Obituaries for Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2002

By Staff
ARTHUR JONES
Retired U.S. Air Force
Services for Arthur Jones will be held today at 3 p.m. at Mt. Bethel Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Darrell Flucker officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens with Enterprise Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Jones, 47, of Oklahoma City, died Thursday, Aug. 15, 2002, at Riley Hospital.
Survivors include his wife, Pearlie King Jones; brothers, Will Jones Jr. and his wife, Shirley, of Birmingham, Ala., Ronald Jones and his wife, Vanessa, of Meridian, Donald Jones and his wife, Demetria, of Nashville, Tenn., Elbert Jones of Birmingham, Kevin Wallace and his wife, Joanna, of Kemper, Glenn Wallace of Toomsuba, Robert Wallace of Kalamazoo, Mich., and Albert Wallace of Bronx, N.Y.; sisters, Sandra Jones, Geraldine Jones and her husband, Ray, of Meridian, Elizabeth Mosley and her husband, David, Phyllis Hall of Meridian, Michelle Wallace of Toomsuba and Essie Cole and her husband, Billy Ray, of Meridian.
GEORGIA D. HOLT
Retired
MARION, Ark. Graveside services for Georgia D. Holt will be held Friday at 10 a.m. at Crittenden Memorial Park. Family Funeral Care Summer Avenue Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Holt, 91, of Meridian, who died Monday, Aug. 19, 2002, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center. She was retired from South Central Bell Company.
Survivors include her stepdaughter, Margaret McCain of Memphis, Tenn.; and a stepson, Robert F. Holt of Meridian; five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Horace H. Holt.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.
ROOSEVELT EVANS SR.
Retired laborer
QUITMAN Services for Roosevelt Evans Sr. will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at Old Oak Grove Baptist Church in Quitman with the Rev. Ray Arrington officiating. Burial will be in Elwood Cemetery in Quitman with Turner Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Evans, 96, of Quitman, died Monday, Aug. 19, 2002, at Lakeside Living Center.
Survivors include his son, Kelvin Evans of Pensacola, Fla.; stepdaughters, Gwendolyn McGee of Quitman, Patricia Johnson and Debra Bryant of Maryland, and Vickie Dear of St. Louis; 11 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
He is preceded in death by his wife, Eartha Lee Evans; and a son, Roosevelt Evans Jr.
Visitation will be Thursday 6 p.m.-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
JEWEL A. HOOD
Homemaker
Services for Jewel A. Hood will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in the Zero Community with the Rev. Timothy Graham officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Berry and Gardner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Hood, 79, of Meridian, died Thursday, Aug. 15, 2002, at Benchmark Health Care Center.
Survivors include her husband, Sylvester Hood Sr.; four daughters, Shirley Fay White, Armetta Mae Hood, Mae Jewel Boyd and her husband, Neal, all of Meridian, and Peggy Lofton and her husband, Paul Kenneth, of Lancaster, Calif.; a stepdaughter, Minnie P. Reese and her husband, Ronald, of Broadview, Ill.; four sons, Sylvester Hood Jr., James Douglas Hood, Charlie Frank Hood, all of Meridian, and Ivery Hood and his wife, Yolanda, of Vacaville, Calif.; a half-brother, James Capers of Russell; 22 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by three children, her parents and three siblings.
Visitation will be Friday 6 p.m.-7 p.m. at the funeral home.
JAKARRIUS OWEN
Arrangements were incomplete at Berry and Gardner Funeral Home for Jakarrius Owen, 3, of Quitman, who died Sunday, Aug. 18, 2002, at H.C. Watkins Memorial Hospital.
MCDANIEL LARKIN
Arrangements were incomplete at Berry and Gardner Funeral Home for McDaniel Larkin, 51, of Meridian, who died Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2002, in his home.