Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
8:40 am Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Keith Elwood Hallmark

Keith Elwood Hallmark

December 22, 2011

Keith Elwood Hallmark, 51, died Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011, at Generations of Red Bay. He was a native of Red Bay, a truck driver and served in the National Guard. He attended Belmont United Methodist Church.

Funeral services were Monday, Dec. 26, 2011, at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel, Red Bay, with Bro. Greg Forbus and Bro. Barry Lofton officiating. Burial was in Belmont City Cemetery, Belmont, Miss.

He is survived by his wife, Pam Hallmark, Red Bay; one daughter, Keitha Hallmark, Red Bay; two sisters, Martha Ann Casmus and Mary Henley and husband, David, all of Belmont, Miss.; two brothers, John Hallmark and his wife, Donna, Tupelo, Miss., and Gary Hallmark and his wife, Faye, Decatur; five step-children, Donnie Sides, Brent Sides and Sally Hester, all of Red Bay, and Barry James and Amanda Birdsong, both of Arkansas; ten grandchildren, Kyler Birdsong, Ariel Birdsong, Nathan James, Chelsea James, Cayd Hester, Brenleigh Hester, Connor Sides, Preston Sides, Maygan Sides and Anna Sides; two aunts, Evelyn Shook and her husband, Claude, of Belmont, Miss., and Catheryn Moore, Fulton, Miss., and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Bernell Elwood Hallmark and Elsie Rea Taylor Hallmark.

Pallbearers were Donnie Sides, Jerry Smith, Gary Hallmark, Taylor Hallmark, David Henley, Jeff Garrison, Phillip Jackson and Chris Hallmark.

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