Horace Lamar “Peck” Bouchillon, 93, died Sunday, March 17, 2019 at the North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Visitation was held from 12 noon until service time at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at the West Methodist Church.  Burial was in the West City Cemetery. Mr. Bouchillon was a 1943 graduate of West…

On Friday, March 15, 2019, Missionary Edna L. Bates transitioned to be with the Lord at 7:00 a.m. She was the wife of the late John E. Bates, Sr., and was the mother of eight children. Mrs. Bates became a longtime employee of Holmes County School District, where she worked in Food Services and with…

Virgie RutVirgie Ruth Hammett Murtagh of Pickens went to her heavenly home on Thursday, March 14, 2019. She died at Baptist Hospital in Jackson after a short illness. Ruth was born on December 7, 1939, to Dolph and Virgie Hammett of Lexington. Ruth graduated from Lexington High School in 1958. After graduation, she was employed…

Edward Earl “Ed” Cobb, 68, died Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at his home in West, MS. Visitation was held at 10:00 a.m. until service time at 11:00 a.m., Saturday, March 9, 2019 at Southern Funeral Home in Lexington.  Burial was in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Lexington. Ed was born in Belzoni, MS to Mae Sue…

Charles W. Burrell, 84, died Saturday, March 9, 2019 at Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, MS.  Funeral services were held at Southern Funeral Home in Durant.  Burial was in Brister Cemetery in West, MS.

Sis. Carrie Fannie Swanson, 98, formerly of Goodman, MS passed away on Sunday, February 17, 2019. A funeral service was held on Saturday, February 23 at The New Clyde Avenue Missionary Baptist Church in Memphis, TN with interment in Elwood Cemetery in Memphis.

Mr. Richard Kimes, 63, of Rankin County passed away in Jackson, MS of natural causes on Monday, February 25, 2019. A funeral service was held on Friday, March 1 at Hudson M.B. Church in West, MS with interment in Hudson Cemetery. Winters Funeral Home in Kosciusko handled the arrangements.

Mr. Napoleon Young, 63, of Tchula, MS passed away Sunday, March 3, 2019 at Greenwood Leflore Hospital in Greenwood, MS. Visitation will be held on Friday, March 8 from 1:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. at Century Hairston Funeral Home in Lexington, MS. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, March 9 at 1:00 p.m.…

Rev. Melzenia Reddex, 90, of Lexington passed on Monday, February 25, 2019. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, March 9, 2019 at 11:00 a.m  at Guiding Light COGIC in Lexington with burial immediately following at Greenlawn Cemetery, also in Lexington.  Visitation will be held Friday, March 8, 2019 from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.…