Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Attala County Mississippi

Inez Summers

Inez Summers

Oct 27, 2017

Inez Summers Kosciusko Inez Summers, 91, passed away on Friday, October 27, 2017 at the Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, MS. Visitation is from 12:30-2 p.m. Sunday, October 29 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services are at 2 p.m. Sunday, October 29 in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow in the Jerusalem Cemetery....

Haizlee Christine Bowie

Haizlee Christine Bowie

Oct 26, 2017

Haizlee Christine Bowie Kosciusko Haizlee Christine Bowie, passed away Thursday, October 26, 2017 at the University Medical Center in Jackson, MS. Graveside services will be 4 p.m. Wednesday, November 1, 2017 in the Parkway Cemetery. Rev. Barry Corbett and Rev. Shannon Pennington will officiate. Survivors include her parents, Stephen and Anna Bowie of Kosciusko; brother, Zander Bowie of Kosciusko;...

Linda Breazeale Vanderford

Linda Breazeale Vanderford

Oct 18, 2017

Linda Breazeale Vanderford, 73, passed away Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at Hospice Ministries in Ridgeland, MS. Visitation is from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, October 19 and Friday from 1-2 p.m. at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services are at 2 p.m. Friday, October 20 in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow in the Parkway Cemetery. Rev....

Emmie V. "Polly" Lepard

Emmie V. "Polly" Lepard

Oct 16, 2017

Emmie V. "Polly" Lepard, 85, passed away on Monday, October 16, 2017 at Choctaw Living Residential Center. Visitation is from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday, October 17 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Graveside services are at 2 p.m. Wednesday, October 18th in the Seneasha Cemetery with burial to follow. Rev. Curtis Pace will officiate. She was a member of New...

Elva Lee Swindoll

Elva Lee Swindoll

Oct 15, 2017

Elva Lee Swindoll, 60, passed away Sunday, October 15, 2017 in Anderson Hospital in Meridian. Memorial service will be 11 a.m. Saturday, October 21 at the Sebastopol Baptist Church. Rev. Jay Clark will officiate. He was a member of Sebastopol Baptist Church. He was a handyman of electricity, plumbing, and carpentry. He was a race car driver and he...

Waylon "Red" Wheeless

Waylon "Red" Wheeless

Oct 8, 2017

Waylon "Red" Wheeless Ethel Emmett Waylon Wheeless, 83, passed away Sunday, October 8, 2017 at his home. Visitation is from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday, October 10 and 12-2 p.m. Wednesday, October 11 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services are at 2 p.m. Wednesday, October 11 in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow in the Carson...

Elbert "Butch" Floyd Johnson, Jr.

Elbert "Butch" Floyd Johnson, Jr.

Oct 7, 2017

Elbert "Butch" Johnson, Jr. Kosciusko Elbert Floyd "Butch" Johnson, Jr., 44, passed away Saturday, October 7, 2017. Visitation is from 5-10 p.m. Thursday, October 12 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services are at 1 p.m. Friday in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow in the Hebron Cemetery in Montgomery County. Rev. Eddie Pierce will...

Esther Darlene Self

Esther Darlene Self

Oct 6, 2017

Esther Darlene Mitchell Self, died October 6, 2017, at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS, after an extended illness. She was born in Kosciusko, MS, September 2, 1929, to Blanche Cook Mitchell and Eddie Mitchell. She was married to Dolan Douglas "Doug" Self, Sr., on September 1, 1946. Doug and Darlene enjoyed their decades of service...

Troy Clifton Hobson, Jr.

Troy Clifton Hobson, Jr.

Oct 5, 2017

Troy Clifton Hobson, Jr., 51, passed away Thursday, October 5, 2017 at his home. Visitation is from 5-8 p.m. Saturday, October 7 and from 9-2 p.m. Sunday, October 8 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services are at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow in the Smallwood Cemetery. Rev. Stacey Adcock...

Johnny V. Cook

Johnny V. Cook

Oct 4, 2017

Johnny V. Cook McCool Johnny V. Cook, 72, passed away on October 4, 2017 at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson, MS. Visitation will be Friday, October 6 from 5-8 p.m. at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Graveside services will be Saturday, October 6 at 10 a.m. in the Liberty Hill Cemetery with burial to follow. Rev. Doyle Mitchell will...

Elizabeth Cook Edwards

Elizabeth Cook Edwards

Oct 1, 2017

Elizabeth Cook Edwards Brandon, formerly of Kosciusko Elizabeth Cook Edwards, 88, died Sunday morning at Peach Tree Village in Brandon, Mississippi, where she was surrounded by loving family members and tenderly cared for by the staff of Peach Tree throughout her stay there. Visitation will be held at First Presbyterian Church in Kosciusko, Mississippi at 10:00am, Wednesday October 4th,...

Bobby C. "Corky" Pittman, Jr.

Bobby C. "Corky" Pittman, Jr.

Sep 28, 2017

Bobby C. Pittman, Jr. Hattiesburg, MS Bobby C. "Corky" Pittman, Jr. passed away on September 28, 2017, at the Jaquith Nursing Home in Pearl, MS. Corky is survived by his son, Dylan B. Pittman of Hattiesburg, MS; his mother, Norma Hayden Davis; and his sister, Stacy Pittman Knight (Chris), all of Longwood, FL. He was preceded in death by...

Heather Nicole Price Seymour

Heather Nicole Price Seymour

Sep 27, 2017

Heather Nicole Price Seymour, 40, passed away Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, MS. Visitation is from 5-8 p.m. Friday, September at the Abundant Life Church of God. Funeral services are at 2 p.m. Saturday at the church with burial to follow in the Hebron Cemetery in Montgomery County. Rev. Jimmie Smith will officiate....

James S. Callahan

James S. Callahan

Sep 21, 2017

James Samuel Callahan, 73, passed away on September 21, 2017 at the Vaiden Community Living Center after a prolonged illness. The family will receive friends at 10:30 a.m. at the church prior to the memorial service. Memorial services will be 11 a.m. of October 7, 2017 at the Providence Independent Methodist Church in the Carmack Community. The staff of...

Joe Guyton Collins

Joe Guyton Collins

Sep 17, 2017

Dr. Joe Guyton Collins went to be with the Lord September 17, 2017 at St. Dominic Hospital, Jackson, Mississippi. He was born October 25, 1936 to Elizabeth Morgan and Clifton Wendall Collins in Ethel, MS. He was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Madison where he served as a men's Sunday School teacher for many years...

Mary Helen Rutherford Douglas

Mary Helen Rutherford Douglas

Sep 15, 2017

Mary Helen Douglas Lumberton, MS Mary Helen Rutherford Douglas, 65, passed away on Friday, September 15, 2017 at her home. She was a member of Salem Methodist Church in New Port Community. Survivors include her husband, Robert W. Douglas of Lumberton, MS; daughters, Pamela D. Ruth of Livingston, LA and Cynthia Lynn Douglas of Texas; three step-grandchildren; and two...

Margaret Ann Harlow Self

Margaret Ann Harlow Self

Sep 14, 2017

Margaret Ann Harlow Self McCool Margaret Ann Harlow Self, 75, passed away on Thursday, September 14, 2017 at her home. Visitation is from 12-3 p.m. Sunday, September 17 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services are 3 p.m. on Sunday in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow in the Bowie Chapel Independent Methodist Church Cemetery...

Carol Ann Larson Whitman

Carol Ann Larson Whitman

Sep 12, 2017

Carol Ann Larson Whitman, 71, passed away on Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at Baptist-Attala Hospital in Kosciusko. Visitation is from 12-2 p.m. Saturday, September 16 at the Abundant Life Church of God in Williamsville with services to follow at 2 p.m. Rev. Jimmie Smith will officiate. She attended the Abundant Life Church of God, where she taught Sunday school....

Bernice L. Jones

Bernice L. Jones

Sep 10, 2017

Bernice L. Jones, 72, passed away on Sunday, September 10, 2017 at her home in Kosciusko. She was of the Baptist faith. She is survived by her husband, Richard Jones of Kosciusko.

Frances Estelle Becton

Frances Estelle Becton

Sep 4, 2017

Frances Estelle Becton, 75, passed away Monday, September 4, 2017 at her home. Visitation is from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday, September 5 at Jordan Funeral Home. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Breazeale Cemetery. Rev. Doyle Mitchell will officiate. She was born March 21, 1942, in Greenwood, MS to...