Obituaries 12-23-11

Published 12:00 am Friday, December 23, 2011

BATESVILLE – Michael “Mikey” Charles Carden, 50, died Tuesday, December 20, 2011, from injuries received in an auto accident.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday at Wells Funeral Home. Burial will be in Forrest Memorial Park. Visitation will be held from noon until service time.

Carden, born Oct. 12, 1961, in Denver., to Charles Everett Carden and the late Anne Elizabeth Benard Carden, was a self contractor and served his country in the U.S. Army.

Survivors include: Alice Pool of Batesville; two daughters, Maria Ann Carden of Gastonia, N.C., Patricia Montgomery of Oxford; one son, Joshua Ray Carden of Batesville; his father, Charles Everett Carden of Hudson, Colo.; one sister, Melissa Parish of Olive Branch; two brothers, Mark Ray of Arizona, C.J. Carden of Denver; and one grandson.

BATESVILLE – Edna Faye Teague Cook, 62, died Tuesday, December 20, 2011, at The University Medical Center in Jackson.

Services will be held Friday at 11 a.m at Wells Funeral Home. Rev. Rayford Ables will officiate. Burial will be in Forrest Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until service time at the funeral home. Wells Funeral Home has charge.

Cook, born in Charleston, on May 23, 1949, to Iris Farris and William Teague Sr., was a homemaker and a member of Cypress Corner Baptist Church in Como.

Survivors include: her husband, Bobby G. Cook of Batesville; two daughters, Rhonda Cook of Pope and Donna Jean Cook Aven of Batesville; one sister, Linda Singhause of Lexington, S.C.; one brother, Ted Teague of Saucier; and two grandchildren.

CRENSHAW – Phyllis Ann Porter, 60, died Tuesday, December 13, 2011, at her residence.

Memorial services were held Monday at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Pate-Jones Funeral Home had charge.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Josephine Holliday Pierce and her biological parents, Charles Clifford Porter Jr. and Mozella Mayfield Porter.

Survivors include: four daughters, Dallas Ann King of Como, Holly Ella Ward of Senatobia, Leslie Marie Melton of Crenshaw and Allison Darleen Cerveny of Oxford; one son, Dennis Eugene Lambert of Defuniak Springs, Fla.; her father, Walter Hugh Pierce Jr. of Nauvoo, Ill.; brothers, Sammy Pierce of Nauvoo, Clifford Porter of Mesa, Ariz., Neal Porter of Nauvoo,  and Jay Pierce of Nauvoo; 12 grandchildren and and three great-grandchildren.

The family requests that any memorials be made to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.

COMO – Lucille Smith Thompson, 107, died December 14, 2011 at the home of her grandniece, Ernestine Bridgeforth of Como.

Mrs. Thompson was born July 6, 1904 in Marianna, Ark., to the Rev. William R. and Mary Sullivan Smith.

She received a B.S. degree from Rust College and a master’s degree from Tuskegee Institute.

She married Henry S. Thompson with whom she made her home in Marks for 62 years.

She worked in schools in Quitman County until her retirement in 1974. She had served as the county’s Jeanes Supervisor and later as principal at West Side Junior High School.

Mrs. Thompson served with the Quitman County Democratic Executive Committee, the Quitman County Hospital Auxiliary, the Heroines of Jericho, and the Marks Beautification Committee. She was a member of Stevenson CME Church.

Other survivors include her grandniece Olivet Montgomery of Memphis and her nephew Eddie Smith Jr. of Cordova, Tenn.

 SENATOBIA – Mary Katherine White, 86, died December 19, 2011. Services were held December 21 at Pate-Jones Funeral Home in Senatobia. Burial followed in Fredonia Cemetery near Como.

Mrs. White was born January 27, 1925. She was an election commissioner in Tate County for 26 years and had served as a discussion leader for Explorer’s Bible Study for more than 10 years.

She is survived by her husband, Julian Paul White, and three sons, Jerry White, Lynn White and Kenny White, all of Senatobia.