OBITUARY LISTINGS

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...

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...

Feb 5, 2025

Hazel Marie Eaves Merritt born on January 8, 1928 in Electric Mills to Mary Rogers Eaves and Monroe Eaves. She grew up and lived in her longtime home on Shuqualak Road. Her family helped to start and attended Macedonia Methodist (Community) Church where her interment will be on June 28, 2025. She passed away at home in Elysian Fields, Texas...

Feb 5, 2025

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...

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....

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,...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Nov 16, 2024

Mr. Andy Roy Cotton, 90, of Macon, MS., passed away November 16, 2024, at Trinity Care Nursing Center in Columbus, MS after a brief illness. He had been declining in health for some time. A funeral service is planned for Monday, November 18, 2024, at First Baptist Church, Macon, MS at 12:00 p.m. Interment will follow in Salem Cemetery. Visitation...

Nov 13, 2024

Mrs. Peggy Heflin Gentry, 83, of Starkville, MS passed away at her residence surrounded by her loving family on Wednesday, November 13, 2024. Funeral services are planned for Sunday, November 17, 2024 at Bethesda Baptist Church near Crawford, MS, at 3:00 p.m. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be held at the church Sunday from 2-3 p.m....