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Mrs. Lottie Jean Russell Otts, age 86, died unexpediently Tuesday, May 24, 2022, at her residence. She was born June 14, 1935 in Shaw, Mississippi to William Staton Russell and Roxie Lucille Word Russell. She married John Gillispie Otts on May 6, 1950. They moved to the Tupelo area in 1969 where she worked many years in the garment industry employed by Blue Bell. She also worked the last 20 years as a caregiver for the elderly. She was a member of Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witness on Monument Drive in Tupelo. Lottie enjoyed fishing, cleaning, quilting, and cooking. She enjoyed going out to eat with her children. She was a home-body who enjoyed being a homemaker. Services honoring...

Lottie Otts, 86, passed away Tuesday, May 24, 2022, at her residence in Beech Springs Community . Services will be on 12PM Saturday, May 28, 2022 at Sadie Holland Memorial Chapel. Visitation will be on 10AM-Service Time Saturday, May 28, 2022 at Holland Funeral Directors . Burial will follow at Locust Hill Cemetery .

Veteran Tupelo Police Department Officer, Lt. Jimmy L. "Cotton" McCoy, Retd. and decorated veteran of the Vietnam War folded his earthly tent and transformed to eternal rest on Monday morning, May 23, 2022 after a period of declining health. Cotton, as he was universally known, was born the third of six children born to Noel and Katie Putt McCoy. Growing up on Canal St. in east Tupelo, he attended Lawhon School, graduated from Tupelo High School in 1965 and attended ICC for two years. Cotton answered the call of his country and served in the U.S. Army during the heart of the Vietnam War. He was a mortar man with the 173rd Airborne Division and a paratrooper. For his bravery and courage,...

Jimmy "Cotton" McCoy, 74, passed away Monday, May 23, 2022, at Sunshine Health & Rehab in Pontotoc . Services will be on 2PM Friday, May 27, 2022 at Sadie Holland Memorial Chapel . Visitation will be on 5-7PM Thursday, May 26, 2022 at Holland Funeral Directors . Burial will follow at Oak Hill Cemetery .

Mrs. Frances Louise Whitlock Russell, age 84, left this world and entered her eternal home on Sunday, May 22, 2022. She was born to this life December 9, 1937, in Monroe Co., Mississippi to the union of Thomas Jefferson Whitlock and Jewel Allen Whitlock. She was one of eight children and was a graduate of Nettleton High School. Frances married the love of her life, Waylon Floyce Russell who died May 21, 1995, honoring their vows until her home-going. She was a loving wife, mother, sister, and grandmother, who adored her family. She was a virtuous woman being "much about Jesus", loving her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. She was a long-time member of Faith Outreach in Okolona. Frances...

Frances Whitlock Russell, 84, passed away Sunday, May 22, 2022, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Services will be on 5:30PM Sunday, May 29, 2022 at Holland Funeral Directors- Okolona . Visitation will be on 3PM-Service Time Sunday, May 29, 2022 at Holland Funeral Directors- Okolona . Burial will follow at East Chickasaw Memorial Gardens.

Edith Annette Haydock Leslie realized the joy and assurance of her salvation on Saturday, May 21, 2022 when she transformed to her eternal home from Shearer Richardson Nursing Center in Okolona. Annette was 85 years old. She was born March 20, 1937 in the Palmetto Community on the ole Haydock Farm to the late John M. Haydock and Eva Ivy Haydock Hall. She lived her entire life within sight of her birthplace! Annette graduated from Verona High School in l955 and was selected Miss Verona High School. She married Joe Leslie on October 22, 1955. She worked in area garment plants early on, then became a housewife/homemaker devoting all her time to her husband and 4 sons. Later in life,...

Terry Neal Bivens, 53, passed away Saturday, May 21, 2022, at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo. Services will be on 3 PM Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at the Okolona Chapel of Holland Funeral Directors. Visitation will be on 12 noon to service time Wednesday only at the funeral home. Burial will be in mount Moriah Cemetery in Bruce, MS. Holland Funeral Directors are entrusted with arrangements. Condolences may be posted at hollandfuneraldirectors.com..

Edith Annette Leslie, 85, passed away Saturday, May 21, 2022, at Shearer-Richardson Nursing Home in Okolona. Services will be on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at 6 PM at the Sadie Holland Memorial Chapel of Holland Funeral Directors. Visitation will be on Tuesday from 4 PM to service time. A full obituary will follow at a later date. Condolences to the family may be posted at hollandfuneraldirectors.com.

Mrs. Sybil Foster Brown, 84, went home to be with her Lord on Thursday, May 19, 2022. She was born to the late Walter Ellis Colvin and Joyce Wilder Speck Colvin on August 21, 1938 in Lee County, MS. During her younger adult life, Sybil was a homemaker caring for her children. She later worked in food service at East Union Attendance Center for 15 years before becoming disabled. Sybil enjoyed sewing, playing rook and dominoes, as well as reading love stories/novels. She was a member of Sherman Church of Christ. A celebration of life service will be at 11 AM, today, May 20, 2022 in the Tupelo Chapel of Holland Funeral Directors with Minister Donny Hamblin officiating. Burial will follow...

Dorothy Mae Manley Gauthier Shumpert departed this life for her life eternal with her Jesus on Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at NMMC in Tupelo. She had been a resident of the Reed Greenhouse at United Methodist Senior Services in Tupelo the last few years. Born Nov. 13, 1934 in Itawamba County, MS. to the James Larkin Manley and Hattie Mae Walley Manley, she spent most of her life as a housewife and homemaker. A member of the Nettleton Independent Methodist Church, Dorothy loved music especially Southern Gospel music, flowers, fishing especially at Grenada Lake, cooking and frying fish, traveling and loving on her grandchildren. an avid conversationalist, she was a die- hard Ole Miss fan. A...

He was grounded, adventurous, devoted to family and work and to his God and community .Danny Carl Pritchard was born on October 25, 1954 in Tupelo to the late Carl Pritchard and Evelyn Riley Pritchard, who survives. Danny, after a long and courageous illness, departed this life to meet his Creator and rejoin his family and friends gone before where the Circle will Never be Unbroken. Danny graduated from Tupelo High School in 1972 and received his Associate Degree from Itawamba Community College. A naturally born entrepreneur, Danny's sharp analytical mind and his contagious personality put him at the head of the pact in the business world . He owned The Treasure Chest in Tupelo many...

Dorothy Shumpert, 87, passed away Sunday, May 17, 2022, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Services will be on 2PM Thursday, May, 19, 2022 at Sadie Holland Memorial Chapel. Visitation will be on Noon-Service Time Thursday at Holland Funeral Directors .

Danny Pritchard, 67, passed away Monday, May 17, 2022, at NMMC in Tupelo. Services will be on Friday 2 PM at Holland Funeral Directors.

A grand lady, Annette Graham Post Fowler, departed this life reuniting with her loved ones and meeting her Savior on Monday, May 16, 2022 from Tupelo Health and Rehab Center where she had resided the last 3 years. Annette was born in the Palmetto Community of Lee County on June 26, l935 to the late Douglas Graham and Fleta Silas Graham. She attended the public schools of Lee County and met and married Milton Post in l952. Milton died Feb. 24, 2011. Annette was Milton's bookkeeper in Post Sand and Gravel for many years before becoming the Town Clerk in Plantersville, a job she held for 25 years before retiring. Her business skills and financial wizardry helped keep the Town in perfect...

Annette Fowler, 86, passed away Sunday, May 16, 2022, at Tupelo Nursing and Rehab in Tupelo. Services will be on 05/19/2022 11AM at Holland Funeral Directors. Visitation will be on 10AM at holland Funeral Directors.

Paul Allen Barnes was born to Quinton Lee and Margaret Hannigan Barnes on November 17, 1974. He was the youngest of 4 children. Raised in a loving home in the New Chapel Community, he attended church at Cason Baptist Church and later at New Chapel Church. He was a graduate of Nettleton High School, class of 1993. He made a trip to Paris after graduation, raising the money and paying for it himself. On his return, he immediately went to work for Penthouse Industries. Later he worked at Super Sagless, then American Commercial Barge Lines, and Behold Home Furnishings- Smithville Plant. He died as a result of injuries in a car wreck he received earlier in the day on May 15, 2022. He will...

Stephen Douglas Tidwell, 55, raced his race here with courage, service to others, and loving his family and friends supremely. After a two month battle with cancer, Stephen departed this life from Sanctuary Hospice House at 1:45 pm to live forever in his eternal home. Born in Ripley, Tippah County, Miss. on August 23, 1966 to Phillip Tidwell and Barbara Rainey Gattis, Stephen grew up in Ripley and the Furrs Community of Pontotoc County. He graduated Pontotoc High School in l984 and received his associates degree from Itawamba Community College. A great horseman who loved the outdoors, all nature, the land of which he was a master steward, and his horses and cattle, Stephen worked several...

The life of Gus Harrison London began its journey in Memphis, TN on Sept 25 1931. Shortly after his birth, he moved to Tupelo Mississippi where he grew up on Walnut street in the home of Gus and Ethel London. The eldest of four children, Harry as his family and friends knew him, went to Church Street Elementary, Milam Jr. High and Tupelo High School where he was Sr. Class President and part of the 1949 THSFootball Championship team. After High School, Harry departed for Baylor University with a desire to study the Bible and pursue a life of ministry. All of those plans took a turn when in his sophomore year, he met fellow classmate Barbara Batsone, a budding artist from Greeley,...

Katherine Agnew , 73, passed away on May 13, 2022, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo . Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Holland Funeral Directors-Tupelo.

"...A child that is born on the Sabbath Day is fair and wise and good in every way." Allison was born on Sunday morning, November 14, 1971, at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky. After moving wit h her parents to Fairbanks, Alaska, for two years, her formative years were spent in Jackson, Mississippi. She was a member of Covenant Presbyterian Church where she made lifelong friends. Allison attended First Presbyterian Day School and Jackson Preparatory School. She was Valedictorian of her senior class. Her friendships developed at Covenant and in school remained close to her throughout her life. They also gave her loving and meaningful support...