Obituaries for Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2004

By Staff
Retired insurance salesman
Services for Otis P. Key will be held today at 1 p.m. at DeKalb Baptist Church with the Rev. James Ruffin officiating. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Memory Gardens Cemetery. Barham Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Key, 88, of DeKalb, died Monday, Feb. 9, 2004, at Guardian Angel Hospice. He was a member of DeKalb Baptist Church. He retired from Interstate Life Insurance Company and has farmed for the past 26 years.
Survivors include his daughter, Melinda Key Mahone of Cartersville, Ga.; grandchildren, Key Mahone of Dothan, Ala., Peter Mahone of Cartersville and Loraine Foster of Mobile, Ala.; great-grandchildren, Will Mahone, Graves Mahone, Jordan Mahone, Morgan Dover and Cade Foster.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Mildred Key, brothers, Webb Key, James Key, and Raymond Key; sisters, Lucille Sullivan and Ruby Jones.
Memorials may be made to DeKalb Baptist Church.
Pallbearers will be Mike Pilgrim, James Key Jr., Dewitt Key, Tommy Key, Harold Golden, Gene McArthur, Houston Jarvis and Ted Dixon. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Adult Men's Sunday school class of DeKalb Baptist Church.
Visitation will be today 30 minutes prior to the services at the church.
FOREST Graveside services for Jonathan David Kelley will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. at Unity Assembly of God Cemetery in Forest. Ott and Lee Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Kelley, 43, of Forest, died Monday, Feb. 9, 2004, at The G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery Veterans Hospital in Jackson. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.
Survivors include his mother, Hazel Lambert; brothers, Charles Kelley and James Bridges, both of Forest, and Monty Taylor of Sebastopol; sisters, Sandy Lucus of Atoka, Okla., Kathy Watkins of Lake, Ruth Fortenberry of Forest, Linda Daughtry of Texas and Marilynne Harvey of Forest.
He was preceded in death by his father, Otis Lee Kelley.
Visitation will be today 5 p.m.-9 p.m. at the funeral home.
Retired
Services for James C. "Buck" Caldwell will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. at Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church with the Revs. Alan Dearing and Lynn Anderson officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Barham Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Caldwell, 79, of Meridian, died Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004, at Riley Hospital.
He was a disabled veteran of the U.S. Army and served in World War II. He was an active member of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church and was an avid hunter and fisherman.
Survivors include his wife, Lucile Caldwell of Meridian; daughters, Gaynell Hudson and her husband, Bobby, of Oxford and Diane Myers and her husband, Harrell, of Meridian; a son, Jerry Caldwell and his wife, Linda, of Houston, Texas; grandchildren, Michael Myers, Chris Myers, Jeff Tingle, Sean Caldwell, Phillip Caldwell, John David Caldwell and Brad Ross and six great-grandchildren; brothers, Jack Caldwell and his wife, Clarice, of Meridian and Leo Caldwell and his wife, Marie, of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; a sister, Frances Culpepper and her husband, Bill, of Meridian and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Benny and Mary Lee Caldwell and a brother, Delma Caldwell.
Memorials may be made to Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church Building Fund.
Visitation will be today 5 p.m.-8 p.m. at the funeral home.