Obituaries for Friday, May 9, 2003
By Staff
Educator
JACKSON Services for Bonnie Lee Russell Kyles will be held today at 11 a.m. at Anderson United Methodist Church in Jackson. Burial will be in Garden Memorial Park Cemetery. Lakeover Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Kyles, 60, of Jackson, died Sunday, May 4, 2003, in Jackson.
She was born April 11, 1943, to the late Tommy and Pearl Russell in Lexington. She was one of eight children. She was married to John Kyles. She attended elementary school at Mt. Olive School and graduated high school at the Tchula Attendance Center in 1962. She received her bachelor's degree in elementary education in 1972 from Jackson State University. Her elementary teaching career has been in the Jackson Public Schools, where her last years were spent as a third grade teacher at George Elementary.
She confessed Christ as her savior at an early age at the Sweet Canaan Church of God in Christ under the pastorate of Elder Pleas.
Survivors include her daughter, Monica C. Kyles Smith and her husband, Joseph Smith; granddaughters, Jessica C'Lita Smith and Kyla Clare Smith, all of Jackson; sisters, Dorothy Hatcher, Earnestine Russell, both of Jackson and Clara Godine and her husband, Joseph, of Meridian; two brothers, Roy Russell of Jackson and DeVal Russell and his wife, Monica, of Panama City, Fla.
She was preceded in death by her parents and two siblings.
Logger and wood hauler
PHILADELPHIA Services for Charles Bland will be held today at 2 p.m. at McClain-Hays Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. James Young officiating. Burial will be in Hester Cemetery in Neshoba County.
Mr. Bland, 57, of the House Community, died Tuesday, May 6, 2003, in Neshoba County. He was a native and lifelong resident of the House Community in Neshoba County. He was a member of Antioch Baptist Church in House.
Survivors include his wife, Rita Bland of House; daughters, Sherry Rutledge and Teresa Smith, both of House; step-daughter, Anita Caryn Lott; step-sons, M.E."Bubba" Cumberland and John D. Cumberland, all of Gulfport; nine grandchildren; sisters, Juanice Harper, Iva Hurtt, Joyce Hill and Jeanette Chaney, all of Collinsville and a brother, Joe Bland, of Collinsville.
He was preceded in death by his former wife, Carolyn Blackstock Bland; his parents, T.J. and Ruth Bland and a brother, Henry Bland.
Homemaker
Services for Estola Bailey will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Ebenezer Baptist Church with the Rev. Sampson Matthews officiating. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery with Berry and Gardner Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Bailey, 95, of Meridian, died Tuesday, May 6, 2003, at Beverly Healthcare-Broadmoor Center.
Survivors include her adopted son, Marshall Jones of South Belle, Mich.; a daughter, Maxie Holmes of Satsuma, Ala., and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, and her husband.
Visitation will be today from 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. at the funeral home.
Retired school teacher
UNION Services for Thelma McBeath will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at Neshoba Baptist Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery with Stephens Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Miss McBeath, 89, of Union, formerly of Neshoba, died Thursday, May 8, 2003, at Heartfelt Hospice of Lairds Hospital in Union. She taught school for 40 years, 20 in Neshoba County and the last 20 years in Jackson Public Schools. She loved music and was church organist in the Neshoba Baptist Church for many years.
Survivors include her sister, Ruth Mills and her husband, Robert, of Union; two sisters-in-law, Renate Crenshaw Harris of Camden, Ala.; and Audrey McBeath of Union; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her sister, Doris Rhodes, two brothers, John and Frank Allen "Sonny" McBeath, and her parents, Harris McBeath and Ruby McBeath Crenshaw and her step-father, Frank Anderson Crenshaw.
Visitation will be Saturday from 6 p.m.- 8 p.m. at the funeral home and 30 minutes prior to the service at the church.
Arrangements were incomplete at James F. Webb Funeral Home for Lorene Hurst McNeil, 85, of Fort Worth, Texas, who died Thursday, May 8, 2003, in Fort Worth.
