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New Albany, MS Obituaries
Local Obituaries for New Albany, MS, Union County, & Surrounding Areas
Douglas Wayne Decker
Jan 30, 2022
Douglas Wayne Decker, 76, died Sunday, January 30, 2022, at Baptist Memorial Hospital, Union County, in New Albany. Mr. Decker was born in Benton County, on September 7, 1945, the son of Arthur and Vennie Decker. He was a member of Bethesda Baptist Church and had been a factory employee. His hobbies were gardening and playing the guitar. Survivors include...
Kenneth Wayne Page
Jan 23, 2022
Kenneth Wayne Page, 62, died Sunday, January 23, 2022, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County in New Albany. Kenneth was the son of Alonzo Washington and Mae Ardellar Fish Page, born February 8, 1959, in New Albany. He was a member of Victory Life Center, and a retired Waste Water Maintenance Technician for the City of New Albany. Kenneth was a...
James Newton Verrell
Jan 20, 2022
James Verrell, 76, died Thursday, January 20, 2022, at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo. He was born May 25, 1945, in Union County, Mississippi, the son of James K. and Marie Howard Verrell. Mr. Verrell was a veteran of the U. S. Army, a Baptist, and was a retired roofer. Survivors include three brothers, John Verrell (Jackie), Mike Verrell (Cheryl),...
Delitha Elizabeth Irvin
Jan 9, 2022
Delitha Irvin, 57, was born on March 12, 1964, in Baldwyn, Mississippi, the daughter of Cecil and Patricia Ann Malone. She departed life on earth on Sunday evening at NMMC, in Pontotoc. Mrs. Irvin was of the Pentecostal faith and had been a seamstress in furniture manufacturing during her working career. Survivors include her husband, Charles David Irvin of Pontotoc;...
Jo Ann Butts
Dec 29, 2021
Jo Ann Butts, 76, died Wednesday, December 29, 2021, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford. She was born on August 28, 1945, in Sledge, Mississippi, to Huey and Zera Mc Donald. Mrs. Butts had been of the Pentecostal faith and was a homemaker. Survivors include five sons, Huey Hester of Vernon, AL, Jeff Hester of Satsuma, AL, James Hester of...
Peggy Joyce Mathis
Dec 20, 2021
Peggy Joyce Mathis, 84, passed away on Monday, December 20, 2021, at Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth. She was born in Myrtle on April 20, 1937, the daughter of Quitman and Edith Eloise Duncan Thomas. Mrs. Thomas was a Baptist and had been a social worker with Experience Works. Survivors include her husband of sixty-four years, Jack Mathis, Sr....
Shirley Carson Wilson
Dec 3, 2021
Shirley Wilson, 83, died Friday, December 3, 2021, at the home of her daughter, Patricia Roberts. Mrs. Wilson was born April 5, 1938, at Blue Mountain, Mississippi, the daughter of Robert and Ruth Luna Carson. She was a Baptist and attended Anchor Holds church. Her hobbies included quilting and writing poetry. Survivors include three daughters, Karen Lang, and husband, Billy,...
William Edward Day
Nov 24, 2021
William Edward "Ed" Day, 87, died at his residence on Wednesday, November 24, 2021. Mr. Day was born October 7, 1934, in the Cornersville Community, the son of Otis and Estella Hudson Day. He made his home in Memphis until his retirement, and was a production foreman at Sonoco. Mr. Ed was also a veteran of the U. S. Army...
Bobbie Dell Goolsby
Oct 24, 2021
Bobbie Dell Goolsby, 81, was born June 3, 1940, in New Albany, the daughter of Rollie and Eula Dee Pickens. She departed this life at New Albany Health and Rehab on Sunday, October 24, 2021. Mrs. Goolsby was a member of Bethlehem Methodist Church, and had been a cashier for Wal Mart for thirty years. She was the widow of...
Wilma Hayes Weeden
Oct 17, 2021
Wilma Hayes Weeden, 85, died Sunday, October 17, 2021, at her residence. She was born June 28, 1936, in Union County, Mississippi, the daughter of Paul and Birdie Roberts Rakestraw. Mrs. Weeden was a member of Center Baptist Church, had been a garment factory employee, and enjoyed sewing, baking, and studying her Bible. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday,...
Landon Clay Woodson
Sep 25, 2021
Landon Clay Winfield Woodson, 16, died Saturday, September 25, 2021, at Lebonheurs Childrens Hospital in Memphis. Landon was born May 9, 2005, in New Albany, the son of Clay Woodson and Tracie Foster Young. He was a sophomore at North Pontotoc High School and was a member of the football team. He enjoyed working on antique cars. Landon was a...
John Wayne Hill
Sep 4, 2021
John Wayne Hill, of Pinedale Community in Etta, Mississippi, at the age of 84, entered his enternal home on Saturday, September 4, 2021, at New Albany Health and Rehab, surrounded by his family after an extended battle with lung cancer. Mr Hill was born March 22, 1937, in Lone Star Communtiy, Union County, Mississippi, to John Washington and Ruby Lee...
Barbara E Mardis
Aug 30, 2021
Barbara Etoy Mardis, 72, a New Albany native, passed away in her home on Monday, August 30, 2021. She was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on March 14, 1949, to Travis and Jewel Rakestraw. She is survived by her husband, Charles Mardis, her five children, Terry Mardis, Steven Mardis, Mark Mardis, Kevin Mardis, and Kathy Mardis. She is also survived...
Noah Lane Hudson
Aug 14, 2021
Noah Lane Hudson was born August 14, 2021 and called home to be with the Lord on August 14, 2021. Noah was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Austin and Mendee Hudson. He was preceded in death by his grandpaw, Jack Alan Hudson, and his great-grandmother, Patricia Williams. He is the grandson of Rita Hudson of Myrtle, and Mr. and...
James K Ponder
Aug 9, 2021
James K Ponder, 87, died Monday at Baptist Memorial Hospital in New Albany. Mr. Ponder was born December 28, 1933, near Stuttgart, Arkansas, the son of Carl and Lucy Artente Hanke Ponder. Mr. Ponder was a tree surgeon and a Christian. Survivors include three sons, Byron Ponder of Dardenelle, Arkansas, Jeffrey Ponder, and Ronnie Ponder of Myrtle; five daughters, Connie...
William Clinton Little
Aug 7, 2021
In our most loving memory of William Clinton Little, who went to be with our Heavenly Father on August 7, 2021: Clinton was born on November 19, 1949, in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, to the late William Roscoe Little and Ruth Jones Little. He lived in Ingomar, Mississippi, and is survived by his two daughters, Beverly Lang (husband, Billy Lang) and...
Larry Wayne Lewis
Jul 2, 2021
Larry Wayne Lewis, 53, departed life on this earth on Friday, July 2, 2021, at his residence. Larry was born, the son of Detroy and Myrtle Moody Lewis, in Shands Hospital in New Albany, Ms, on April 13, 1968. Larry was loved by all who knew him. He was of the Baptist faith. Survivors include, his brother and care giver,...
Zana Faye Carnell
Jun 13, 2021
Faye Carnell, 79, passed away on Sunday, June 13, 2021, at North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born July 1, 1941, in New Albany, the daughter of Roscoe and Evelyn Renfrow Edwards. Mrs. Carnell was a member of Northside Baptist Church and was a housewife, who enjoyed her time with her family and tending her flowers. She was the widow...
Ellanor Kay Little
Jun 8, 2021
Ellanor Kay Little, 68, died Tuesday, June 8, 2021, at her residence in the Pinedale Community. She was born February 8, 1953, in Union County, the daughter of Q. V. and Mamie Payne Hill. Mrs. Little was a member of Moss Hill Baptist Church, and she had been a housewife, enjoying her flowers, her vegetable gardening, quilt making, and spending...
Dustin Lee Greer
May 19, 2021
Dustin Lee Greer, 43, died on Wednesday, May 19, 2021, at Baptist Hospital, East, in Memphis, Tennessee, after a sudden illness. He was born October 28, 1977, in Water Valley, Mississippi, the son of Roger and Donna Nix Greer. Dustin was a master sheet metal worker employed in the HVAC trade. He was a member of Real Life Church in...
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