OBITUARY LISTINGS

Maude Faith Crabtree

Jul 30, 2018

Maude Faith Crabtree passed to her Heavenly home Monday morning leaving quite the legacy.  Faith was born April 10, 1933 in Macon, MS and reared in the same house from which she was born.  Faith attended and graduated from Macon High School, where she was Miss MHS, Most Intellectual, and Homecoming Maid for 4 years.

She married...

William "Bill" Frank Hayden

Jul 28, 2018

William Frank “Bill” Hayden, 86, died July 28, 2018, at his home in the Fairport Community of Noxubee County.

Graveside services will be Tuesday July 31, 2018 at 11:00 AM at Bethesda Baptist Church Cemetery with Rev. Russell Mord officiating.   Visitation will be one hour prior to services at Bethesda Baptist Church. Memorials may be made to...

Patricia Bannon Swanson

Jul 18, 2018

Mrs. Patricia “Pat” Swanson, 85, of Eutaw, Alabama passed away peacefully at the UAB Medical Center in Birmingham, AL on Wednesday, July 18, 2017. There will be a visitation for her friends from the south at Cockrell Funeral Home in Macon, MS on Friday, July 20, from 5:00 until 8:00 P.M. Her funeral service will be held at Maus...

Jerry Butler

Jul 12, 2018

Jerry Butler, 77, of Meridian, MS passed away peacefully at his residence on Thursday, July 12, 2018. His funeral service will be held on Monday, July 16 at 2:00 P.M. at Butler Pentecostal Church near Shuqualak, MS. with Bro. Gerald Butler officiating. Interment will follow in Butler Cemetery. Visitation will be held Monday from 1:00 until 2:00 P.M. at...

Mildred Eaves Higginbotham

Jul 5, 2018

Mrs. Mildred Eaves Higginbotham of Shuqualak, MS passed away on Thursday, July 5, 2018 at the Bee Hive Assisted Living in Louisville, MS. She was 88 years old. She was born in Shuqualak on January 28, 1930 to the late Leland and Theola Adcock Eaves and grew up in the Shuqualak area where she attended the Shuqualak School. On...

Terri Lynne Mosley Howard

Jul 3, 2018

Terri Lynne  Mosley Howard, 55, was born June 18, 1963 in Bloomington, Illinois. She died July 3, 2018 at Anderson Hospital in Meridian, MS. She was a 1980 graduate of West Kemper High School and held an Associate degree from EMJC.

Terri Lynne was a long time employee of Prime Line Catfish. She also worked for the...

Grady Hunter, Sr.

Jun 29, 2018

Grady Hunter, Sr., 93, of Macon, MS  passed away on Friday, June 29, 2018 at Noxubee County Nursing Home.

A graveside service will be held at Oddfellows Cemetery Sunday, July 1, 2018  at 2 p.m. Memorials may be made to the American Diabetes Association, 2451 Crystal Drive, Suite 900, Arlington, VA  22202. Cockrell Funeral Home is entrusted...

Raymond L Slawson

Jun 19, 2018

Raymond Slawson, 81, of Macon, MS passed away at Noxubee General Hospital in Macon on Tuesday, June 19, 2018. Raymond was born in Louisville, MS on February 3, 1937 to the late Roger L. and Lennie Reed Slawson. He attended Ellison Ridge School in Winston County. While still a teenager, Raymond moved to Detroit, Michigan and in 1960, he...

Betty Healy

Jun 15, 2018

Betty Thomas Healy, Madison, MS.

Mrs. Healy, 82, of Madison, MS, formerly of Macon, MS, passed away Friday, June 15, 2018 at St. Dominic’s Hospital in Jackson, MS. Her funeral service will be Monday June 18, 2018 at 4:00 PM at First Baptist Church of Madison Chapel. A visitation for family and friends will precede the service...

Donald Seiler

Jun 13, 2018

Donald Seiler, Macon, MS

Donald Seiler, 91, of Macon, MS passed away Wednesday, June 13, 2018 at Oakwood Manor in Brooksville, MS.  Funeral services will be held at Southern Star Mennonite Church in Geiger, Al at 10:15 a.m. Saturday, June 16, 2018. Interment will follow in Souls Chapel Cemetery.  Visitation will be held at the church Friday...

Robert "Chico" Oswalt

Jun 10, 2018

Robert “Chico” Oswalt, 57, passed away at his residence on Sunday, June 10, 2018. A memorial service is planned for Friday, June 15, 2018 at 2 p.m. at Noxubee Full Gospel Christian Center in Macon, MS. Visitation will be held at the funeral home Thursday, June 14, 2018 from 5-7 p.m. Memorials may be made to Cockrell Funeral Home...

Diane Lynn Metheny

Jun 8, 2018

Mrs. Diane L. Metheny, 59, of Macon, MS passed away on June 8, 2018 at Aliceville Manor in Aliceville, AL.  There are no plans for any service at this time.

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Henry Lamar Jernigan

Jun 7, 2018

Mr. Henry Jernigan, 78, of Macon, MS passed away at his residence on Thursday, June 07, 2018. A funeral service is planned for Saturday, June 9, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. at Cockrell Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Bill Ross officiating. Interment is PRIVATE and for the family only. A visitation will be held one hour prior to the service...

Dorothy Elloine Boykin

May 29, 2018

Mrs. Dorothy Elloine Boykin, 95, of Brooksville, MS passed away Tuesday, May 29, 2018 at Noxubee General Hospital in Macon, MS.  A graveside service is planned for Friday, June 1, 2018 at Brooksville Cemetery immediately following a visitation at Cockrell Funeral Home Chapel from 11-12 p.m. Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer’s Foundation, 322 Eighth Ave, 7 th...

Wanda Faye Adams

May 23, 2018

Mrs. Wanda Adams, 70, of Shuqualak, MS passed away at Noxubee County Nursing Home on Wednesday, May 23, 2018. Her funeral service will be held on Saturday, May 26 at 10:00 A.M. at Butler Pentecostal Church with Bro. Ronnie Cartwright, Bro. Gerald Butler, and Bro. Danny Ray Coleman officiating. Interment will follow in Butler Cemetery. Visitation will be held...

Hadley Belle Koehn

May 19, 2018

Hadley Belle Koehn, infant daughter of Seth and Karla Koehn, was stillborn on Saturday, May 19, 2018 at Baptist Memorial Hospital, Columbus, MS. Graveside services will be held on Monday, May 21, 2018 at Brooksville Mennonite Cemetery at 11:00 a.m. Cockrell Funeral Home of Macon, Miss is entrusted with arrangements.

Baby Hadley Belle Koehn is also survived...

Orie James Lane, Jr.

May 15, 2018

Orie James Lane, Jr., passed away on Tuesday, May 15, 2018, at Veteran’s Memorial Home in Kosciusko, MS. He was born September 15, 1930 in Noxubee County, to Orie James Lane, Sr. and Vera Mercy Sly. Mr. Lane graduated from Macon High School and received his Bachelor of Science degree from Mississippi State University.

Mr. Lane was...

Mary Beth Watt

May 12, 2018

Mary Beth Watt, 41, of Como, MS passed away at her residence on Saturday, May 12, 2018. Her funeral service will be held at Cooksville United Methodist Church near Macon, MS at 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, May 16, with Bro Glenn Miller officiating. Interment will follow in the family plot in Cooksville Cemetery. Visitation will be from 10:30 until...

Sam Heard

May 8, 2018

Sam R. “Tiny” Heard passed away on May 8, 2018 of natural causes at his home.  He was born on April 6, 1929.  He was a life-long resident of Brooksville except while on a football scholarship at East Mississippi Jr. College and a few years in New York while working on the New Jersey Turnpike.  Big Tiny was loved...

Jane Britton Glenn

May 6, 2018

Jane B. Glenn,  87, of Huntsville passed away 5/6. Visitation 5/12, 10 - 12, at Monte Sano UMC, followed by the memorial service at 12:00. Berryhill FH assisted the family.

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