Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
3:25 pm Tuesday, January 29, 2013

James Edward Ledbetter

James Edward Ledbetter

January 23, 2013

James Edward Ledbetter, 83, died Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, at the North Mississippi Medical Center.

A native of Franklin County, he had been employed as an electrician for Tiffin Motor Homes. He was a deacon at Pilot Hill Baptist Church.

Services were Friday, Jan. 25, 2013, at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. A.H. Akins officiating. Burial was in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.

Survivors are his wife of 63 years, Edith Ledbetter, Red Bay; two children, Linda Harmond Mathiston and husband, Thomas, and Vondia Pharr and husband, Jeff, Red Bay; two sisters, Eugenia Morgan and Ellen Carico; one brother, Troyce Ledbetter; four grandchildren, Jamie McNeil and husband, Shane, Cody Gray and wife, Tracey, Ryan Seahorn and Jordan Seahorn and wife, Melissa, and six great-grandchildren; Cara, Connor and Colin McNeil, Allysa and Marleigh Gray and Gunner Seahorn.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Robert Hilton Ledbetter and Hettie Louise Duncan Ledbetter and six brothers and sisters.

Pallbearers were David Ledbetter, Harold Ledbetter, Hugh Johnston, Ronnie Wooten, Phillip Gray and Terry Hall.

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