OBITUARIES

Crystal Daniels

Crystal Daniels

Jul 17, 2020

Crystal G. Daniels, 41, of Jackson died July 17, 2020. She was a member of Walker Springs Road Baptist Church. An avid reader, Crystal particularly enjoyed reading murder mysteries most notably by Dean Koontz and JD Robb. She also enjoyed family game night and shopping for a bargain at thrift shops and antique stores. She will be dearly missed by...

Georgia Dungan

Georgia Dungan

Jul 13, 2020

Georgia Lenora Pipkin Dungan, 78, of Thomasville, passed away Monday, July 13, 2020 at Mobile Infirmary. She was born on November 10, 1941 in Toone, TN to George Stephen Pipkin and Ruby Geneva Stewart Pipkin. She had been employed with Wal-Mart as a customer service representative and attended Thomasville Church of God. She was devoted to her family and especially...

Horace Schultz

Horace Schultz

Jul 12, 2020

Horace Daniel Schultz, 82, of Jackson, passed away Sunday, July 12, 2020 at Camden Nursing Home. He was born in Grove Hill on May 25, 1938 o Archie Schultz and Lucy West Schultz. An active member of Stave Creek Baptist Church, he has served as a deacon and Sunday School teacher and was a member of the church choir. He...

Ruby Smith

Ruby Smith

Jul 12, 2020

Ruby Lee Smith, 90, of Jackson, passed away Sunday, July 12, 2020 at her residence. She was born in Sims Chapel on April 28, 1930 to Bates Johnston and Gladys Odom Johnston. A member of the First Baptist Church of Jackson, she enjoyed playing golf and bridge with her friends. She was a homemaker who devoted her time to her...

Kenneth Higginbotham

Kenneth Higginbotham

Jul 9, 2020

Kenneth Bryan Higginbotham, 56, of Jackson, passed away Thursday, July 9, 2020 at Jackson Health Care Facility. He was born in Mobile on June 30, 1964 to William Higginbotham, Jr. and Lorraine McClinton Higginbotham. A retired teacher with the Clarke County Board of Education, he taught at Jackson Middle School and coached numerous athletic teams at Jackson High School. He...

Norma Busby

Norma Busby

Jul 8, 2020

Norma Jean Busby, 54, of Chatom, passed away Wednesday, July 8, 2020 at her residence surrounded by family. She was born in Chatom on September 19, 1965 to Norman Rayford Chafin and Dessie Mae Sullivan Chafin. A homemaker, she enjoyed spending time with her extended family, but especially with her children and grandchildren. She enjoyed all of the holiday family...

Brett Seay

Brett Seay

Jul 5, 2020

Brett Seay of Chatom, 57, gained his angel wings on Sunday, July 5, 2020, after a brief and courageous battle with liver cancer. He was the son of the late Samuel C. and Frances Harkey Seay of Chatom. Brett was a 1981 graduate of Washington County High School and attended Livingston University. Throughout his life, he worked various jobs in...

Edith Sims

Edith Sims

Jun 30, 2020

Edith Marie Sims, 84, of Coffeeville, passed away Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at Pineview Nursing Home in Waynesboro, MS. She was born in Coffeeville on March 19, 1936 to George Bedwell and Gladys Roberts Bedwell. A member of Center Point Baptist Church in Coffeeville, she enjoyed spending time with her family, especially her grandchildren. She was an exceptional seamstress and...

Pamela Ryser

Pamela Ryser

Jun 29, 2020

Pamela Ann Horton “Pam” Ryser, 68, of Jackson, passed away Monday, June 29, 2020 at her home. She was born June 13, 1952 in Grove Hill to the late Glover Wade Horton, Sr. and Gwendolyn Finch Horton. A member of Good Springs Baptist Church, she was previously employed with the Clarke County Board of Education as a first-grade teacher...

Isiah Tarver

Isiah Tarver

Jun 24, 2020

Isiah Lee Tarver, 85, of Chatom, passed away Wednesday, June 24, 2020 at his residence surrounded by family. He was born in Millry on April 5, 1935 to Claude Franklin Tarver and Pearly L. Carney Tarver. He had been employed as a truck driver with Angeline Trucking in Chatom and was a member of Tibbie Baptist Church. He enjoyed hunting,...

Lois Newton

Lois Newton

Jun 24, 2020

Lois Wade Newton, 86, of Grove Hill, passed away Wednesday, June 24, 2020 at her residence. She was born February 3, 1934 in Fulton to Dr. John Robert Wade, Jr. and Vera Robinson Wade. A retired secretary at Grove Hill Memorial Hospital, she was also a member at Bassett Creek Baptist Church. She enjoyed watching Bill Gaither videos, reading and...

Annie Loper

Annie Loper

Jun 19, 2020

Annie Grace Loper, 98, of Fruitdale, passed away Friday, June 19, 2020 at Washington County Hospital. She was born January 18, 1922 in Cullumburg to Lemon Bowen Underwood and Lola Mae Hartley Underwood. A member of Four Points Baptist Church, she had been employed as a seamstress with Vanity Fair. She was a hard-working woman who enjoyed gardening, cooking and...

Carolyn Pierce

Carolyn Pierce

Jun 19, 2020

Carolyn Faye Pierce, 76, of Deer Park, passed away Friday, June 19, 2020 at her residence. She was born in Leakesville, MS to Percy and Audrey Middleton on July 22, 1943. She enjoyed hunting, fishing, traveling the United States and spending time with her family. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, John Wayne Pierce; son, Jerry Pierce...

Virginia Cauley

Virginia Cauley

Jun 18, 2020

Dr. Virginia Elizabeth Cauley, 88, passed away June 18, 2020 at Azalea Trace Nursing Home in Pensacola, FL due to complications of the COVID virus. She was born in Barlow Bend on October 24, 1931 to Earl Leon and Virginia Flinn Cauley, the third of four children. She loved her brothers, Carl, Robert and Clyde, all of whom preceded her...

Sarah Smith

Sarah Smith

Jun 17, 2020

Sarah Lou Jones Smith, 85, of Jackson, passed away Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at her residence surrounded by family. She was born in Crystal, Indiana on September 7, 1934 to Perry and Iva Jones. She had been employed as a seamstress and clerk with local dry-cleaning establishments. She was a member of the Old South Antique Car Club and...

Tommie Knapp

Tommie Knapp

Jun 16, 2020

Tommie Irene Knapp, 71, of Saraland, passed away Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at her residence. She was born in Hawthorn on November 24, 1948 to Lewis and Irene Parnell. She retired as a credit representative and customer service agent with J&J Furniture. She enjoyed professional and college football and baseball, crossword puzzles and watching television. Her greatest joy, however, was...

Erwin Tillman

Erwin Tillman

Jun 13, 2020

Erwin Eugene Tillman, Jr. 77, of Leroy, passed away Saturday, June 13, 2020 at Mobile Infirmary. He was born in Mobile on December 24, 1942 to Erwin E. Tillman, Sr. and Etta Elase Hudson Tillman. He was a member of Jackson First Assembly of God. A veteran of the U.S. Air Force, he was a member of the West Mobile...

Terry Cartwright

Terry Cartwright

Jun 12, 2020

Terry L. Cartwright, 68, of Fruitdale, passed away Friday, June 12, 2020 at his residence. He was born in Yellow Pine on March 12, 1952 to Chess and Nancy Cartwright. A family man, he also enjoyed spending time fishing, mowing grass and mechanic work. He was a retired truck driver who used the CB handle “Easy Money.” He was preceded...

Margarette Smith

Margarette Smith

Jun 6, 2020

Margarette Ann Smith, 85, of Jackson, passed away Saturday, June 6, 2020 at her residence. She was born in Grove Hill on November 1, 1934 to William “Sam” James and Mary Lou Odom James. She retired with the credit bureau in Houston, TX and was a member of Antioch Baptist Church. She enjoyed reading and window shopping. She was preceded...

Marion Bumpers

Marion Bumpers

Jun 5, 2020

Marion “Bumpy” Bumpers, 93, of Grove Hill, passed away Friday, June 5, 2020 at Jackson Medical Center. She was born in Selma on August 6, 1926 to Robert Albert Bumpers and Martha Williams Bumpers, both of who preceded her in death. Although she never married or had any children of her own, Bumpy dedicated her life to teaching children...

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