Obituaries for Sunday, March 21, 2004
By Staff
UNION Services for Bessie M. Ezelle will be held today at 2 p.m. at Milling Funeral Home with the Revs. Mike Ahlberg and Charles Skinner officiating. Burial will be in Greenland Community Cemetery.
Mrs. Ezelle, 96, of Union, died Thursday, March 18, 2004 at Hilltop Manor Nursing Home. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Union.
Survivors include her sons, Henry L. Ezelle Jr. and his wife, Mary Ann, of San Antonio, and Harold Ezelle and his wife, Thedra, of Little Rock; five grandchildren, Jeanie McKay and her husband, Mike, Cindy Page and her husband, Donny, Brian Ezelle, Brent Ezelle and his wife, Tracy, and Patricia Ezelle; three great-grandchildren, Jody Dorman, Kim George and Garrett Ezelle; two great-grandchildren, Drew Dorman and Payton Dorman; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Loyd Ezelle.
Pallbearers will be Osmond Matlock, Bill Matlock, Johnny Matlock, Marvin Goss, Curtis Gordon and Gerald Matlock.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the First Presbyterian Church of Union.
GILBERTOWN, Ala. Graveside services for Elmer Doggett will be held today at 2 p.m. at Brightwater Cemetery.
Mr. Doggett, 81, of Toxey, died Thursday, March 18, 2004 in Butler.
Survivors include his brother, Ray Doggett of Kilgore, Texas; and a sister, Phenia Doggett of Butler.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Oscar Doggett and Lula Mae Davison Doggett.
Pipe fitter
WAYNESBORO Services for Phillip Rodney Lindsey will be held today at 2 p.m. at Freeman Chapel with the Rev. Phillip A. Gandy officiating. Burial will be in Serenity Gardens. Freeman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Lindsey, 21, of Laurel, died Thursday, March 18, 2004, in Farmington, Maine.
Survivors include his parents, Rodney Lindsey of Waynesboro and Belinda Kelley Gibson of Columbia, S.C.; a brother, Gatlin Gibson of Columbia; sisters, Jasmine Snowden of Columbia, and Regan Lindsey of Waynesboro; grandfather, Gene Kelley and his wife, Sue, of Waynesboro; grandmother, Barbara Kelley of Laurel; a niece, Mackenzie Snowden; and a nephew, Jacob Snowden, both of Columbia.
He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Bobby and Marjorie Lindsey.
UNION Services for Rennie Wiggington will be held Monday at 10 a.m. at Milling Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Raymond Ray Boyd officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. Zion Congregational Methodist Church Cemetery.
Mr. Wiggington, 66, of Decatur, died Saturday, March 20, 2004, at the V.A. Medical Center in Jackson.
Survivors include his wife, Linda Wiggington; a son Gary Wiggington, both of Decatur; three step-children; three brothers, Billy Joe Wiggington of Meridian, Charles Wiggington of Niceville, Fla. and Clyde Wiggington of Decatur; and several nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be held today from 6 p.m.-8p.m. at the funeral home.
Retired farmer
PHILADELPHIA Services for Charles Trapp will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at McClain-Hays Funeral Service chapel with the Rev. John Branning officiating. Burial will be in Coy Methodist Cemetery in Neshoba County.
Mr. Trapp, 65, of Philadelphia, died Friday, March, 19, 2004 at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center. He served in the U.S. Army.
Survivors include his sister, Betty Jo Nolan of Memphis; and brothers, Robert Walton Trapp of Decatur, Albert Harvey Trapp of Newton and Benjamin Lamar Trapp of Corinth.
Visitation will be held today from 7 p.m.-9 p.m. at the funeral home.
Services for Natalie P. Yarger will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at St. Patrick Catholic Church with the Rev. Elvin Sunds officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery with James F. Webb Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Yarger, 88, of Rockford, Ill., died Saturday, March 13, 2004, in Rockford.
Survivors include her son, Jon Yarger and his wife, Mary; and a grandson, Andrew Yarger, all of Meridian.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Donald Yarger.
The family requests memorials be made to St. Patrick Catholic School endowment fund.
Arrangements were incomplete at Berry &Gardner Funeral Home for Roydon Hampton, 71, of Newark, N.J., who died Friday, March 19, 2004, at Beth Israel Hospital.