Martha Joyce Keen, 70, passed away Monday, February 11, 2020 at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, MS. A funeral service was held Friday, February 14 at Calvary Baptist Church in Durant with burial in Mizpah Cemetery.

Karl Oran Lamar Hunter passed away on Saturday, February 8, 2020, while residing at Durant Nursing Healthcare. Karl was a resident of Durant, MS for the past six years and was reared in the city of Grambling, LA.

Henry passed away peacefully at home in the early hours of February 6, 2020, surrounded by loved ones. Henry was born September 4, 1931 to parents Henry B. McNeese and Georgia Belle West McNeese. As the second of four children, Henry spent his childhood years in El Paso, TX. Those early years were a difficult…

Services for Mr. Muriel Bacon will be Friday, January 31, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. at Porter & Sons’ Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow at Greenlawn Cemetery. Visitation for Mr. Bacon will be held Thursday, January 30 from 3:00 until 6:00 p.m.

Sherry Ingold, 58, passed away Friday, January 24, 2020 at UMC in Jackson, Mississippi. Funeral services are 11:00 a.m. Thursday, January 30, 2020 at Culpepper Funeral Home in Kosciusko, MS. Burial will follow at the North Union Cemetery in Hesterville, MS. Visitation will be at Culpepper Funeral Home on Wednesday, January 29 from 4:00 p.m.…

Michael Martin, 44, passed away at his mother’s home in Yazoo City on Tuesday, January 14, 2020. Funeral services were held on Sunday, January 19 at Beulah Baptist Church in Lexington with burial in the church cemetery. Southern Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

On January 16, 2020, William Richard “W.R.” Martin left his friends and family to meet his Lord and Savior. If you are wondering if you ever met him, then you obviously didn’t, or you wouldn’t have forgotten him. He was a man who could tell stories that held everyone spellbound. He published his first and…

Charles Unger “Charlie” Donald, 89, passed away Thursday, January 9, 2020, after a gradual decline in his health.  Visitation was held Sunday, January 12 from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. at Southern Funeral Home in Lexington and Monday, January 13 at 1:00 p.m. at Goodman United Methodist Church. Services followed at 2:00 p.m. Charlie was born…

Frances Reid Melton, 97, passed away on Tuesday Jan. 7, 2020 at her residence in Morton, MS. She had lived in the Emory and the West Community before moving to Morton. Graveside services were held on Thursday, January 9, 2020 from the Emory Methodist Cemetery near West.