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Roberson
HELM Funeral services for Willie Mae Roberson, 81, of Helm will be Saturday at 1 p.m. at Old White Stone MB Church, Helm. She died May 29, 2003, at The King's Daughters Hospital, Greenville. Burial will be in Helm Cemetery under the direction of Dillon Funeral Home, Leland.
Mrs. Roberson was a faithful choir member until her health failed.
She was united in holy matrimony to James Roberson, who preceded her in death. Their son, Johnny Roberson, also preceded her in death.
Survivors include three daughters, Willie Jean Parker and Fannie Roberson, both of Leland, and Catherine Roberson of Capital Heights, Md.; three sons, Tommy (Josie) Roberson of Greenville, Albert (Rita) Roberson of Columbus, Ga., and Jerome (Frances) Roberson of Woodford, Va.; two sisters, Cora B. Rucker and Augusta Anderson, both of Leland; two brothers, M.T. Holloway of Greenville and J.B. Holloway of Detroit; 15 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
Visitation will be Friday from 1 to 5 p.m. at Dillon Funeral Home, Leland.
The Rev. Carlton Earles will officiate.
Turner
GREENVILLE Funeral arrangements for Myrna Turner, 25, of Greenville are pending at Redmon Funeral Home, Greenville. She died June 4, 2003, at Delta Regional Medical Center, Greenville.
Washington
GREENVILLE Funeral services for Arthur Lee "Richard" Washington, 55, of Greenville will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at Little Sister MB Church, Avon. He died May 29, 2003, at Veterans Administration Hospital, Jackson. Burial will be in Little Sister MB Church Cemetery under the direction of Harris-Brown & Marion Funeral Home, Greenville.
Mr. Washington was born in Arcola, Miss., on July 26, 1947. He was the son of the late Dale and Hattie Washington. He was an Army veteran who served his country by spending 18 months in Vietnam. He served his country for three years.
He was preceded in death by brothers Dale Washington Jr. and Earnest Washington, and sister Pearl Washington Sanders.
He is survived by his wife, Ruby Washington; a daughter, Wanda D. Callion; five brothers, Albert Johnson, William Washington, Wesley Washington, Willie Washington and Henry Washington; two sisters, Ledora Smith Jones and Hattie Washington; and a host of nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be Friday from 5 to 6 p.m. at Harris-Brown & Marion Funeral Home, Greenville.
Booth
MATHISTON Funeral services and a musical tribute for Myrtle Louisa Haynes Booth, 96, of Mathiston, a retired music teacher and church musician, will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at Mathiston First Baptist Church. She died of complications from pneumonia Sept. 26, 2002, at her home. Burial will be in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery, Choctaw County, under the direction of Oliver Funeral Home, Eupora.
Visitation will be Saturday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Oliver Funeral Home, Eupora. She was the widow of Joseph Edley Booth, a rural mail carrier and Bible scholar who died in 1974.
She served as a member of the alumni board of directors for Wood College, and was honored there by the town of Mathiston with "Myrtle Booth Day" in 1987. Most recently, she was the central subject of "Ms. Booth's Garden," an exhibition of photographs at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson and the Center for Southern Culture in Oxford, and a book of the same name published by the museum and the University Press of Mississippi, by her grandson, Jack Kotz. Her portrait, "Myrtle Booth In Her Woods," is in the photography collection of the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.
Born June 2, 1906, near Savannah in Hardin County, Tenn., Mrs. Booth was the daughter of Lynn Henson Haynes and Robert Lee Haynes. Her father, a lumberman, brought the first steam-powered sawmill to Mississippi and is said to have driven the first automobile into the state. The family moved from Tennessee to Waterloo, Ala., in 1911, then to Corinth, Miss., to Alcorn and Prentiss counties. They brought the mill to Choctaw County in 1920, and the Haynes family purchased the old "Dobbs Plantation" by old Mount Pisgah Church, near Mathiston.
On March 5, 1922, at Pisgah church, she married Joseph Edley Booth at 15 and moved to her present home, an 1840s frame house on Old Natchez Trace Road in Mathiston. She graduated from Bennett Academy (now Wood College) in Mathiston with a degree in music and dietetics, and began her 60-year career as a music teacher. She taught public school music, directing choruses and rhythm bands, and staging operettas and recitals, and gave private piano lessons. She taught in Webster, Choctaw and Oktibbeha counties, at Mathiston, Clarkson, Cumberland, Sherwood, Reform and Walthall schools, as well as in Houlka and Itta Bena public schools and private French Camp Academy.
For 77 years, Mrs. Booth served as pianist, choir director, and later as organist at First Baptist Church in Mathiston. As music director of the Zion Baptist Association, she taught singing-schools in churches in Webster, Choctaw, Winston and Oktibbeha counties. She was active in local and state gospel singing conventions, often playing piano to accompany quartets such as the original Blackwood Brothers and Booth Brothers. For many years, she played and sang on a weekly radio program, "Mrs. Booth's Hymn Time," on station WSSO, Starkville. After her retirement, she organized weekly community singings for nursing homes in Eupora, Starkville and Ackerman. She also accompanied or led music at American Legion conventions and rural letter carrier conventions.
In the 1950s, she succeeded her husband as a rural mail carrier in Mathiston, driving along country roads in Choctaw County, where, as a young woman, she had been an avid horsewoman. Her passion for fishing took her to ponds, lakes and creeks in the Mississippi countryside as well.
Mrs. Booth was preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Edley Booth; and their two sons, Robert Henry Booth, a publisher, writer and musician, and Jerry Harold Booth, a nuclear physicist. She is survived by her daughter, Mary Lynn Kotz of Washington, D.C., an author and journalist, and son-in-law, journalist Nick Kotz; granddaughters Scarlet Timphony of Los Angeles, Roberta Booth of Wellington, New Zealand and Seana Mallory of Virginia; and grandsons, Jack Kotz of Santa Fe, N.M., Gerald Booth of Alexandria, Va., and George Sweeten of Phoenix, Ariz..
Her oldest great-grandchild, Shane Thompson, was killed in a New Zealand plane crash on Christmas Day 1999. Surviving great-grandchildren are James Joseph Timphony, Nathan Bennett Kotz, William and Elizabeth Sweeten, and Josephine Gerrilee Booth. A sister, Lorene Scarberry, lives in Duck Hill, Miss.; and brothers Boyd L. Haynes in Greenville, Miss., and L.C. Haynes in Cullman, Ala. Brothers Grady and Claude Haynes, and sister Louise Haynes Raper, preceded her in death.
The family has requested that memorial contributions by made to the Booth Lacey Yates theater at Eupora Arts Inc., P.O. Box 867, Eupora, Miss. 39744, or to the music program at Mathiston First Baptist Church.
Courtney
BELZONI Funeral services for Mary Grace Courtney, 45, of Belzoni will be Sunday at 3 p.m. at Mount Carmel MB Church, Belzoni. She died of heart failure Oct. 2, 2002, at Humphreys County Memorial Hospital, Belzoni. Burial will be in Mount Carmel MB Church Cemetery under the direction of Delta Burial Corporation, Belzoni.
Survivors include one son, Roderick Courtney of Belzoni; her mother, Rosie Lucus of Belzoni; her stepfather, Tillie Lucus of Belzoni; three sisters, Martha Shields and Norma Quinn, both of Belzoni, and Doris Lucus of Glen Allan; two brothers, Robert Patterson of Texas and Donald Lucus of Belzoni; and many nieces and nephews.
Emphreys
GREENVILLE Funeral arrangements for Lonnie Emphreys, 50, of San Francisco and formerly of Greenville are pending at Redmon Funeral Home, Greenville. He died Sept. 16, 2002, in San Francisco.
Evans
GREENVILLE Funeral services for Manuel Mckinley Evans, 32, of Greenville will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church, Greenville. He died Sept. 24, 2002, at Mississippi Firefighters Memorial Burn Center, Greenville. Burial will be in Delta Memorial Gardens, Greenville, under the direction of Byas Funeral Home, Greenville.
He was preceded in death by his father, Mckinley Evans; three brothers, Michael Evans, Derrick Evans and Maurice Evans; and one cousin, Francine Austin.
Survivors include his mother, Blanche Evans of Greenville; his fiancι, Ann Cannon of Greenville; his grandmother, Earnestine Taylor of Detroit; four sisters, Ruth Michelle Love and Veronica Petic, both of Detroit, Patricia Evans of Florida and Freda Lynn Claus of North Carolina; two brothers, Thomas Avery of Detroit and Louis Avery of Jackson; two uncles, Harold Dorris and Early Dorris Jr., both of Detroit; and five aunts, Catherine Bates and Carol Turner, both of Detroit, Janie of West Memphis, Ark., Joyce Lewis of Chicago and Rosie Dennison of Houston, Texas.
Visitation will be today from 2 to 6 p.m. at Byas Funeral Home, Greenville.
The Rev. A.M. Hines is pastor. The Rev. Jessie Smith will officiate.
Gray
JACKSON Funeral services for Lefloura "Dago" Callion Gray, 74, of Jackson and formerly of Leland will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at Abundant Life Bible Fellowship Church, 485 Northside Drive, Jackson. She died Sept. 26, 2002, at St. Dominic Hospital, Jackson. Burial will be in Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Jackson, under the direction of Westhaven Memorial Funeral Home, Jackson.
She is survived by one sister, Katie Callion Carter of Leland.
Hughes
CLEVELAND Funeral services for Leon Hughes, 26, of Cleveland will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at New St. Phillip MB Church, Cleveland. He died Sept. 28, 2002, at University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson. Burial will be in Westlawn Cemetery, Cleveland, under the direction of Byas Funeral Home, Cleveland.
Survivors include his mother, Louella Hughes of Cleveland; one son, Keveon Wade of Cleveland; and one sister, Bobbie Hughes of Cleveland.
Visitation will be today from 2 to 6 p.m. at Byas Funeral Home, Cleveland.
Madison
GREENVILLE Funeral services for Eddie Madison, 72, of Greenville, a brick mason, will be Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at Pilgrim Home MB Church, Greenville. He died Sept. 30, 2002, at his home. Burial will be in Lakewood Cemetery, Greenville, under the direction of Watson-Edwards & Evans Funeral Home, Greenville.
Mr. Madison was born in Lafourche, La., to the late Roosevelt Ford and the late Della Ford. He confessed a hope in Christ at an early age. He attended school in Leland, Miss., and served in the Korean Conflict from 1951 to 1953. He was preceded in death by his parents and one daughter, Earnestine Madison.
He leaves to cherish his memory a devoted wife, Doyle Madison of Greenville; a daughter, Yvonne of New York; two sons, Carvell of Smyrna, Ga., and William of Atlanta, Ga.; one brother, the Rev. Amos Charles (Stella) Turner of Memphis; one aunt, Hattie Ford of Chicago; four grandsons, Terence, T.J.., Toby and Troy, all of Chicago; one granddaughter, Samone of Atlanta, Ga.; several other great-grandchildren; and a host of special nieces, nephews, cousins and close friends.
Visitation will be today from 1 to 6 p.m., with family hour from 6 to 7 p.m., at Watson-Edwards & Evans Funeral Home chapel, Greenville. The remains will lie in state at the church Saturday from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
The Rev. Fredrick Price Sr. will officiate.
Thomas
CLEVELAND Funeral services for Juanita Thomas, 72, of Cleveland will be Saturday at noon at Antioch MB Church, Shaw. She died Sept. 27, 2002, at Bolivar Medical Center, Cleveland. Burial will be in Westlawn Cemetery, Cleveland, under the direction of Byas Funeral Home, Cleveland.
Survivors include one daughter, Jeanette McGee of West Point; four sons, the Rev. Lee A. Williams of Woonsocket, R.I., Jimmy Lee Clark of Memphis, Robert Earl Williams of Choctaw and James Williams Jr. of Racine, Wis.; three sisters, Melzena Stovall of Kansas City, Mo., Martha Ingram of Shaw and Pinkie B. Clark of Cleveland, Miss.; five brothers, T.J. Clark and W.C. Clark, both of Kansas City, Mo., and Andrew Clark Jr., Willie J. Clark and Samuel Clark, all of Cleveland; 15 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be today from 2 to 6 p.m., with family hour from 6 to 8 p.m., at Byas Funeral Home, Cleveland.
The Rev. B.T. Moore will officiate.
Allen
INDIANOLA -- Funeral services for Damion Dominic Allen, 19, of Indianola will be Tuesday at noon at Mt. Beulah MB Church, Indianola. He died Nov. 26, 2002, at Hospice in His Hand, Madden, Miss. Burial will be in Riverside Memorial Garden, Indianola, under the direction of Walker Funeral Home, Rolling Fork.
Survivors include his father, Richard Allen of Mayersville; mother, Mary Francis Butler of Indianola; three sisters, Brittiny Barnes and Shandricka Barnes, both of Mayersville, and Robin Allen of Glen Allan; and three brothers, Richard Cartlidge of Indianola, and Kevin Allen and Derrick Barnes, both of Mayersville.
A wake will be Monday from 6 to 7 p.m. at Walker Funeral Home, Rolling Fork.
The Rev. Obidiah Hall will officiate.
