OBITUARIES – 3/20/2014

Published 12:00 am Thursday, March 20, 2014

Danny “Pop” File, age 62,  passed away peacefully at his home in Pope, on Wednesday morning, March 19, 2014.

Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. Friday morning, 3/21/14 in Wells Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Clay Baker presiding. Interment will follow at Chapel Hill Cemetery in Pope. The File family will receive friends on Thursday evening from 5:00-8:00 p.m. at Wells Funeral Home.

“Pop” was born to Keith Dale & Willine Bolton File on October 1, 1951 in Panola County.  Mr. File was a member of the 1970 South Panola graduating class and in the fall of that year, he went on to Northwest Jr. College.  After a year at NW, he joined the U.S. Army National Guard, and after serving 22 years with the Guard, he retired as a Sergeant in 1994.  Pop refined his cooking skills while in the Guard, as he worked as a Chef for many years.  In 1971,  Mr. File went to work for The Mississippi State Highway Department in the Project Office in Batesville.  He worked in the field with survey crews for many of those years.  After he had walked many a mile with the ‘crew’,  he became a highly respected inspector with MDOT, focusing on working with the asphalt contractors all over the northern district of Mississippi.  In 2007, Mr. File retired from MDOT after serving 33 years.  Throughout those years, he was a fun-loving teacher and mentor to all he came in contact with; never asking anyone to perform a task, in which he didn’t aide them. 

Mr. File was of the Methodist faith.  In his younger years, he was a bass singer with a group called “Faith”. 

Survivors include: his wife of nearly 42 years, Martha “Sid” Brewer File of Pope; two daughters, Chesley File Watson (T.R.) of Oxford and Danielle File Moore (Bradley) of Batesville; one brother, Edward File (Sandra) of Atlanta, Ga.; sister-in-law, Eileen Nelson File of Pope and four grandchildren-Micah Higgins, Luke Higgins, Caitlin Moore and Drake Watson. 

He was preceded in death by his parents, Keith Dale & Willine Bolton File and one brother, Terry Don File.

The family requests that memorials be sent to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN  38105.