Obituaries for Saturday, September 11, 2004
By Staff
Retired
QUITMAN Graveside services for Daniel Marston Bonney will be held today at 2 p.m. at Enterprise Cemetery with the Revs. Grady Crowell and Gene Neal officiating. Wright's Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Bonney, of Quitman, died Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center. He lived in Quitman for nearly 50 years. He was a graduate of Mississippi State University. He was the owner and operator of Standard Cotton Gin Co. and Quitman Bonded Warehouse until his retirement in 1990. He was a veteran of the US Navy and served in World War II on an L.S.T.
Survivors include his wife, Sammye; his daughters, Carolyn, Virginia and Dana and a son-in-law David; grandchildren, Catherine, McCaa and Mallie.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert and Ruby Bonney and his brothers, Robert T. and Evans Bonney.
Visitation will be today from 9 a.m.-11 a.m. at the family home.
Retired
Union Services for James Tommie Turner will be held today at 2 p.m. at Milling Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Chris Harrison officiating. Burial will be in Union City Cemetery.
Mr. Turner, 83, of Union, died Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004, in his home. He was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and served in World War II and the Korean War and in the South Pacific Theater. He was a retired brick mason and a member of the New Ireland Baptist Church. Mr. Turner loved farming, tractors and horses. He will be remembered as an excellent husband, father and grandfather and will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
Survivors include his wife, Aileen Turner of Union; daughter, Cheryl Lindsay and her husband, B.G. of Leake County; a son, Michael Turner of Union; granddaughters, April Johnson of Brandon, Amy Trisler and her husband, Roger, of Madison; sisters, Christine Gilmore of Mobile, Ala. and Charlie V. Dowdle of Spanish Fort, Ala.; a brother, the Rev. Carl Turner Jr. of Forest and several nieces and nephews and a special friend, Michael Edgar of New York.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Carl and Bettie Turner; a granddaughter, Tammy Johnson; sisters, Pauline Turner and Mildred Pledger.
Pallbearers will be Michael Edgar, Bill Aikens, Terry Strickland, Roger Trisler and Glenn Waddell.
United Life Insurance Co. district manager
BUTLER, Ala. Services for Kenneth Hardy Bozeman will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. at Silas First Baptist Church with the Revs. Jimmy Veazey and Don Whigham officiating. Burial will be in Edgar Cemetery with Bumpers Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Bozeman, 53, of Silas, died Friday, Sept. 10, 2004, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
Survivors include his wife, Brenda Taylor Bozeman of Silas; a son, Kenneth Scott Bozeman and his wife, Amy; a daughter, Jada Marshan Bozeman, both of Livingston; a brother, William Lee Bozeman of Robertsdale; sisters, Ruby Ann Bozeman of Birmingham and Linda Franz of Marino Valley, Calf.; and a granddaughter, Anna Scott Bozeman.
Visitation will be held today from 6 p.m.-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Secretary at State Farm Insurance
Services for Doris Schaffer Tatum Boykin will be held Monday at 1: 30 p.m. at James F. Webb Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Mike Russell officiating. Burial will be in Magnolia Cemetery.
Mrs. Boykin, of Meridian, died Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center. She was born in Baskin, La. and was a graduate of Rayville High School. She was a member of Oak Hill Baptist Church.
Survivors include her daughters, Kay Cessna and her husband, Jimmie, of Meridian and Claudia Tatum of Tulsa, Okla.; a granddaughter, Shea Cessna of Meridian; sisters, Elsie Schaffer of Orlando, Estelle Hansen and her husband, L.C. of Metairie, La.; and a brother, Allen Schaffer and his wife, Sue, of Atlanta.
She was preceded in death by her husbands, Claude Tatum and Ralph Boykin; her parents, Robert May Schaffer and Estelle Greenwood Schaffer; sisters, Maude Wright, Mildred Lane and Daisey Andrews and a brother, Robert Schaffer.
Memorials may be made to Oak Hill Baptist Church building fund.
Pallbearers will be Charles D. Smith, Jimmie Cessna, Glenn Jackson, Jim Wilson, Dave Holloway and J.L. Reese.
Honorary pallbearers will be Wilmer Griffin, Charles Easterwood and Tommy Rayner.
Visitation will be held Sunday from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. at the funeral home.
Services for Charles Clark will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Berry &Gardner Funeral Home with the Rev. Stanley Coleman officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Cemetery.
Mr. Clark, 87, of Meridian, died Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004, at Guardian Angel Hospice.
Survivors include his daughter, Tachulla Wright and her husband, Curtis, of Lauderdale; sons, Greg Johnson, Randall Johnson and Stanley Johnson and his wife, Helen, all of Meridian; sisters, Ruby Waters of Newark, N.J. and Effie Turner of Chicago; brothers, J.W. Clark and Albert Clark, both of Chicago, and Henry Clark and Herbert Clark, both of Omaha, Neb.; 10 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Visitation will be held Monday from 6 p.m.-7 p.m. at the funeral home.
A memorial service for Lela Benson Burnett will be held Sept. 20 at 3 p.m. at James F. Webb Funeral Home.
Mrs. Burnette, 83, of Meridian, died Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
Visitation will be held 30 minutes prior to the service at the funeral home.
Arrangements were incomplete at Berry &Gardner Funeral Home for John Leonard Moore of Porterville, who died Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004, in his home.
Arrangements were incomplete at Berry &Gardner Funeral Home for Anitra C. McNeal, 30, of Meridian, who died Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
