Obituaries for Monday, August 23, 2004
By Staff
QUITMAN Services for Edith Norsworthy Dearman will be held today at 3 p.m. at Montrose Baptist Church with the Revs. Roger Ivey, Hal Taylor and Dennis Coats officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Wright's Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Dearman, of Quitman, died Saturday, Aug. 22, 2004, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
Survivors include her sons, Russell Dearman and his wife, Cathy, of Bowling Green, Ky., Michael Dearman and Mitchell Dearman and his wife, Betty, all of Quitman; daughters, Betty Evans and her husband, James, Beth Robinson and her husband, Morris, all of Quitman and Charlotte Bronnenburg and her husband, Dale, of Hattiesburg; sisters, Dorothy Walker of Dallas and Eloise Fox of Austin, Texas; 17 grandchildren; 36 great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be today beginning at 1 p.m. until service time at the church.
Retired
HATTIESBURG Services for Maj. James Patrick Hughes Sr. will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Hattiesburg. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. Moore Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Maj. Hughes, 50, of Hattiesburg, died Thursday, Aug. 19, 2004, in Independence, Mo. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and retired after more than 26 years of service. He was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
Survivors include his parents, Jesse and Kathryn Hughes of Hattiesburg; a son, James Patrick Hughes Jr. and a daughter, Alice Liddell Hughes, both of Lansing, Kan.; sisters, Kathryn Moon of Stuart, Fla., Melissa Hodges of Hattiesburg, Amy Heilmeier and Mary Alice Bessette, both of Tampa, Fla.; brothers, J. Steven Hughes and Matthew Hughes, both of Hattiesburg and Michael Hughes of Meridian.
Memorials may be made to Sacred Heart Catholic Church or to a charity of choice.
Visitation will be today from 5 p.m.- 9 p.m. with a 7 p.m. Rosary at the funeral home.
GILBERTOWN, Ala. Services for Velma Lucille Gibson Abston will be held Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at Gilbertown First Baptist Church with the Revs. Rusty Bird and Lester Pope officiating. Burial will be in Gilbertown Cemetery. Phillips Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Abston, 82, of Gilbertown, died Sunday, Aug. 22, 2004, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
Survivors include her sons, Donal Larry Abston and Thomas Eddie Abston, both of Gilbertown and James D. Abston Jr., of Butler; a daughter, Jimmie Faye Abston McFadden of Birmingham; 10 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James D. Abston Sr.
Visitation will be today from 6 p.m.- 8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Arrangements were incomplete at James F. Webb Funeral Home for Gay E. Crocker, 53, of Collinsville, who died Sunday, Aug. 22, 2004, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
Arrangements were incomplete at Barham Funeral Home for Terry Evans, of Meridian, who died Sunday, Aug. 22, 2004, in Laurel.
