OBITUARY LISTINGS

Recent Obituaries

Local Obituaries for Macon, MS, Noxubee County and Surrounding Areas.

Charles Richard Barge

Charles Richard Barge

Apr 22, 2025

Charles Richard Barge (Richard) was born on October 2, 1930, to Charles Alexander Barge and Bonnie Inez Furr Barge. He was welcomed by sisters Charlene and Betty.

His father, Charles, was from Zavalla, Texas, and his mother was the oldest child of a Baptist Pastor whose first church was in Mashulaville, Mississippi. His father left Texas to come to work at...

Bobby Adams

Bobby Adams

Apr 17, 2025

Bobby Adams, 81, of Shuqualak, MS., passed away at Baptist Anderson Hospital, Meridian on Thursday, April 17, 2025.A graveside service is planned for Sunday, April 20, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. at Butler Cemetery, Shuqualak, MS. Visitation will be held at Butler Pentecostal Church Sunday from 3-5 p.m. Sunday. Cockrell Funeral Home is honored to be entrusted with arrangements.

Bobby was born...

Sue Donaldson Lindley

Sue Donaldson Lindley

Apr 13, 2025

Sue Lindley, 92, beloved mother, grandmother and community leader of Columbus, MS, formerly of Mountain View, Arkansas, passed away Sunday, April 13, 2025, at Anderson-Baptist Hospital in Meridian, MS. There will be a memorial service held later. In lieu of flowers, memorials are requested to Alzheimer’s Association, 225 N. Michigan Ave., Floor 17, Chicago, Ill 60601 or Salem Cemetery Fund,...

Elmer U Mast

Elmer U Mast

Mar 8, 2025

Elmer U. Mast went to his Eternal rest at his home on March 8, 2025, at 93 years old. A funeral service is planned for Thursday, March 13, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. at Magnolia Mennonite Church in Macon, MS. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will be held at the church on Wednesday from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8...

Grady Thompson

Grady Thompson

Feb 26, 2025

Grady Thompson, 71, of Crawford, MS passed away on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. A funeral service is planned for Saturday, March 1, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. at Crawford Methodist Church. Interment will follow in Oak Limb Cemetery. Visitation will be at the church from 12 p.m. until service time. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Jude...

Jim Henderson

Jim Henderson

Jan 23, 2025

Jim Henderson, 71, of Aliceville, AL passed away Thursday, January 23, 2025. There will be a graveside service held sometime in the spring. Cockrell Funeral Home is honored to be entrusted with arrangements.

James Clifford Henderson was born in Woodstock, Ontario, Canada on December 17, 1953 and moved with his family to Noxubee County, MS in 1963. Jim was a 1971...

Shirley Hailey

Shirley Hailey

Jan 23, 2025

Mrs. Shirley Hailey, 86, of Macon MS passed away at Baptist Memorial Hospital, Columbus, MS on January 23, 2025. A funeral service is planned for Friday, January 24, 2025, at 2 p.m. at Cockrell Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation will be held at the funeral home from 12:45 until 2 p.m. Interment will be at Salem Baptist Church Cemetery, Preston, MS....

Judith Ann Goodwin Russell

Judith Ann Goodwin Russell

Jan 19, 2025

Mrs. Judith Ann Goodwin Russell, 74, of Senatobia, MS passed away Sunday, January 19, 2025, at Senatobia Health and Rehab, Senatobia, MS. A visitation will be held Thursday, January 23, 2025, from 12-1 p.m. at Cooksville Methodist Church, Macon, MS, followed by a graveside service held in the church sanctuary at 1p.m. Memorials may be made to Cooksville Methodist Church,...

Mary Nell Higginbotham

Mary Nell Higginbotham

Jan 14, 2025

Mary Nell Young Higginbotham, 84, passed away with her loving family at her side on Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at the Noxubee County Nursing Home in Macon, Mississippi. Visitation will be Thursday, January 16, from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. at Massey Funeral Home in Louisville, Mississippi. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, January 17, in...

Dessie Vandevender

Dessie Vandevender

Jan 14, 2025

Dessie Mae Vandevender, 93, passed away on January 14, 2025 at Neshoba General Hospital. Her funeral service will be held on Saturday, January 18 at 2:00 P.M. at Cockrell Funeral Home Chapel in Macon. Interment will follow in Union Ridge Cemetery near Noxapater. Visitation will begin one hour before the service time. Cockrell Funeral Home is honored to be entrusted...

Joseph Paul Dufour

Joseph Paul Dufour

Jan 13, 2025

Joseph Paul Dufour of Canton, GA passed away January 13, 2025, at Methodist North Hospital in Memphis, TN. A funeral service is planned for Friday, January 17,2025 at 3:00 p.m. at Scooba Community Church, 537 Kemper Street, Scooba, MS. Interment will follow in the Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Scooba, MS. Visitation will be held at the church from 1-3 p.m., Friday....

Dorothy Harms Benner

Dorothy Harms Benner

Dec 27, 2024

Mrs. Dorothy Benner, 93, of Faunsdale, AL., passed away Friday, December 27, 2024 at Oakwood Retirement Community, Brooksville, MS. A funeral service is planned for Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at Cedar Crest Mennonite Church in Fawnsdale, AL  at 10:30 a.m. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be held at the church from 6:30 until 8:30 p.m. Monday.In...

Delois Loomis

Delois Loomis

Dec 26, 2024

Delois Carlile Loomis left this life December 26, 2024, at the age of 87 at Oakwood Manor, Brooksville, Mississippi. She was born in Gainesboro, Tennessee on November 22, 1937, to Walter and Bertha Carlile. At the age of six, she relocated with her family to Cookeville, Tennessee, where she resided until she married Sumner Stuart Loomis on June 30, 1956.

Delois...

Mary Anna Reed

Mary Anna Reed

Dec 16, 2024

Mrs. Mary Anna Reed, 78, of Shuqualak, MS passed away Monday, December 16, 2024, at Baptist Hospital in Meridian, MS. Funeral services are planned for Friday, December 20, 2024, at 2 p.m. at Soul Harbor Pentecostal Church in Shuqualak, MS. Interment will be in Butler Cemetery. Visitation will be held at the church from 12-2 p.m., Friday. Memorials may be...

Susan Kay Creekmore May

Susan Kay Creekmore May

Dec 15, 2024

Susan Kay Creekmore (May), 68, of Shady Valley, TN passed away on December 15th, 2024. A memorial service is planned for Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. at Memorial Gardens, 176 S Frontage Rd., Columbus, MS. Susan May, a native of MS, was a graduate of Caldwell HS in Columbus, MS and received her associate’s degree from MSCW in...

Virginia Zgarba

Virginia Zgarba

Dec 9, 2024

Mrs. Virginia Zgarba, 93, formerly of Brooksville, MS, passed away Monday, December 9, 2024, at North Mississippi Medical Center. A funeral service is planned for Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. at Brooksville Baptist Church. Interment will follow in Brooksville Cemetery. Visitation will be held at the church thirty minutes prior to the service. Memorials may be made to...

Peggy Williams

Peggy Williams

Dec 8, 2024

Peggy Lee Williams, 76, of Brooksville, MS passed away at her residence on Saturday, December 7, 2024. 

A funeral service is planned for Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 2:30 p.m. at Brooksville Methodist

 Church, Brooksville, MS. Interment will follow in Soule Chapel Cemetery. 

Visitation will be held at the church from 1:2-30 p.m. Memorials may be made to St. Jude’s Childrens 

Research Hospital, 262...

Helen Lindley

Helen Lindley

Dec 5, 2024

Helen Watkins Lindley, 98, of Shuqualak, MS passed away surrounded by her family on December 5, 2024, at Carrington Nursing Center in Starkville, MS. Her funeral service will take place on Sunday, December 8, at Cockrell Funeral Home Chapel (3478 Jefferson Street) in Macon at 2:00 P.M. Helen’s grandson, Dr. Carlton Weathers, will officiate the service. Interment will follow in...

Alice McNally Cooper

Alice McNally Cooper

Nov 25, 2024

Alice Kathleen McNally Cooper, 95, passed away, Monday, November 25, 2024, peacefully at Windham House Nursing Home in Hattiesburg, MS, surrounded by the love of her family. 

Alice was born December 8, 1928, in Indianapolis, Indiana to William Thomas McNally and Kathryn George McNally. She was a graduate of Arsenal Technical High School and attended Hanover College where she was a...