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12:29 pm Thursday, July 25, 2002

Obituaries for Thursday, July 25, 2002

By Staff
DARRIGAN G. MOSLEY
Services for Darrigan G. Mosley will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at Mount Olive Baptist Church with the Rev. Dr. Zachary Operton officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Cemetery with Berry and Gardner Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Mosley, 37, of Meridian, died Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
Survivors include his wife, LaDonna Mosley; two daughters, LaDena Mosley and Brittney Spinks; his parents, Earven Clay and Willie Mae Mosley; a brother, Marlon Mosley; and three sisters, Tamar Mosley, Dimetri Brown and Tashma Mosley.
He was preceded in death by Charlie Pete and Eunice Ray Mosley.
Visitation will be Friday 7 p.m.-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
RALPH HURLEY
UNION Services for Ralph Hurley will be held today at 2 p.m. at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church with the Revs. Lin Chesney, Mike Truhett and Charles Robinson officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Milling Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Hurley, 76, of Union, died Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at the University Medical Center in Jackson.
Survivors include his wife, Geneva Hurley of Union; daughters, Ruth Gregory of Little Rock and Annette Larmeu of New Orleans; a son, Ralph Hurley of Union; a sister, Rebecca Day of Memphis, Tenn.; and three grandchildren.
OLA MAE JIMERSON COX
Homemaker
BUTLER, Ala. Services for Ola Mae Jimerson Cox will be held today at 3 p.m. at Lusk Assembly of God with the Revs. Clyde Dykes, Fred Wiley and Doug Stevens officiating. Burial will be in Old Lusk Cemetery. Bumpers Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Cox, 81, of Butler, formerly from Gilbertown, died Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
Survivors include her daughters, Louelle Allen of Mobile, Ala., and Louise Johnson of Gilbertown; sons, Charlie Cox Jr. and Mack Cox, both of Gilbertown; brothers, Don Jimerson and George Jimerson, both of Gilbertown, and Roy Jimerson of Stonewall; nine grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
EDWARD LEE SMITH
Services for Edward Lee Smith will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at Barham Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Mike Boles officiating. Burial will be in Meridian Memorial Park Cemetery.
Mr. Smith, 44, of Meridian, died Sunday, July 21, 2002, in Meridian. He was retired from McDonald and Hill.
Survivors include his daughters, Brandy Mason of Laurel, Valerie Lucas of Chunky and Bridgett Davis of Columbus; two sons, Joshua Lee Smith and Travis Edward Smith, both of Meridian; six grandchildren; eight sisters, Marie Davis, Hazel Avant, Lenra Beitzel, Dorothy Stephens, Kathline Love, Elizabeth Barthlomew, Lois Broadhead and Louise Rutledge; five brothers, Bobby Ray Smith, Richard Smith, Larry Smith, Charles Smith and Harvey Smith.
He was preceded in death by a grandson.
Pallbearers will be Jason Davis, Bit Smith, Puddin Smith, Raymond Howard, Joey Gressett and Raymond Davis.
Visitation will be today 5 p.m.-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
LARKIN TY'KEEM FAISON
Services for Larkin "Javeon" Ty'Keem Faison will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Clark's Memorial Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Jerry Johnson officiating. Burial will be in Springhill Church Cemetery in Kewanee.
Javeon, 7 months-old, of Cleveland, Ohio, died Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at University Hospital in Cleveland.
Survivors include his mother, Miranda Faison of Cleveland; his father, Tyrone Tillman of Meridian; his step-father, Tracy Hearns of Cleveland; grandparents, Charles Larkin, Ethel Tillman and Aaron Rush, all of Meridian, Beverly Faison, Carl Faison and Tanya Ervin, all of Cleveland, and Ann Landrum of Kewanee; his great-grandmother, Sudie Mangnam of Cleveland; two sisters, Kiora Faison and Zenah Tillman, both of Meridian.

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