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GRACIE ANN MIMS, 44, of Memphis, homemaker, died Thursday at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis. The cause of death had not been determined pending an autopsy. N. J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. She leaves three daughters, TiJuana Mims and Laquita Mims, both of Memphis and Tamika Kirkwood of Springfield, Ill.; four sons, Cedric Mims, Dedric Mims, Robert Mims and Alvin Mims; her parents, Annie Bell Mims and Louis Mims; three sisters, Claudia Mims, Beverly Effeinger and La Quita Mims and three brothers, Larry Mims, Tony Mims and Louis Mims Jr., all of Memphis, and five grandchildren.
[Obit dated November 9, 2001]
JEAN TERRELL MURRY, 74, of Memphis, retired audit clerk for University of Tennessee, died of heart failure Tuesday in Joplin, Mo. Services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at Memorial Park Funeral Home. She was a Baptist. Mrs. Murry, the widow of Keven Murry, leaves two sons, William E. Wright Jr. of Kansas City, Mo., and Mike Wright of Joplin; a brother, Monte Terrell Jr. of Memphis, five grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.
[Obit dated November 9, 2001]
RONALD E. POLK JR., 22, of Atoka, died Monday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton in Covington of injuries from an auto accident. Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at St. John Baptist Church in Atoka with burial in the church cemetery there. Barlow Funeral Home in Covington has charge. He leaves his mother, Beverly McCoy; two brothers, Antonio Polk and Pierre Polk, both of Atoka, and her grandparents, Mattie J. Bumpus of Covington, Walker Polk Jr. of Memphis and Annie L. Clark of Atoka.
[Obit dated November 9, 2001]
ALICE BOMER SMITH, 94, of 5685 Shady Grove, retired teacher from the Nashville School System, died of pneumonia Thursday at Memphis Jewish Home. She was a member of Greater Middle Baptist Church. Mrs. Smith, the widow of Jarmen Smith, leaves a daughter, Arlie C. Dancy, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
[Obit dated November 9, 2001]
ELIZABETH WALLS, 74, of 1233 Louisville, homemaker, died of heart failure Tuesday at Methodist Healthcare-Central. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at N. H. Owens & Son Funeral Home with burial in Union cemetery. She leaves a daughter, Helen Jones; six sisters, Chris Stewart, Rosa Stewart, LaVearn Jones, Doris Stewart, Earlean Owens and Rena Jones, all of Memphis; two brothers, Simon Stewart of Memphis and Columbus Stewart of Grand Rapids, Mich., and three grandchildren.
[Obit dated November 9, 2001]
C. W. WEST, 81, of Memphis, died of heart failure Thursday at his home. N. J. Ford & Sons Funeral Home has charge. Mr. West, the husband of Rosie West, also leaves two daughters, Mable Williams and Lula Pollard, both of Memphis, 12 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild.
[Obit dated November 9, 2001]
JOSEPHINE WHITFIELD, 67, of Memphis, died of heart failure Thursday at Methodist Healthcare-Central. M. J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home has charge. She was a member of Old Nonconnah Missionary Baptist Church. She leaves a daughter, Annette Taylor of Memphis; two sons, John Whitfield of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Thomas Whitfield of Forest Park, Ohio; a companion with whom she lived, Eddie Bennett, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
[Obit dated November 9, 2001]
JAMES YORK, 39, of Collierville, laborer, died of smoke inhalation Nov. 1 in Collierville. Services will be at noon Saturday at New Stinson Community Church in Rossville, Tenn., with burial in Bethlehem cemetery there. McGhee & Sons Funeral Home in Holly Springs, Miss., has charge. He leaves a daughter, Stenella Bonner of Collierville; his mother, Annie B. York; two sisters, Shunljonia L. York and Annie Mae York, both of Oakland, Tenn.; four brothers, John Henry York and Jerry York, both of Memphis, and Willie B. York and Robert York Jr., both of Macon, Tenn., and his grandmother, Willie Mae Patterson. The family requests that memorials be sent to the Burn Foundation.
[Obit dated November 9, 2001]
CHESTER BROOKS, 71, of Senatobia, Miss., maintenance supervisor for Senatobia Housing Authority, died of heart failure Sunday at North Oak Regional Medical Center in Senatobia. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Beulah Missionary Baptist Church in Como, Miss., where he was a deacon, trustee and care keeper, with burial in the church cemetery there. Felix Cauthen Funeral Home in Senatobia has charge. Mr. Brooks, the husband of Vernice Jackson Brooks, also leaves local survivors including a daughter, Antornette Ross of Nesbit; two sons, Chester Brooks Jr. and Willie Gene Brooks, both of Memphis, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
[Obit dated November 9, 2001]
OMA HANKINS DAWSON, 94, of Holly Springs, Miss., homemaker, died of heart failure Wednesday at Saint Francis Hospital. Services will be at 1 p.m. today at Holly Springs Funeral Home with burial in Hillcrest cemetery. She was a Methodist. Mrs. Dawson, the widow of John H. 'Jack' Dawson, leaves local survivors including two daughters, Kathleen Jenkins of Memphis and Joyce Culbreth of Cordova, 18 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild.
[Obit dated November 9, 2001]
FRANCES FAIR, 94, of Clarksdale, Miss., died of heart failure Nov. 3 at Clarksdale Nursing Center. Services will be at noon Saturday at King Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Clarksdale with burial in McLaurin Garden there. Royal Funeral Home in Clarksdale has charge. She was a mother board member of White Stone Missionary Baptist Church. She leaves local survivors including two daughters, Doris Harrison and Lois Bernard, both of Memphis, 50 grandchildren, 100 great-grandchildren and 18 great-great-grandchildren.
[Obit dated November 9, 2001]
GRACIE BERRY WILLIAMS, 99, of Michigan City, Miss., homemaker and retired farmer, died of heart failure Saturday at her home. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Williams Temple Church of God in Christ in Moscow, Tenn., with burial in Williams Family cemetery in Michigan City. J. F. Brittenum & Son Funeral Home in Holly Springs, Miss., has charge. She was a member of Berry's Chapel CME Church. Mrs. Williams, the widow of Edmond Williams, leaves local survivors including a son, Hugh Loyd Williams of Memphis, 43 grandchildren, 94 great-grandchildren, 43 great-great-grandchildren and nine great-great-great-grandchildren.
[Obit dated November 9, 2001]
NATALIE OLIVIA ANDINO, infant daughter of Alba Elizabet Juarez and Jose Orlando Andino of Memphis, died of heart failure Monday at Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Memphis Memory Gardens. Family Funeral Care Summer Avenue Chapel has charge. She also leaves two sisters, Carol Nicol Andino and Lisa Reveca Andino, and a brother, Jose Miguel Andino, all of Memphis.
[Obit dated November 8, 2001]
KARON KEARNEY BAKER, 39, of Gulfport, Miss., formerly of Memphis, homemaker, died of heart failure Wednesday at Memorial Hospital in Gulfport. Services will be at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Riemann Funeral Home in Long Beach, Miss., with burial in Gulf Pines Memorial Gardens & Mausoleum there. She was a graduate of Long Beach High School and a communicant of St. Thomas Catholic Church in Long Beach. Mrs. Baker, the wife of Keith Baker, also leaves a son, Michael Gabriel Richardson of Long Beach; her mother and stepfather, Vivia and Don Adams of Memphis; her father and stepmother, Dr. Russell and Jane Kearney of Long Beach; a sister, Mary Lu Haynes of Collierville; a brother, Robert Kearney of Vicksburg, Miss.; two stepsisters, Ellen Beaty of Spring Valley, Calif., and Edie Denson of Geneva, Fla., and a stepbrother, James Thompson of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
[Obit dated November 8, 2001]
ORA BELL BENSON, 86, of Memphis, died of pneumonia Saturday at Methodist Healthcare-North. Services will be at noon Friday at Peace Baptist Church with burial in Hopewell cemetery. M. J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. Benson, the wife of Ernest Benson, also leaves a daughter, Verna M. Benson, and five stepchildren, all of Memphis, six grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
[Obit dated November 8, 2001]
ALBERTA BRIDGET, 54, of Memphis, died of heart failure Sunday at Delta Medical Center. Services will be at noon Saturday at Hudsonville CME Church in Slayden, Miss., with burial in the church cemetery. M. J. Edwards & Sons Funeral Home has charge. Mrs. Bridget, the wife of Fred Bridget, also leaves three daughters, Michelle Little, Staice Bridget and Tavia Bridget, all of Memphis; a son, Raymond Johnson of Flint, Mich., and her parents, Geneva and James Moore, all of Mt. Pleasant; three sisters, Terri McAfee of Mt. Pleasant, Versie Wright of Memphis and Jennette Sulivan of Rossville; four brothers, Alvin Moore, Scottie Moore and Ralph Moore, all of Mt. Pleasant, and Marvell Moore of Lake Cormorant, and nine grandchildren.
[Obit dated November 8, 2001]
