Obituaries

Bit Strickland

Bit Strickland

Nov 8, 2024

Glenda ‘Bit’ Strickland passed away November 8, 2024 at her residence at the age of 66. She was born  March 20, 1958 in West Point, MS. 

She is survived by her son, Beau Strickland (Nikki) of Columbus; daughter, Brandi Law (Jason) of Colorado; her mother, Patricia Clinton; sisters, Vicki Busbin, Resa Hannah (Doug), Elen Williams (Tim); 3 grandchildren, Sara Grace Jones...

Mary Ward

Mary Ward

Oct 25, 2024

Mary Fern Ward passed away Friday October 25, 2024 at her residence at the age of 90. She was born March 25, 1934 to the late Noel Riley And Virgie Harpole Kornegay. She was a member of Siloam Baptist Church where she loved to sing in the church choir. She also enjoyed sewing and gardening. In her later years, she...

Alton Huffman

Alton Huffman

Oct 15, 2024

 

Alton Monroe Huffman passed away Tuesday October 15, 2024 at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle at the age of 79. He was born March 1, 1945 to the late Alton Newell and Viola Mae Gunther Huffman. He was a veteran of the US Army and served in Vietnam. He owned a trucking company and drove a truck doing long hauls for...

Katie Butler

Katie Butler

Oct 4, 2024

Katie Henry Butler, affectionally know to her grandchildren as ‘Grank’, passed away Friday October 4, 2024 at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle at the age of 88. She was born February 23, 1936 to the late Abb Morgan Henry and Mary Neely Vickers Henry. She loved Jesus and wanted to share him with everyone. Anyone who spent 5 minutes with her...

Alexia Cothren

Alexia Cothren

Sep 15, 2024

Our beloved Lexi tragically left us on Sunday September 15, 2024 in Fort Collins, CO. She was born October 25, 2000. Loved and missed by her mother, Susan Cothren of West Point, and her sister, Lillian Lejeune of Starkville. Lexi’s passion for crafts, reading, music and children touched all who knew her.

Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research...

Adelaide Fitzgerald

Adelaide Fitzgerald

Aug 31, 2024

Adelaide Yvonne Fitzgerald passed away Sunday August 31, 2024 at her residence in Prairie at the age of 60. She was born July 19, 1964 in West Point to the late Arvied ‘Buddy’ and Pauline Robertson Wilson. 

Graveside Services will be held at 11 AM Thursday September 5, 2024 at Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation with family and friends will be 10-10:45 Thursday...

Mary Frank White

Mary Frank White

Aug 22, 2024

Mary Frank McGee White passed away peacefully on Thursday, August 22, 2024 at her home with her son and daughter by her side. Mary Frank was born on September 23, 1928, to the late  Frank and Mary Evelyn Melton McGee of Pheba, Mississippi. After graduating from high school there, she attended Wood Junior College in Mathiston and Delta State in...

James Sumner

James Sumner

Aug 21, 2024

James Marion Sumner passed away Wednesday August 21, 2024 at NMMC-West Point at the age of 83. He was born October 24, 1940 in Chickasaw County to the late William and Mable Walters Sumner. He was the owner of C and S Auto Electric for 43 years. 

 He is survived by his wife, Faye Sumner of West Point; sons, Rusty Sumner...

Oneda McCuiston

Oneda McCuiston

Jul 26, 2024

Oneda Smith McCuiston passed away Thursday July 26, 2024, at NMMC-West Point. She was 95. She was born June 16, 1929 in Saltillo, MS to the late Frank Allen Smith and Mary Philpot Smith. She attended Sunflower Jr. College and graduated from Mississippi State University with a degree in Education in 1961. She taught business education in the Clay County...

Mickey Miller

Mickey Miller

Jul 8, 2024

C. M. Miller known as Mickey by his family and friends, passed away Monday July 8, 2024 at his residence at the age of 66. He was born August 10, 1957 in West Point, MS to Ann Phillips Miller and the late C. M. Miller. 

 Mickey worked at Bryan Foods for 19 years where he was over the shop and motor...

Julia Clark

Julia Clark

Jul 1, 2024

Julia Ann Sanders Clark, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend, passed away on July 1, 2024, at her home in West Point.

Judy loved her family fiercely. She is survived by her husband of 52 years, Jimmy Clark; two daughters, Kelly Clark Melton and husband Chuck of Woodstock, Georgia, and Kim Clark Bridges and husband Jonathan of Olive Branch, Mississippi;...

Velma Caskey

Velma Caskey

Jun 24, 2024

Velma Lee Gartin Caskey, passed away Monday, June 24, 2024, at North Mississippi Medical Center- West Point. She was 92. She was born Sept 30,1931 in West Point, MS. She was a graduate of West Point High School and attended Delta State University. She worked at First National Bank of West Point for 22 years before retiring as Manager of...

Barbara Loper

Barbara Loper

Jun 11, 2024

    Barbara Proctor Loper passed away on June 11, 2024 at West Point Community Living Center at the age of 84. She was born on September 17, 1939 to the late Carl Richard Proctor and Gertrude Edna Howard Proctor. 

     She is survived by her son, Eric Loper (Vicki) of Starkville; her daughter, Amy Duke (Billy) of West Point; sisters,...

Robert Smith

Robert Smith

Jun 8, 2024

 Robert Randolph Smith, Jr. passed away at his home in Suffolk, VA on June 8, 2024 with his loving wife at his side. He was born January 8, 1947 in Norfolk, VA. He met and married Martha Jane Boswell in 1967 and were happily married over 56 years. Robert served in the US Navy from 1964 until his retirement in...

Sherie Glusenkamp

Sherie Glusenkamp

Jun 8, 2024

Sherie Lee Terry Glusenkamp, 67, passed away on June 8, 2024 at her home in West Point, Mississippi. She was born on September 19, 1956 in Delaware to the late Ernest Franklin Terry and Shirley Belle Russell.  She was raised with her siblings at the Palmer Home for Children in Columbus, Mississippi.  

Sherie was a 1974 graduate of Caldwell High...

Herb Ingram

Herb Ingram

Jun 4, 2024

Herbert Ingram passed away June 4, 2024 at NMMC-Tupelo at the age of 86. He was born August 10, 1937 in Eupora to the late Hugh Ingram and Mary Elizabeth Hood Ingram. He graduated high school from Alva, MS. He was a career dairyman for Miller Brothers Dairy in West Point, MS and Barber’s Pure Milk Company Tupelo, MS. He...

John Fulgham

John Fulgham

Jun 3, 2024

John Lamar Fulgham passed away June 3, 2024 at his residence at the age of 84. He was born October 11, 1939 in West Point to the late Erma Edwards Fulgham and Curtis Floyd Fulgham. He served in the United States Navy and worked a short time in the Pentagon. John loved the outdoors, especially hunting, fishing, boating and spending...

Leslie Warren

Leslie Warren

May 24, 2024

Leslie Nicole Warren, loving wife and mother, born September 14, 1979 in Columbus, MS to the late Roger Swindol and Patricia Strobel Swindol. She peacefully left her life on this earth Friday, May 24, 2024 at Tupelo North Mississippi Medical Center at the young age of 44 with her husband, Matt, by her side. 

It was no surprise to her family...

Phyllis Koehn

Phyllis Koehn

May 22, 2024

  Our loving mother and grandmother, Phyllis Lou Becker Koehn, was born to Fred and Amanda Johnson Becker on September 28, 1933, in McPherson County, Kansas. She peacefully fell asleep surrounded by her family on May 22, 2024. She was 90 and a half years old. 

     Her childhood home was near her father's business, Becker's Feed Mill. She was...

Roger Hines

Roger Hines

May 15, 2024

Roger William Hines passed away Wednesday May 15, 2024 at his residence at the age of 77. He was born January 1, 1947 in St. Petersburg, FL to the late Paul Richard Hines and Virginia Gail Baker Hines. He worked as a service technician for Comcast for several years before his retirement. He was a US Army Veteran having served...

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