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10:42 pm Saturday, May 3, 2003

Obituaries for Saturday, May 3, 2003

By Staff
Super Stop employee
Services for Inell Moore will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at West Mt. Moriah Baptist Church with the Rev. Odell Hopkins officiating. Burial will be in Old West Mt. Moriah Cemetery. Berry &Gardner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Moore, 58, of Meridian, died Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at Riley Hospital. She was employed with Super Stop.
Survivors include her husband, Audie Moore of Meridian; a daughter, Andra Emerson and her husband, Kenny, of Meridian; a stepdaughter, Lorraine Temple and her husband, Eddie, of Newton; her mother, Margie Cole of Meridian; five sisters, Mary Cole of Los Angeles, Johnnie Hopson and her husband, Jimmie, Debra McAllister and her husband, Shed, and Margaret Cole, all of Meridian, and Sandra Cole of Erlanger, Ky.; three brothers, John Cole Jr., and his wife, Sylvia, Randolph Cole and David Cole, all of Meridian; and six grandchildren.
Visitation will be held Sunday from 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. at the funeral home.
Homemaker
Services for Doris Faye Branning Linton will be held Monday at 3 p.m. at James F. Webb Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. Roy Dabbs and Bill Webb officiating. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Mrs. Linton, 67, of Meridian, died Friday, May 2, 2003, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center. She was a member of Oak Grove Baptist Church in Meridian.
Survivors include four daughters, Kathy Dedwylder and her husband, Daryl, of Quitman, Gayle Thomas and her husband Ray, Debbie Dearman and her husband, Rocky, and Krist Lanterman and her husband, Terry, all of Meridian; grandchildren, Jason Dedwylder of Washington, D.C., Ben Dedwylder of Hattiesburg, Alicia King and her husband, George, Tara Thomas and Candace, John and Lindsey Dearman, all of Meridian; four great-grandchildren, Jessica Thomas, and Jacob, Joshua and Justin King, all of Meridian; her mother, Hazel W. Branning of Meridian; her sister, Linda Kinard of Meridian; her brother, Tommy Branning and his wife, Pat, of Clovis, Calif.; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, John W. Linton; and her father, B.C. Branning.
Pallbearers will be Daryl Dedwylder, Jason Dedwylder, Ray Thomas, George King, Michael Durham, Rocky Dearman, Terry Lanterman and Russell Carr.
Honorary pallbearers will be Ben Dedwylder, John Dearman, Daniel Lanterman, Jacob King, Joshua King and Justin King.
Visitation will be Sunday from 4 p.m.-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Arrangements were incomplete at James F. Webb Funeral Home for James W. "Jimmy" Stone Jr., 77, of Meridian, who died Friday, May 2, 2003, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
Arrangements were incomplete at James F. Webb Funeral Home for Ollie Yarbrough, 89, of Meridian, who died Friday, May 2, 2003, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
Arrangements were incomplete at James L. Osby Funeral Home for Anderson Chandler, 84, of Meridian, who died Thursday, May 1, 2003, at Benchmark Nursing Home.

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