Obituaries
Brenda Joyce Gitter
Dec 20, 2018
Brenda Joyce Gitter, age 70, passed away Thursday morning, December 20, 2018 at Diversicare in Batesville.
Funeral services will be 12:00 P.M. Saturday, December 22, 2018, in the Martin Willingham Memorial Chapel of Wells Funeral Home with the family receiving friends at 10:00 A.M prior to the service.
Brenda was born August 3, 1948 in Memphis, TN to the late...
Betty Lee Robison
Dec 14, 2018
Betty Lee Hall Robison, age 87, passed away Friday, December 14, 2018, at her home in Batesville, MS. She is the widow of the late John Whitson Robison, Jr.
Funeral services will be 1:00 P.M. Thursday, December 20, 2018, at the Batesville Presbyterian Church with interment to follow in Magnolia Cemetery in Batesville, MS. The family will receive friends beginning...
James Wood
Dec 13, 2018
James E. "Jim" Wood, age 73, passed away Thursday morning, December 13, 2018, at his home in Memphis, TN.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 15, 2018 in the Martin Willingham Memorial Chapel of Wells Funeral Home in Batesville with visitation beginning at 12 noon. Interment will follow the service at Longtown Cemetery.
Jim...
Virginia Louise Ridgeway
Dec 10, 2018
Virginia Louise Ridgeway, age 77, passed away Monday, December 10, 2018 at her son's home in Batesville, MS.
Funeral services will be 11:00 A.M. Thursday, December 13, 2018, in the Martin Willingham Memorial Chapel of Wells Funeral Home with interment to follow in Magnolia Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Rev Kolby Ganaway will...
Linda Harden Floyd
Dec 5, 2018
Linda Harden Floyd, age 73, passed away December 5, 2018, at her home in Pope, MS.
There will be a memorial service at 11:00 A.M. on Saturday, December 8, 2018, at the First United Methodist Church in Batesville, MS. The family will be receiving friends one hour prior to the service on Saturday. Rev. Ed Woodall and Rev. Ed Temple...
Michael Paul McCullar
Dec 3, 2018
Michael Paul McCullar, age 35, passed away late Monday night, December 3, 2018 at his home in Sardis, MS.
Funeral services will be 11:00 A.M. Friday, December 7, 2018, in the Martin Willingham Chapel of Wells Funeral Home with interment to follow in Longtown Cemetery in Crenshaw, MS. The family will be receiving friends Thursday evening, December 6, 2018, from...
Billie Gene McCarty
Nov 30, 2018
Billie Gene "Fish Lady" McCarty, age 88, passed away Friday, November 30, 2018, at her home near Sardis, MS. Funeral services will be 3:00 P.M. Monday, December 3, 2018, in the Martin Willingham Memorial Chapel of Wells Funeral Home with interment to follow in Union Cemetery in Sardis, MS. The family will be receiving friends beginning at 1:00 P.M. Monday...
Elizabeth Wright
Nov 30, 2018
Mary Elizabeth Wright, age 28, passed away Friday morning, November 30, 2018 at her home in Courtland, MS. The family will receive friends for visitation time from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday evening, December 1, 2018 at Wells Funeral Home in Batesville. Elizabeth was born June 23, 1990 to Tony Wayne Wright and Mary Kathryn Brewer Wright in Clarksdale....
Nora Taylor Warren
Nov 29, 2018
Nora Warren, age 95, passed away at her home Thursday evening, November 29, 2018, in Courtland, MS. There will be no services at this time.Nora was born June 2, 1923 in Kildwick, England to the late Charles and Ruth Clarkson Taylor. Ms. Warren was a homemaker.She is survived by her loving companion of over twenty years, Richard G. Johnson of ...
Thomas Earl Burkley
Nov 29, 2018
Thomas Earl Burkley, age 73, passed away Thursday evening, November 29, 2018 at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford, MS. Thomas was the husband of Bonnie Burkley of Batesville. Funeral services for Mr. Burkley will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 2, 2018 in the Martin Willingham Memorial Chapel of Wells Funeral Home in Batesville with visitation beginning...
William Powell Atkinson
Nov 28, 2018
William (Will) Powell Atkinson, age 46, passed away November 28, 2018, at his home in Oxford, Miss.A private memorial service was held in Oxford on December 1, for immediate family.Will was born May 12, 1972, to Sandra Jo Brown Atkinson and the late William Edward “Bill” Atkinson in Jackson, Miss. He spent his youth in Pickens, Miss. A 1991 graduate...
Helen Hansen Bell
Nov 26, 2018
Helen Hansen Bell, age 85, passed away Monday morning, November 26, 2018, at Baptist Memorial Hospital of North MS in Oxford, MS. Helen was the widow of the late James F. Bell. Funeral services for Mrs. Bell will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, November 30, 2018 in the Martin Willingham Memorial Chapel of Wells Funeral Home in Batesville...
Tommie L. Joiner
Nov 25, 2018
Tommie L. Joiner, age 93, passed away Sunday evening, November 25, 2018, at the Mississippi State Veterans Home in Oxford, MS. Mr. Joiner was the husband of Fay Wilson Joiner.Funeral services for Mr. Joiner will be held at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 27, 2018 in the Martin Willingham Memorial Chapel of Wells Funeral Home in Batesville with visitation beginning at...
Debbie M. Billingsley
Nov 24, 2018
Leslie Deborah Musgrove "Debbie" Billingsley, age 59, passed away November 24, 2018 at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford, MS. Debbie was the widow of Maxwell H. Billingsley, Jr. There will be a memorial service for Debbie held at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 in the Martin Willingham Memorial Chapel of Wells Funeral Home in Batesville with visitation...
Shirley "Bittie" Ann Tubbs Floyd
Nov 24, 2018
Shirley Ann Tubbs "Bittie" Floyd, age 82, passed away Saturday, November 24, 2018, at her son's home in Batesville, MS. Mrs. Floyd was the widow of the late James Dale Floyd.Funeral services will be 1:00 P.M. Saturday, December 1, 2018, at Hosanna Family Worship Center in Pope, MS with interment to follow in Rose Hill Cemetery in Sardis, MS. The...
David E. Johns
Nov 23, 2018
David E. Johns, age 68, passed away Friday evening, November 23, 2018, at the V.A. Medical Center in Jackson, MS.Funeral services for Mr. Johns will be held at 2:00 on Wednesday, November 28, 2018 in the Martin Willingham Memorial Chapel of Wells Funeral Home in Batesville. Visitation will be held Tuesday evening from 5:00 to 8:00 at the funeral home....
Juanita D. Newman
Nov 22, 2018
Juanita D. Newman, age 93, passed away late Thursday evening, November 22, 2018 at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford, MS. Funeral services will be 2:00 P.M. Sunday, November 25, 2018, in the Martin Willingham Memorial Chapel of Wells Funeral Home with the family receiving friends one hour prior to the service. The interment will follow in Bethel Cemetery near...
Eddie Best
Nov 21, 2018
Eddie Paul "Little Paul" Best, Jr., age 48, passed away Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at the Winona Manor Nursing Home in Winona, MS. "Little Paul" was born July 28, 1970 to Hazel Cook Best and the late Eddie Paul Best, Sr. in Quitman County. He was a member of the Enid Lake Baptist Church. "Little Paul" enjoyed fishing, drawing, arts...
Matthew Coleman
Nov 19, 2018
Riley Matthew Coleman, age 56, passed away Monday, November 19, 2018, at his home in Batesville, MS.A memorial service for Matthew will be 6:00 P.M. Friday, November 23, 2018 in the Martin Willingham Memorial Chapel of Wells Funeral Home with the family receiving friends beginning at 4:00 P.M.Matthew was born on May 19, 1962 to the late Virginia Dayle Baker...
Jeannie Laughlin Fitts
Nov 19, 2018
Jeannie Sue Laughlin Fitts, age 90, passed away on November 19, 2018 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford, MS. Funeral services for Mrs. Fitts will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 24, 2018 at Peach Creek Baptist Church, with visitation beginning at 12 noon. Interment will follow the service at Peach Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. Rev. Bobby Caples...
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