Obituaries

May 13, 2017

Mrs. Josie Chandler Baker, 96, died Saturday, May 13, 2017 at her residence surrounded by her family and love ones. Josie was born August 27, 1920 to the parents of the late Abb and Minnie Mae Smith Chandler. She was a seamstress for Seminole, homemaker, devoted mother and a very good cook for her family. She was a member...

May 2, 2017

Chad Joseph Dauzat, 35 of Belden, Mississippi passed away on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, at his home in Belden, Mississippi. Born Tuesday, September 8, 1981 in Thibodaux, Louisiana, he was the son of George Dauzat and the late Shirlene LeJuene Johnson. He was a graduate of Vardaman High School class of 2001. He served as a SSG in the...

Apr 25, 2017

Jimmy  Ray Griffin, 71 of Houlka, Mississippi passed away on Tuesday, April 25, 2017, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford, MS. Jimmy Ray was retired from Calhoun County District 2, Maintenance Department as a truck driver operator. Born Monday, June 4, 1945, in Calhoun county, MS. he was the son of the late Joseph Griffin and the late Janet...

Apr 24, 2017

Myrtle Barefield, 100 of Bruce, Mississippi passed away on Monday, April 24, 2017, at Bruce Community Living Center in Bruce, Mississippi. Born Sunday, December 31, 1916 in Rocky Mount, Community, she was the daughter of the late Floyd Sartin and the late Lonie Logan Sartin. She was the wife of the late Hubert Barefield. She was a member of...

Apr 24, 2017

Jeania Branum

Bruce-Jeania Branum 89 widow of Charles Edwin Branum passed away April 24, 2017 in Bruce Community Living Center. She was born in Bruce on April 8, 1928 to the late Hilton and Jewel Johnson Jenkins.

She resided in Memphis, Tenn. Many years and returned to Bruce December 2011. Ms. Branum was a member...

Apr 20, 2017

Alfred Wesley Parker, 85, went to his heavenly home in Big Creek surrounded by loved ones. He was born October 15, 1931 in Big Creek. Alfred was the son of the late Tom Hill and Imogene Walton Parker of Big Creek. He was a director in both Farm Bureau and Federal Land Bank, a lifelong land owner, farmer, cattleman,...

Apr 18, 2017

Mabel Lorette Collins, 95 died on Tuesday, April 18, 2017, at Rosewood Assisted Living in Belden, Mississippi. Born Wednesday, July 13, 1921 in Calhoun City, Mississippi, she was the daughter of the late Rufus A. Harville and the late Jennie Roberson Harville. She was the wife of the late L.D. Collins. Also preceded by two brothers, Johnny Harville, and...

Apr 17, 2017

Ronald Barrett Gordon, 68 of Memphis, Tennessee died on Monday, April 17, 2017, at VA. Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee. Born Friday, February 4, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois, he was the son of the late William Barrett "Bill" Gordon and the late Lorene Carter Gordon. Ron was an Actor, and had been performing on area stages for nearly thirty...

Apr 11, 2017

Ronald Harville, 60 of Big Creek, Mississippi died on Tuesday, April 11, 2017, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo, Mississippi. Born Thursday, August 2, 1956 in Jackson, Mississippi, he was the son of the late Herbert Harville and Dorothy McCormick Harville. He was the husband of Brenda Rogers  Harville. He was a national sales manager for Med Lift....

Apr 7, 2017

Vida Mae Weir died Friday, April 7 th at the North Mississippi Medical Center after a brief illness. She was born on April 6, 1938 in Bruce, Mississippi. She was a graduate of Bruce High School, and a member of First Baptist Church of Bruce.

She owned and operated Vida Fluff’s Beauty Salon. She was a devoted...

Apr 6, 2017

Wilma June Ivy, 65 of Bruce, Mississippi died on Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Pontotoc County, MS. Born Thursday, January 24, 1952 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, she was the daughter of the late Luther L. Loften and the late Viola Irene Haye Loften. She was the widow of the late Larry Leon Ivy and Odis Boyle. June was a loving...

Apr 3, 2017

April Denise Galloway, 36 of Vardaman, Mississippi died on Monday, April 3, 2017, at Piedmont Hospital in Newman, Georgia. Born Friday, October 24, 1980 in Grenada, Mississippi, she was the daughter of the late William Sherman Haire and the late Edna Martin Haire. She was the wife of Benjamin Galloway. She was a devoted mother and homemaker and a...

Apr 2, 2017

Darren Leon Collins, 48 of Deatsville, Alabama, formally of Bruce, Mississippi passed away on Sunday, April 2, 2017 at his home.

Darren was born September 19, 1968 in Oxford, Mississippi. He was a graduate of Calhoun Academy and attended Mississippi State University.  He then graduated from Bolivar Aviation Flight School in Bolivar,TN.  He went on to become...

Mar 25, 2017

David Bailey, 89, of Bruce, MS, died Saturday, March 25, 2017, at Baptist Memorial Hospital - North MS in Oxford, MS. He was born of February 23, 1928 in the Loyd Community in Calhoun County, MS.

He was baptized in the Loyd Methodist Church at an early age. He moved his letter to the Bruce United Methodist...

Mar 24, 2017

Mr. Harold Wayne King passed away on March 24, 2017 at The State Veterans Home in Oxford, Mississippi at the age of 91. He was born February 20, 1926 in Paris, Mississippi to the parents of  Effie Mae Williams King and Abb King. He served during WWII in the U.S. Marines after serving his country he came home to...

Mar 24, 2017

Betty Sue McCain, 67 of Water Valley, Mississippi passed away surrounded by her family on Friday, March 24, 2017, at Oxford Health Care and Rehabilitation Center in Oxford, Mississippi. Born Tuesday, December 20, 1949 in Banner, Mississippi, she was the daughter of the late Cleatus Reid Miller and the late Betty Sims Miller. Betty was a graduate of Bruce...

Mar 20, 2017

Trisha Ann Sparrow, 67 of Calhoun City, Mississippi died on Monday, March 20, 2017, at her residence in Calhoun City, Mississippi. Born Tuesday, January 10, 1950 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, she was the daughter of the late James Felix Nelson and the late Catherine Wortham Nelson. Trisha attended Mt. Comfort Baptist Church. She was a former Teacher's Assistant, Bank Teller...

Mar 15, 2017

Clovis Harold Logan, 70 of Pittsboro, Mississippi went to his heavenly home on Wednesday, March 15, 2017, at his home in Pittsboro, Mississippi. Born Saturday, November 9, 1946 in Pittsboro, Mississippi, he was the son of the late George Logan and the late Della McGregor Logan. He was a retired welder from the Haworth Seating Plant in Bruce MS,...

Mar 14, 2017

Hattie Clark Morgan, 96, a native of Calhoun City, Mississippi and a resident of Mobile, passed away peacefully at her residence on March 14, 2017. She was preceded in death by her husband, Fairlee Morgan; her parents, Sim and Effie Clark; and her siblings, Opie, Jeanette, Smithy, Pearl, Sue, Tootsie, and Lilea. her son Terry L. Morgan She is...

Mar 13, 2017

Louise K. Smith, 96 of Bruce, Mississippi passed away on Monday, March 13, 2017, at Baptist Memorial Health Care Nursing Home in Calhoun City, Mississippi.

The family will receive friends from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM on Wednesday, March 15, 2017, at Parker Memorial Funeral Home, 476 hwy 9n, Bruce, Mississippi.

A Funeral service will...