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3:36 pm Monday, June 25, 2001

OBITUARIES FOR MONDAY, JUNE 25, 2001

By Staff
EDDIE LONG
QUITMAN Services for Eddie Cotton" Long will be held today at 2 p.m. at Wright's Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Grant Duncan officiating. Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Mr. Long, 78, died Saturday, June 23, 2001, in his home.
Survivors include a son, Ronald Long of Quitman; seven daughters, Janice Walker, Evelyn Maggard, Sharon Roberts, Marsha Kennedy and Mona Sims, all of Quitman, Linda Gail Beard of McComb and Sandra Graham of Gilbertown, Ala.; two sisters, Maxine Robinson and Edna Ford, both of Quitman; 19 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
W.J. ROBINSON SR.
Retired from International Paper Company
MOSS POINT Services for W.J. "Jack" Robinson Sr. will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at Holder-Wells Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Larry Darden officiating. Burial will follow at 2 p.m. in Pine Hill Cemetery in the Pine Hill Community of Clarke County.
Mr. Robinson, 77, of Big Point, died Saturday, June 23, 2001, in his home.
Survivors include his wife, Shirley Ezell Robinson of Big Point; three sons, Jacky Robinson and his wife, Wreather, of Moss Point, Danny Robinson and his wife, Lisa, of Vancleave and Kevin Robinson of Baton Rouge, La.; three stepsons, Paul Ezell and his wife, Amy, of Gautier, David Ezell and his wife, Dianne, of Birmingham, Ala., and John Ezell and his wife, Pat, of Slidell, La.; sisters, Catherine Rossum and her husband, Van Van, Betty Sue Robinson and Mary Hopson, all of Laurel, Virginia Terrocciano and her husband, Tony, of Tennessee, Jean Canaday and her husband, Bill, of Pascagoula, Sandy Cook and her husband, Jerry, of Mobile, Ala., and Mabel Cook and her husband, Jimmie, of Texas; a brother, the Rev. Wallace Robinson and his wife, Mary, of Sydney, Australia; his mother-in-law, Dorinda Cook of Pascagoula; 12 grandchildren, several other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Perry and Hazel Lawson Robinson and his first wife, Vivian Tillman Robinson.
Visitation will be today from 6 p.m.-9 p.m. at the funeral home.
JAMES HUGH MCLAURIN
Retired fireman U.S. Air Force
PHILADELPHIA Services for James Hugh McLaurin will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at McClain-Hays Funeral Service Chapel. Burial will be in Clarks Chapel Cemetery in DeKalb.
Mr. McLaurin, 77, of Philadelphia, died Sunday, June 24, 2001, at Mississippi State Veterans Home in Kosciusko.
Survivors include four daughters, Jennie Szelich of Woodstock, Ga., Dorothy McKinnon and Susan Stevenson, both of Newton, and Paula Jones of Mobile, Ala.; two sons, James E. McLaurin of Lauderdale and Gregory Hugh McLaurin of DeKalb; a sister, Katherine Burnett and a brother, Dan McLaurin, both of Philadelphia; eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be today from 5 p.m.-8 p.m. at the funeral home.

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