Mortimer Funeral Home

Frances Kent Bright, 89, passed away Wednesday, April 20th, 2022 in her home in Tupelo, MS. She was born December 1st, 1932 in Ruleville, MS. She was a former resident of Greenville, MS where she was the Vice President of First National Bank before moving to Tupelo, MS where she was a resident for the last 18 years. She was of baptist faith. She is preceded in death by her husband, Harold Bright, her parents, Wesley Durwood Kent and Lessie Bell Perrigen, her sister, Becky Kent Staggs, and 3 brothers, Billy Kent, Bobby Kent, and Buddy Kent. She is survived by her 2 daughters, Donna Bright Jackson of Tupelo, MS, Beverly Bright (Bubba) Hood of West Monroe, LA, her son, Harold L.(Renee)...

Cadis (Katie) Evangeline Johnson, age 100, was called to heaven on Thursday, December 2, 2021 after complications from a recent stroke. She died in Memphis at St. Francis Hospital. Cadis was born December 17, 1920 in St. Louis, MO to the late Everette Edward Hook & Julia Ann Sittner Hook. During WWII, she worked as a stenographer for the U.S. Army Service Forces. In 1951, on September 1st, she married Wayland Van Avery Johnson and lived in Hillsboro, Missouri where they soon had four sons. The family moved to New Albany, MS in 1961, where she then worked at Mattie Thompson Elementary School as a teacher's aide, then as a secretary at The Vocational Center from where she retired after...