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     By  Staff Reports Published 
    11:16 pm Sunday, November 10, 2002

    Obituaries for Sunday, Nov. 10, 2002

    By Staff
    BILLY REX HENRY
    Retired butcher
    UNION Services for Billy Rex Henry will be held today at 2 p.m. at Milling Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. Chris Shelton and Charles Skinner officiating. Burial will be in Union City Cemetery.
    Mr. Henry, 71, of Union, died Friday, Nov. 8, 2002, at his home. He was an active member of Union First Presbyterian Church.
    Survivors include his wife, Kathlene Henry, a step-daughter, Kayla Parks, three grandchildren, Mary Katherine Grace Parks, William Louis Cumberland and Hope Marie Cumberland, all of Union; and several other relatives and friends.
    The family requests memorials be made in lieu of flowers to Palmer Children's Home at P.O. Box 746 Columbus, MS, 39703-9983.
    Visitation will be today from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. at the funeral home.
    HUEY ROY LAMBERT
    Lockheed assembler
    QUITMAN Services for Huey Roy Lambert will be held today at 2 p.m. at Wright's Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. Jim Arnold and Myrtle Carney officiating. Burial will be in Antioch Cemetery.
    Mr. Lambert, 69, of Quitman, died Friday, Nov. 8, 2002, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
    Survivors include his wife, Evon Lambert, and a son, Greg Woods, both of Quitman; two daughters, Holly Wilson of Meridian; and Tywanna Lambert of Quitman; a brother, Harold Lambert of Pensacola, Fla.; two sisters, Willow Dean Christian and Sylvia Stewart, both of Quitman; two granddaughters, Casey Morris of Meridian; and Chasity Hamrick of Quitman; two great-granddaughters, Bayley Morris of Meridian; and Victoria Hamrick of Quitman.
    OTIS MCELHENNEY
    Truck driver
    Hodgenville, Ky. Graveside services for Otis McElhenney will be held today at 3 p.m. at the Sulphur Springs Cemetery in Franklin. Bennett-Bertram Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
    Mr. McElhenney, 68, of Hodgenville, formerly of Decatur, Miss., died Thursday, Nov. 7, 2002 at the Hardin Memorial Hospital in Elizabethtown. He was a truck driver and avid fisherman.
    Survivors include his special companion, Virginia Sherroan of Hodgenville; two sisters, Macie L. Roberson of Toomsuba, Miss.; and Mattie Helen Goss of Morton, Miss.; and four brothers, Clinton McElhenney and Bob McElhenney, both of Laurel, Miss.; John McElhenney of Vicksburg, Miss.; and D.R. McElhenney of Brooksville, Miss.
    He was preceded in death by his parents, John George and Willie Pearl Barnes McElhenney, and three brothers, Odell McElhenney, Coy McElhenney and Alton McElhenney.
    MINNIE WALLACE THOMPSON
    Housewife
    BUTLER,Ala. Services for Minnie Wallace Thompson will be held Monday at 10 a.m. at Bumpers Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery.
    Mrs. Thompson, 71, of Chickasaw, died Friday, Nov. 8, 2002, in Eight Mile.
    Survivors include sons, Donald Wayne Thompson of Eight Mile; James Edward Thompson of Chunchula; and Johnny Ray Thompson of Irvington; sisters Mildred Little of Leroy; and Mary Ruth Stewart of Gilbertown; brothers, Jimmy Wallace of Leroy; Oscar Wallace of Butler; Robert Wallace of Saraland; and Sammy Wallace of Leroy; 16 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
    Visitation will be today from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. at the funeral home.
    FRANCES P'OLA MOSLEY
    Housewife
    QUITMAN Services for Frances P'Ola Mosley will be held Monday at Knight's Valley Baptist Church with the Revs. C.C. Burns and George Anderson officiating. Burial will be in Goodwater Cemetery with Wright's Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
    Mrs. Mosley, 99, of Vossburg, died Friday, Nov. 8, 2002, at Azalea Meadows Personal Care in Pachuta.
    Survivors include a son, Ralph E. Mosley of Warner Robbins, Ga.; two sisters, Irma Jeardron of New Orleans; and Gladys Turnage of Winnsboro, La.; four grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
    She was preceded in death by her husband, Clyde Carlisle Mosley and her daughter Frances Clyde Watson.
    Visitation will be today from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. at the funeral home.
    ROMA ETHRIDGE NORMAN
    Homemaker
    McCOMB Graveside services for Roma Ethridge Norman will be held Monday at 12:30 p.m. at Hollywood Cemetery with the Revs. Dr. David Millican and Ted Bowlin officiating. Catchings Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
    Mrs. Ethridge, 92, of Marion, died Saturday, Nov. 9, 2002, at Guardian Nursing Home in Marion.
    Survivors include two brothers, Kenneth Ethridge of Meridian; and Murry Ethridge of New Bern, North Carolina; two sisters, Louise E. Sanders of Meridian; and Eunice E. Poole of Canton; and several nieces and nephews.
    She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, William Norman, one brother and five sisters.
    Visitation will be Monday from 11 a.m. – noon at the funeral home.
    CLIFTON VAUGHN
    SEBASTOPOL Services for Clifton Vaughn will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Bogue Chitto Facility Building with the Rev. Emmett Denson and Doby Henry officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery with Milling Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
    Mr. Vaughn, 77, of Philadelphia, died Saturday, Nov. 9, 2002, at Hospice In His Hand. He worked for the bureau of Indian affairs in the road department.
    Survivors include seven daughters, Lorena Alex, Earline Hickman, Judy Thompson, Rosalie Bell, Betty Phillips, Nancy Vaughn and Pauline Vaughn, six sons, Jimmy Lee Vaughn, Harry Vaughn, Harley Vaughn, Thomas Vaughn and Roger Vaughn, all of Philadelphia; and Vaughn of Halls, Tenn.; 36 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and several other relatives and friends.
    He was preceded in death by his wife, Renie Vaughn and a grandson, Jason Vaughn.
    Visitation will be after 9 a.m. at the family's home.

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