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2:34 pm Sunday, October 13, 2002

ERMA JEAN GOUGH

By Staff
Retired
Services for Erma Jean Gough will be held Monday at 1:30 p.m. at Highland Baptist Church. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Barham Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Gough, 70, of Meridian, died Saturday, Oct. 12, 2002, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
Visitation will be today from 4 p.m.-6 p.m. at the funeral home.
DANNY GRAHAM
Pipeline superintendent
PHILADELPHIA Services for Danny Graham will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at McClain-Hays Funeral Chapel with the Revs. John Stephens and Mark Cloys officiating. Burial will be in Ocobla Cemetery in Neshoba County.
Mr. Graham, 54, of Philadelphia, died Monday, Oct. 7, 2002, in Moundou, Chad. He was employed with Willbros USA, Inc., of Houston, Texas, where he was a pipeline superintendent. He was working on the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project. He was born in Chunky, but moved to Philadelphia early in life and made his home there. He was a member of the Meridian Moose Lodge and the International Union of Operating Engineers of Seattle, Wash.
Survivors include his wife, Joan Graham, of Philadelphia; two daughters, Jill Graham and Nicole Graham, and a son, Dan Graham, all of Philadelphia; two sisters, Joyce Chisolm and Kathy Dean, of Chunky; and three brothers, Sonny Graham, of Philadelphia, Benny Graham, of Madden, and J.T. Graham, of Chunky.
He was preceded in death by his brother, Sam Graham.
Pallbearers will be Hoop Hooper, Buddy Killen, Dale Eakes, Jimmy Ray Jones, Jim Whittle, Tim Allen, Virgil Herring and Benny Lee Adkins.
Visitation will be today from 3 p.m.-9 p.m. at the funeral home.
GLORIA J. HOUSTON
DEKALB Arrangements were incomplete at E.E. McDonald Funeral Home for Gloria J. Houston, 51, of Meridian, who died Friday, Oct. 11, 2002, at Rush Foundation Hospital.
RUBY RIDINGER
Arrangements were incomplete at Barham Funeral Home for Ruby Ridinger, 77, of Marion, who died Saturday, Oct. 12, 2002, at Guardian Angel Hospice, Inc.
ROBERT L. GOWDY
Arrangements were incomplete at Berry &Gardner Funeral Home for Robert L. Gowdy, 53, of Lauderdale, who died Friday, Oct. 11, 2002, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.
VIOLA MARTIN
Arrangements were incomplete at Berry &Gardner Funeral Home for Viola Martin, 84, of Meridian, who died Saturday, Oct. 12, 2002, at Guardian Angel Hospice, Inc.
M.L. SAMPSON
Arrangements were incomplete at Berry &Gardner Funeral Home for Rev. M.L. Sampson, 67, of Meridian, who died Thursday, Oct. 10, 2002, at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center.

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