Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Attala County Mississippi

Troy Darnell Trehern

Troy Darnell Trehern

Feb 19, 2015

Troy Darnell Trehern, 52, died Thursday, February 19, 2015 at his home. Visitation is from 5-8 p.m. Saturday at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services are 2 p.m. Sunday, February 22, 2015 in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Trehern Family Cemetery. Rev. Donald Self and Jerry Meggs will officiate. He is survived by his...

Effie Mae Dixon Myrick

Effie Mae Dixon Myrick

Feb 17, 2015

Effie Mae Dixon Myrick, 88, died Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at Baptist Medical Center in Jackson. Visitation is from 9-11 a.m. on Saturday, February 21 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services are 11 a.m. in the chapel with burial to follow in the Parkway cemetery. Rev. Barry Corbett will officiate. She was born July 26, 1926 in...

Bobbie Gene Davis

Bobbie Gene Davis

Feb 14, 2015

Mrs. Davis was born April 13, 1930, to Henry Clay and Selma Cockroft. She was employed with Garan and a member of Sandhill Baptist Church. She is survived by her husband, D.L. Davis; sons, Paul (Shirley) Davis and Mike (Debbie) Davis all of Kosciusko; grandchildren, Kristy Davis Odom, and Nicholas Davis, both of Kosciusko; great-grandchildren, Abbey and Madison Odom;...

Bertha Mae Bigby

Bertha Mae Bigby

Feb 13, 2015

Bertha Mae Bigby, 89, of Kosciusko, died Friday, February 13, 2015, at the Attala County Nursing Center. Visitation is this evening from 6-8 p.m. at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services are Monday, February 16 at 11 a.m. in the Williamsville Assembly of God. Burial will be in Parkway Cemetery. Rev. Walter Robbins will officiate. Mrs. Bigby was...

Virginia Moore Bain

Virginia Moore Bain

Feb 12, 2015

Virginia Elizabeth Moore Bain, 81, of Ethel, died Thursday, February 12, 2015, in Vaiden Community Living Center in Vaiden. Visitation is Friday, February 13, 2014, 5-8 pm at Jordan Funeral Home. Funeral services are Saturday at 1:00pm at Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Marvin Chapel Cemetery. Rev. Dewitt Bain, Rev. Joseph Bain, and Allen Lee will officiate...

Travis Monroe Davis

Travis Monroe Davis

Feb 11, 2015

Travis Monroe Davis, 78, of French Camp, died Wednesday, February 11, 2015 in the Merritt Health Center in Jackson. Visitation is 6-9 p.m. Thursday, February 12 at Jordan Funeral Home. Funeral services are 10:30 a.m. Friday in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow in Oak Ridge Church of Christ Cemetery He was a member of Oak...

Alice Brewer Drewery

Alice Brewer Drewery

Feb 7, 2015

Alice Rinnie Drewery, 86, a homemaker, died on Saturday, February 7, 2015 at her home. Visitation will be Monday, February 9 starting at 4 p.m. at the Williamsville Assembly of God. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the church with burial in the Harmonia Cemetery. Rev. Kevin Luker will officiate. She was a member of the...

Lucy Thompson Fowler

Lucy Thompson Fowler

Feb 6, 2015

Mary Lucy T. Fowler Kosciusko Mary "Lucy" Thompson Fowler, 91, died Friday, February 6, 2015, at Monfort Jones Memorial Hospital in Kosciusko. Services will be held Monday, February 9 at 11 am at First Baptist Church with burial at Parkway Cemetery. Visitation is Monday from 10-11 am in the church sanctuary. Jordan Funeral Home is in charge of the...

Virginia Smith Moore

Virginia Smith Moore

Feb 3, 2015

Virginia Smith Moore, 85, of Barnes, died Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Columbus. Visitation is from 11-1 p.m. on Friday, February 6 at Rocky Point Baptist. Funeral services are 1 p.m. in the church with burial to follow in the church cemetery. Rev. Shane McGivney will officiate. She was born August 23, 1929 in Sunflower...

James Melvin Beach

James Melvin Beach

Feb 2, 2015

James Melvin Beach, Sr. 85, died Monday, February 2, 2015 in the State Veterans Home in Kosciusko. Visitation will be Wednesday, February 4, 2015 from 5-8 p.m. at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services will be Thursday at 11 a.m. in the First Baptist Church with burial to follow in the Parkway Cemetery. Jordan Funeral Home is in...

Sue Oliver Pettit

Sue Oliver Pettit

Jan 31, 2015

Sue Oliver Pettit, 99, died Saturday, January 31, 2015 at Highland Home in Ridgeland. Visitation will be at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko at 10 a.m. Tuesday with a memorial service to follow at 11 a.m. There will be a private burial at Kosciusko City Cemetery. Mrs. Pettit, a lifelong resident of Attala County, was born May 8, 1915...

June Miller England

June Miller England

Jan 29, 2015

June M. England, 89, died Thursday, January 29, 2015 in the Clinton Healthcare. Visitation is from 12-2 p.m. Saturday, January 31, 2015 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Graveside services are 2 p.m. Saturday in Parkway Cemetery. Rev. Barry Corbett will officiate. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Kosciusko. She is survived by her daughter, Carol...

Mary Janette Dodd

Mary Janette Dodd

Jan 26, 2015

Mary Janette Dodd, 90, a retired homemaker, died Monday, January 26, 2015 at University Medical Center in Jackson, MS after a brief illness. Visitation is Tuesday, January 27 from 5 – 8 p.m. at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Funeral services are 1 p.m. on Wednesday in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the North Union Cemetery....

Roy Glynn Holdiness

Roy Glynn Holdiness

Jan 26, 2015

Roy Glynn Holdiness, 77, died Monday, January 26, 2015 at the Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, MS. Visitation is from 5-8 p.m. on Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko, MS and from 12-2 p.m. on Thursday at Indian Springs Assembly of God in Winston County. Military funeral services are 2:00 p.m. Thursday at Indian Springs...

Wesley David Rule

Wesley David Rule

Jan 25, 2015

Wesley David Rule, 60, died Sunday, January 25, 2015 at the Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, MS. Visitation is from 5-8 p.m. on Saturday, January 31, 2015 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko, MS. Funeral services are 2:00 p.m. Sunday in the Jordan Funeral Home Chapel with burial in the Brister Cemetery. Jordan Funeral Home is in charge of...

Clemmie Christine Higginbotham

Clemmie Christine Higginbotham

Jan 18, 2015

Clemmie Christine Higginbotham 92, of Kosciusko,MS passed this life January 18, 2015 at The Windsor Nursing Home in Columbus Mississippi after a brief illness. Graveside services were 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at Pleasant Grove Congregational Methodist Church Cemetery with Rev. Jerry Meggs officiating. Survivors include Sisters: Myrna Belsom of Columbus, MS, Dean Overstreet of Hurley, MS and...

Garnell Hambrick

Garnell Hambrick

Jan 17, 2015

Garnell Hodges Hambrick, 92, died Friday, January 17, 2015 in her home. Visitation is from 10-12 p.m. and 5-8 p.m. on Friday, January 30, 2015 at Jordan Funeral Home in Kosciusko. Graveside services are 11 a.m. Saturday at the Old Plank Cemetery near Vaiden, MS. Rev. Ron Thomas will officiate. She was born in Attala County, MS. She was...

Lenoir Black

Lenoir Black

Jan 11, 2015

Lenoir Black, 88, of Memphis, Tennessee, departed this temporal life for life eternal on Sunday, January 11, 2015. Lenoir was born to Lester Samuel Black and Clara Hutchinson Black on June 4, 1926, in Weir, Mississippi. Lenoir attended Holmes Junior College and graduated from Mississippi State University. Lenoir began attending Mississippi State football games in the 1930's with his...

Jeanne Comfort Black

Jeanne Comfort Black

Jan 10, 2015

Jeanne Comfort Black, 87, of Memphis, Tennessee, departed from this life and into the glorious presence of Jesus Christ on Saturday, January 10, 2015. Jeanne was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, on April 5, 1927, to Claude Whalen Comfort and Ruby Ratliff Comfort. She completed her high school education at Holmes Junior College where she was both a cheerleader and...