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10:20 pm Friday, January 2, 2004

Obituaries for Friday, Jan. 2, 2004

By Staff
Infant
HEIDELBERG Services for Olivia Grace Vega will be held today at 11:30 a.m. at Philadelphia United Methodist Church in Heidelberg with the Rev. Mark Covington officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Memory Chapel Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Infant Vega, 4 days, of Meridian, died Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2003 at University Medical Center in Jackson.
Survivors include her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Chadley Thomas Vega of Meridian; a sister, Anna Katherine Vega of Meridian; paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Vega of Oxford; and maternal grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. Homer Burns of Brandon.
Pallbearers will be Dale Adkins, Randy Parrish, Arden Oakes and Wyatt Rogers,
Homemaker
Services for Lenora Wolf Callahan will be held today at 2 p.m. at Union Baptist Church with the Revs. Ed Griffin, John Edwards and Greg Massey officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Stephens Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Callahan, 88, of Ridgeland, died Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2003, in Madison. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Ridgeland.
Survivors include her husband of 66 years, Harvey Callahan of Ridgeland; a daughter, Gayle Webster and her husband, Everett, of Meridian; a son, Tommy Callahan of Madison; four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren; a sister, Rose Baggett and a brother, Louis Wolf, both of Meridian.
She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Mollie Wolf; sisters, Inez Reese, Oneal Wolf and Florine Miller; brothers, Edgar Wolf, the Rev. James Wolf and the Rev. Wilma Wolf.
Pallbearers will be Kenneth Baggett, Russell Jarman, Bo Reese, Johnny Faucette, John Myers and Kevin Harper.
Honorary pallbearers will be members of First Baptist Church of Ridgeland.
Services for Alice Faye Dewitt Ulfers will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Barham Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Jimmy Harrison officiating. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Mrs. Ulfers, 63, of Meridian, died Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2003, in Meridian. She was a member of Bonita United Methodist Church and worked many years at Kay's Dress Shop.
Survivors include her husband, Joe Ulfers of Meridian; a daughter, Laura Rodda and her husband, Mike, of Dallas; grandchildren, Reagan Rodda and Morgan Rodda; her mother, Ulmalee Dodge and her husband, Mike, of Meridian; her mother-in-law, Edwina Ulfers of New Orleans; step-sons, Kirt Ulfers and Keith Ulfers, both of New Orleans; sisters, Dot Peavy and her husband, Charles, of Meridian and Carolyn Porter and her husband, Andy, of Dallas.
She was preceded in death by her father, Benard Dewitt; and a brother, Bubba Dewitt.
Visitation will be today 5 p.m.-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
D&E Construction Company employee
GULFPORT Services for Charlie Martin Jr. will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at Long Branch Missionary Baptist Church in West. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Hartwell's Christian Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Martin, 60, of Meridian, died Saturday, Dec. 27, 2003, in Meridian.
Survivors include his wife, Bettye L. Peters Martin of Meridian; daughters, Connie Peters and her husband, David, Sherry Amos, Sharon McCoy and Lanetta Blanks, all of Meridian; brothers, Preston Martin of Durant and Johnny Stovall and his wife, Diane, of Freeport, Ill.; sisters, Mary Frances Johnson, Juanita Thurmond and her husband, Van, and Doris Ellis, all of Freeport, and Johnnie Mae Spratling of Durant; nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be Saturday one hour prior to the service at the church.

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