Obituaries for Thursday, October 28, 2004
By Staff
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LINTON, Ind. Services for Grady E. Phillips will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at Anderson-Poindexter Memory Chapel. Burial will be at 1 p.m. Monday in Magnolia Cemetery in Meridian.
Mr. Phillips, 90, of Linton, died Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2004, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Indiana. He was born on March 21, 1914, in Meridian to the late Grady and Lillian Guy Phillips. He was a sales manager of McMahan Furniture Store in Baldwin and retired in 1986. He was a member of the Methodist church.
Survivors include his daughter-in-law, Barbara Phillips of Linton; grandchildren, Daniel Grady Phillips and his wife, Patricia, of Vincennes, Ind. and Kimberly Ann Robison of Linton; great-grandchildren, Kyle McKee, Olivia and Madeline Robison; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Bertie Page Phillips; and a son, Daniel Grady Phillips.
Visitation will be today from 5 p.m.-9 p.m. at the funeral home and Friday beginning at 9 a.m. until service time at the funeral home.
Retired
Services for Havord Gordon Sr. will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at New Era Baptist Church with the Rev. Roderick L. Steele Sr. officiating. Burial will be in Gordon Cemetery. Enterprise Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Gordon, 82, of Meridian, died Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004, at Heartfelt Hospice.
Survivors include his sons, Willie Lee Gordon and Howard Gordon, both of Meridian, Eugene Gordon, Darius Gordon and Ronald Walker, all of Detroit.
Visitation will be Friday from 6 p.m.-7 p.m. at the funeral home.
Services for Wash Boyd will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Mt. Cephus Primitive Baptist Church with the Rev. Tony Hubbard officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Hebron Cemetery. Berry and Gardner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Boyd, 60, of Lauderdale, died Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004, in Lauderdale.
Survivors include his common-law wife, Mattie Overstreet of Lauderdale; sisters, Martha Wright of Lauderdale, Lucille Hill of Kemper County and Katie Ree Presswood of York, Ala.; brothers, Willie Ray Boyd and George Boyd, both of Lauderdale, Jacob Boyd of Chattanooga, Tenn. and Mose Boyd of Prentiss; step-daughters, Patricia Overstreet of Lauderdale, Shirley Huggins of Marion and Dorothy Overstreet of Meridian; step-sons, Tony Overstreet of Meridian, Henry Overstreet, William Overstreet and Willie Overstreet, all of Lauderdale; five step-grandchildren and two step-great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
Visitation will be Friday from 6 p.m.-7 p.m. at the funeral home.
Services for Bobby Brown will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at New Oak Grove Baptist Church in Pachuta. Burial will be in Cokes Chapel Cemetery. Berry and Gardner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Brown, 50, of Quitman, died Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004, at Central Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
Survivors include his father, Thomas Ellis Sr. of Chicago; his fiance, Pauline Wallace of Quitman; sisters, Pamela Battle, Patricia Grant, Nedra Miller, La Keya Scott, Mary Thompson and Debra Taylor, all of Chicago, and Sandy Brown of Jackson; brothers, Ray Charles Brown of Shubuta, Kenneth Scott and Thomas Lee Ellis Jr., both of Chicago; and his step-father, Charlie Scott of Chicago.
He was preceded in death by his mother.
Visitation will be Friday from 6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. at the funeral home in Quitman.
Retired
Graveside services for Edward D. Frasier were held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Magnolia Cemetery with the Rev. Buddy Petty officiating. James F. Webb Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Frasier, 82, of Meridian, died Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004, in Meridian. He was the retired owner of Redd Pest Control and a former longtime city councilman.
Survivors include his wife, Charlotte Frasier of Meridian; two sons, one daughter, one brother, one sister, four grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
NEWTON Arrangements were incomplete at James F. Webb Funeral Home of Newton for Ola Kate Wheeler, 82, of Coal City, Ill., formerly of Newton, who died Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2004, at Heritage Manor in Dwight, Ill.
Arrangements were incomplete at Barham Funeral Home for Maybelle Baxter, 96, of Meridian, who died Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2004, in her home.
