025
Caroline Kathleen "Lois" Pickle Cockroft, 95, of Nile Community in Attala County, Mississippi. Visitation will be held from 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m., Monday, February 3, 2025, at Jordan Funeral Home. Funeral services will follow the visitation at 2:00 p.m., Monday, February 3, 2025, at Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Nile Cemetery.
Born: March 30, 1929, in Attala County,...
Amie Mae Tavares Charity
Jan 27, 2025
Amie Mae Tavares Charity, 86, of Kosciusko, Mississippi, passed away Monday, January 27, 2025, at Grenada Rehab and Healthcare Center. Visitation will be held from 11:00 a.m. until 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 29, 2025, at Jordan Funeral Home. Funeral services will follow at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 29, 2025, at St. Therese Catholic Church with burial at Parkway Cemetery.
Amie was...
Trevor Ryan Musselwhite
Jan 25, 2025
Trevor Ryan Musselwhite, 49, of Kosciusko, MS, passed away at home on Saturday, January 25, 2025. Visitation will be from 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m., Monday, January 27, 2025, at Jordan Funeral Home. The funeral service will be at 2:00 p.m., Monday, January 27, 2025, at Jordan Funeral Home, with burial to follow in Musselwhite Cemetery. Rev. James Culpepper and...
Lena Rose Overton Veazey-Moore
Jan 18, 2025
Lena Rose Overton Veazey-Moore, 90, passed away Saturday, January 18, 2025, at her residence in Kosciusko. Visitation will be from 11:30 am until 12:30 pm on Thursday, January 23, 2025, at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services will follow at 12:30 pm from the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel, with burial in McCool Cemetery. Rev. Shannon Pennington will officiate the...
Joyce Ferguson
Jan 14, 2025
Mrs. Mary Joyce Lawhorn Ferguson, 89, of Slidell, Louisiana, formerly of Ethel, Mississippi, passed away Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at her daughter’s residence. Visitation will be held from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Saturday, January 18, 2025, at Jordan Funeral Home. Funeral services will follow at 1:00 p.m., January 18, 2025, at Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Ebenezer...
Wayne Leonard
Jan 9, 2025
Wayne Leonard, 87, of French Camp, Mississippi, passed away Thursday, January 9, 2025, at Martha Jo Leslie State Veterans Home. A visitation will be held from 10 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at Jordan Funeral Home. Funeral services will follow at 1:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Bethsaida Cemetery....
Fredia Hunt
Jan 5, 2025
Fredia Jo Hunt, 83, of Weir, MS, passed away Sunday, January 5, 2025, at Choctaw Regional Medical Hospital. Graveside services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 8, 2025, at Beulah Cemetery, 6198 Weir-Panhandle Road, Weir, MS 39772. Rev. Hank Dempsey will officiate the services.
Fredia was born July 14, 1941, to Everett Hale Buck and Onex Montee Dorman in...
Dorothy Oliver Sides
Dec 29, 2024
Dorothy Faye Oliver Sides passed away at her home on December 29, 2024. She was born August 11, 1926, in the Providence Community in Attala County to her parents Glennie Nowell Oliver and Delma Oliver. After losing her mother to complications from childbirth, Dorothy and her sister Christine were raised by their aunt and uncle Nora Oliver Thompson and John...
Vernon Alton Moore
Dec 27, 2024
Vernon Moore, 78, of Byram, passed away on December 27, 2024, at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson. Visitation will be from 11:00 am until 1:00 pm on Tuesday, December 31, 2024, at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services will follow at 1:00 pm from the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel, with burial in Parkway Cemetery with military honors. Randy...
Jack Glenn Terry
Dec 22, 2024
Jack Glenn Terry, 77, of Madison, formerly of Kosciusko, passed away on December 22, 2024, at the Mississippi Care Center in Morton, Mississippi. Visitation will be held Saturday, December 28, 2024, from 11:00-12:00, at Jordan Funeral Home Chapel, with services beginning at 12:00. Rev. Joel Richardson and Grant M. Myrick officiating. Burial will be at Parkway Cemetery. Jordan Funeral Home...
Rosalie Beecham
Dec 17, 2024
Rosalie Beecham, 101, of Kosciusko, Mississippi, passed away Tuesday, December 17, 2024, in Decatur, Alabama, at her daughter’s residence. Visitation will be held from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. Saturday, December 21, 2024, at the Kosciusko First United Pentecostal Church. Funeral services will follow at 11:00 a.m., with burial at Kosciusko City Cemetery. Rev. Dallas Beecham, Rev. Shannon Pennington, Rev....
Zeborah Myrick
Dec 13, 2024
Zeborah Harkins Myrick, 72, of Waco, Georgia, formerly of Kosciusko, Mississippi, passed away Friday, December 13, 2024, at her residence. A visitation will be held from 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. on Friday, December 20, 2024, at Jordan Funeral Home. Funeral services will follow at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, December 20, 2024, at Jordan Funeral Home Chapel, with burial at...
Donna Lynn Ivey
Dec 13, 2024
Donna Lynn Ivey, 59, of the Zama Community, passed away on December 13, 2024, at home. Visitation will be at Jordan Funeral Home from 2:00-5:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 15, 2024. Funeral Services will be 12:00 p.m., Monday, December 16, 2024 at Ebenezer Baptist Church with burial to follow in Ebenezer Cemetery. Rev. Kenny Gentry will officiate the services.
Mrs. Ivey...
Karen Holt
Nov 29, 2024
Karen Ruth Hardeman Holt departed her earthly body and took her place among the Great Cloud of Witnesses on November 29, 2024. Karen was born to James Henry and Ruth Hardeman in New Iberia, Louisiana, on March 11, 1954. It is fitting that the day of her departure would be in a time of thanksgiving, for it is the day...
Mary Nell O'Briant Johnson
Nov 28, 2024
Mary Nell O’Briant Johnson, 91, of Carthage, passed away on November 28, 2024, at her residence. Visitation will be from 11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. Saturday, November 30, 2024, at Jordan Funeral Home. Funeral services will follow at 1:00 p.m. from the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel, with interment in Parkway Cemetery. Rev. Don Cook will officiate the services.
Mary Nell was...
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