Obituaries for Friday, Dec. 19, 2003
By Staff
Services for Betty Jean Wallace Lofton will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Alpha and Omega Holiness Church in Toomsuba with the Bishop Freddie Ford officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Toomsuba.
Mrs. Lofton, 58, of Buffalo, N.Y., died Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2003, in her home.
Survivors include her husband, Earl Lofton Jr.; a son, Ronald Lofton; and two daughters, Sonya and Tiffany Lofton, all of Buffalo; two brothers, James Wallace and George Cole, both of Meridian; and a sister, Bernestine Hopson and her husband, Willie, of Toomsuba.
Visitation will be held from noon until 2 p.m. at the church.
Retired
Services for Anna C. Miller will be held Sunday at 1 p.m. at Alpha and Omega Holiness Church in Toomsuba with Bishop Freddie Ford officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Toomsuba. Clark's Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Miller, 95, of Toomsuba, died Friday, Dec. 12, 2003, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
Survivors include five sons, Earlie Miller and his wife, Lena, of Cuba, Ala., Louis Miller and his wife, Avis, and Charles Miller, all of Aurora, Ill., Johnny Miller of Gary, Ind., and Bobby Miller of Toomsuba; four daughters, Lillie Terrell and her husband, Justin, Ann Miller and Betty Jowers and her husband, Ted, all of Aurora and Mamie Brown and her husband, Raymond, of Toomsuba; 41 grandchildren; 107 great-grandchildren; and 15 great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband and her parents.
Visitation will be Saturday from 7 p.m.-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Graveside services for Jae Karanna Donald will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at Little Zion Cemetery in Stonewall with the Rev. Louis Johnson officiating. Berry &Gardner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Infant Donald of Quitman died Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2003, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
Survivors include the parents, Toccara Donald and Jeremy Jones.
Services for Mack White will be held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at St. Patrick Catholic Church with Father Elvin Sunds officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in the Zero community. James F. Webb Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. White, 64, of Meridian, died Thursday, Dec. 18, 2003, in his home.
Visitation will be Saturday from 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. at the church.
Services for Willie Dunnigan Jr., will be held Tuesday at 1 p.m. at Clark's Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Odell Hopkins officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Cemetery.
Infant Dunnigan, age 8 months, of Meridian, died Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2003, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
He was survived by his mother, Natalie Hearn; his father, Willie Dunnigan Sr.; two sisters, Wil'Quesha Dunnigan and Kalesha Hearn; his grandparents, Addie Dunnigan, Barbara Randle, Willie James Dunnigan and Willie Marshall Russell Jr., all of Meridian.
Visitation will be Monday from 6 p.m.-7 p.m. at the funeral home.
Arrangements were incomplete at Berry and Gardner Funeral Home for Robert Clayton, 61, of Meridian, who died Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2003, at Guardian Angel Hospice.
Arrangements were incomplete at Berry and Gardner Funeral Home for Odell Portis, 52, of Toomsuba, who died Thursday, Dec. 18, 2003, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
Arrangements are incomplete at Hampton Funeral Home for Pearlie Trussell, 100.
