Obituaries for Tuesday, May 18, 2004

By Staff
Retired
Services for Sammie D. Bourrage will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Galilee Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Charlie Watson officiating. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Berry and Gardner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Bourrage, 90, of Meridian, died Sunday, May 16, 2004, at Beverly Healthcare Center. He was a graduate of T.J. Harris High School and T.J. Harris Junior College. He taught school in North Mississippi prior to his career as a porter for Southern Railroad. Mr. Bourrage was a Mason, and a lifelong member of Galilee Missionary Baptist Church where he served as Sunday school superintendent and chairman of the Deacon Board. He faithfully attended until his health declined.
Survivors include his children, Willie D. Bourrage and his wife, Nancy, and Patsy Wooten, all of Chicago, Shirley Burton and her husband, Carl, of Toomsuba, Deborah Stokes and her husband, Larry, of Collinsville, Douglas Bourrage and his wife, LaVern, Christine Naylor and her husband, David, all of Meridian, and Dessie Johnson and her husband, Winston, of Phoenix; a sister, Olamildred Hall of DeKalb; 12 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren; five brothers-in-law, Thomas Hodges and his wife, Alzata, Robert Hodges and Edward Hodges, all of Chicago, and Willie Smith of Detroit; sisters-in-law, Ola Bourrage of Meridian, Carrie Bourrage of DeKalb and Mary Hodges of Detroit.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Mattie Hodges Bourrage; his parents, Dee and Viola Bourrage; sisters, Alberta Stephens, Jennie Lou Westerfield, Fannie Rush and Edna Ruth Wright; and brothers, Jerry Bourrage and Ray Bourrage.
Visitation will be today 7 p.m.-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Homemaker
PHILADELPHIA Services for Audie Hardin will be held today at 11 a.m. at John E. Stephens Chapel with the Revs. Eddie Pilgrim and George Skelton officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Zion United Methodist Church Cemetery.
Mr. Hardin, 91, of Philadelphia, died Sunday, May 16, 2004, at Select Specialty Hospital in Jackson.
Survivors include her daughters, Sherry Essington of Flowood and Bobbie Thrash and her husband, Larry, of Sebastopol; sons, Don Hardin and his wife, Barbara, of Philadelphia, Charlie Hardin of Union, Wayne Hardin and his wife, Jackie, of Carthage and Larry Hardin of Carthage; 18 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren.
Retired farmer
PHILADELPHIA Services for Fred Holder will be held today at 11 a.m. at Hight Assembly of God with the Rev. Mackie Amacker officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery in Noxapater. McClain-Hays Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Holder, 85, of Noxapater, died Sunday, May 16, 2004, at Winston Medical Center in Louisville. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army Infantry and served in World War II in the South Pacific.
Survivors include his wife, Bobbye Holder and a daughter, Diane Parker, both of Noxapater; three grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Retired court reporter
BILOXI Graveside services for Addie P. "Cissy" Elliott Crenshaw will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Rosehill-Magnolia Cemetery. Howard Avenue Chapel of Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Crenshaw, 81, of D'Iberville, died Friday, May 14, 2004, in Biloxi. She was born on July 11, 1922 in Meridian, where she lived until moving to the Gulf Coast in 2000. She was a retired court reporter and a Presbyterian.
Survivors include her husband, Dal M. Crenshaw of Biloxi; a daughter, Carolyn Hemba of Ocean Springs; a son, Bill Elliott of Chattanooga, Tenn.; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her former husband, Edward Perry Elliott; her parents, Tom and Julia Peebles; and a sister, Mary Galusha.
Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Foundation of the South, Mississippi Division, 4803 Harrison Circle, Gulfport, MS 39507.
Pallbearers will be Bob Deen, Walter Eppes, Bill Gillespie, Bill Huff, Billy Riley, Alex Weddington, Hunter George Weddington and Ralph Young.
Retired University of Alabama employee
YORK, Ala. Graveside services for Milton Citron will be held today at 4 p.m. at Chestnut Grove Cemetery with the Rev. Dr. Bob Simmons officiating. Bumpers Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Citron, 87, of York, died Monday, May 17, 2004, in his home.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Rubye Lucille Citron.
Farmer
MACON Graveside services for Tyson "Doc" Cooper will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Soule Chapel Cemetery near Macon with the Revs. Jerry Zgarba and Jim Garner officiating. Cockrell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Cooper, 69, of Brooksville, died Monday, May 17, 2004, at Baptist Memorial Golden Triangle Hospital in Columbus.
Survivors include his daughters, Rhonda Hurt of Columbus, Marilyn Taylor of Lufkia, Texas, and Regina Warren of Flower Mound, Texas; sons, Eugene Cooper of Brooksville and Glen Cooper of Columbus; a step-daughter, Cindy McPherson of Mathiston; nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild; sisters, Mattie Teague Nelms of Decatur, Ala., and Jimmie Lou Ramsey of Macon; brothers, Bryant Cooper of Brooksville, Louis Cooper and Johnny Cooper, both of Macon.
He was preceded in death by sisters, Marie Gann and LaVada Moore; and brothers, Ben Cooper, Bill Cooper, Alfred Cooper and R.G. Cooper.
Visitation will be today 7 p.m.-9 p.m. at the funeral home.