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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Andy Roy Cotton
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...
Peggy Heflin Gentry
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....
Carol Johnson
Nov 11, 2024
Mrs. Carol Johnson, 85, of Macon, MS passed away at her residence surrounded by her family, on Monday, November 11, 2024. A funeral service is planned for Friday, November 15, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. at Brooksville Mennonite Church in Brooksville MS. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Visitation will be held at the church, Thursday from 6-8 p.m. Cockrell...
Gary Lee Gaines
Nov 3, 2024
Gary L. Gaines, 73, of Brooksville, Mississippi, passed away suddenly at Methodist Olive Branch Hospital on November 3 surrounded by his loving family. Gary was born on January 17, 1951, in Clarksdale. Having spent his earliest days living on the King and Anderson plantation for which his father was a manager, Gary developed a deep love for the outdoors which...
Peggy Sue Higginbotham Jernigan
Oct 23, 2024
Mrs. Peggy Sue Higginbotham Jernigan, 71, of Millport, AL passed away peacefully at her residence Wednesday, October 23, 2024, surrounded by her family. A memorial service will be held at Cockrell Funeral Home, Friday, October 25, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. Interment will follow in Salem Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 9:30 a.m. until service time at the funeral home....
Michael Dawkins
Oct 16, 2024
Michael Dawkins, 51, of Brooksville, MS passed away Wednesday, October 16, 2024, at Noxubee General Hospital in Macon, MS. A funeral service is planned for Saturday, October 19, 2024, at 3:00 p.m. at Kemper Academy Gymnasium, 149 Walnut Avenue, Dekalb, MS 39328. Bro. Chris Gully will be officiating the service. Visitation will be held prior to the service at the...
Gary Lee Hines
Oct 13, 2024
Gary Lee Hines, 67, of Macon, MS passed away at his residence, Sunday, October 13, 2024. A memorial service will be held Wednesday, October 16, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. at Independent Methodist Church, 1177 Washington St., Macon, MS 39341. Visitation will be held at the church on Wednesday from 9-11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to...
Carol J. Wright
Oct 10, 2024
Mrs. Carol J. Wright, 78, of Macon, MS, passed away on Thursday, October 10, 2024, at Baptist Memorial Hospital, Columbus, MS. A memorial service is planned for Monday, October 14, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. at Cooksville Methodist Church,1500 Cooksville Rd., Macon, MS 39341. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Cooksville Cemetery Fund, 2356 Cooksville Rd., Macon, MS...
Randy G. Ewing
Oct 4, 2024
Randy Ewing, 67, of Macon, MS passed away Friday, October 4, 2024, at St. Dominic Hospital, Jackson, MS. A funeral service will be held at the Life Center, 144 Hale St., Macon, MS Thursday, October 10, 2024, at 3 p.m. Interment will follow in Salem Cemetery. Visitation will be held at the Life Center,Thursday from 1-3 p.m. Memorials may be...
Ann Griffin Baker
Sep 29, 2024
Ann Griffin Baker, 89, passed away on Sunday, September 29, 2024. Funeral services will he held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, October 12, 2024, at Gambrell Street Baptist Church, 1616 W Gambrell Street, Fort Worth, TX. Interment will be after the service at Mount Olivet Cemetery, 2301 North Sylvania Avenue, Fort Worth, TX.
Ann was born April 30, 1935, in Macon, Mississippi....
Allene S. Putnam
Sep 17, 2024
Mrs. Allene S. Putnam, 104, of Brooksville, MS passed away at her residence on Tuesday, September 17, 2024. A memorial service will be held Friday, September 20, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. at Macon Presbyterian Church in Macon, MS. Interment will be held at Lakewood Memorial Park in Jackson, MS on Saturday, September 21, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. Rev. Phillip Palmertree...
Patricia Wooten Strickland
Sep 14, 2024
Patricia Wooten Strickland, 67, of Hamilton, MS., passed away at her residence Saturday, September 14, 2024. A graveside service will be held at Soule Chapel Cemetery, near Macon, MS., Tuesday, September 17, 2024, at 2:30 p.m. A visitation will be held at Cockrell Funeral Home Chapel Tuesday from 1-2 p.m. Memorials may be made to Soule Chapel Cemetery Fund, P.O....