Obituaries 10-29-10
Published 12:00 am Friday, October 29, 2010
MIAMI, Fla.–William Harvey Johnson, 86, died Sunday, October 24, 2010, at Berkshire Manor in Miami, Fla.
Services will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Wells Funeral Home. Johnson will be buried with full military honors at Chapel Hill Cemetery in Pope. Visitation will be held Monday 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. at Wells Funeral Home.
Johnson, born Jan. 18, 1924, in Water Valley, to the late Harvey and Daisy Walker Johnson, went to high school at Pope School and served his country during WWII in the United States Army. He did his apprenticeship for the electrical worker’s union IBEW Local 349 in Miami and became a lineman. He traveled the country working at different job sites for different companies and ended his career in Miami as a supervisor for a local Miami company. He was a member of the Ft. Pierce Chapter VFW.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Shirley Ann “Shan” Seeling Johnson.
Survivors include: one daughter, Lynda Kay Bell of Miami, Fla.; one son, Joel William Johnson of Hobe Sound, Fla.; half brother, J.W. Lipe of Groveland, Fla.; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
BATESVILLE – Dorothy King, 92, of Batesville died Friday, October 29.
Funeral services will be held Monday, November 1, at the Batesville Presbyterian Church. Visitation will be held Monday 10 a.m. to noon.
Dickins Funeral Home has charge of arrangement.
A complete obituary will follow in Tuesday’s edition of The Panolian.
Kathryn Childress Nelson
BATESVILLE–Kathryn Childress Nelson, 94, died Wednesday, October 27, 2010, at Fairfield Assisted Living Home.
Services will be held today at 2 p.m. at Dickins Funeral Home. Visitation will be held from 1 p.m. until service time at the funeral home. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Cemetery in Pope. Rev. Brownie Tohill will officiate. Dickins Funeral Home has charge.
Nelson, born to the late John and Mable Childress, had a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from University of Mississippi and was retired from Pope School where she taught for 34 years. She was also a member of Pope Methodist Church where she was the pianist. She was founder of the Little Park in Pope at the site of the former old Methodist Church. She was a member of Pope Garden Club and Mrs. Nelson put a hybrid day Lily in the White House garden in Washington D.C.
She was preceded in death by her husband, H.L. “Cub” Nelson.
Survivors include: one daughter Kathryn Halford and husband Ken of Nashville; two step daughters, Tommy Gallagher and Eileen File, two grandchildren, three great grandchildren.
Memorials may be sent to The Little Park in Pope.
William D. Slay
CLINTON–William D. Slay, 76, died October 22 at St. Dominic Hospital. He was the husband of former Panola Countian Charlotte Brister Slay, to whom he had been married for 54 years.
Slay was born in Crystal Springs on June 7, 1934 to the late William Homer and Jeanette Miller Slay.
Funeral services were held at Jackson’s Oak Forest Baptist Church, where Slay had been a member, on October 25. Burial was in Lakewood Memorial Park.
Slay had been a salesman for Bailey OIl Company and had worked with the Jackson Police Department. At Oak Forest Baptist Church he had served as a deacon and Sunday School teacher.
Survivors, in addition to his wife, include his children, Charles Slay of Brandon and Cathy Lynn Kilpatrick of Clinton; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; one brother, Jimmy Slay of Mayfield, Ky.
Barbara Denise Wright
SENATOBIA–Barbara Denise Wright, 44, died Tuesday, October 19, 2010.
Services were held Saturday at Simon Chapel No. 2 in Como. Burial was in the church cemetery. Felix Cauthen Funeral Home had charge.
She was a member of Simon Chapel No. 2 in Como.
Survivors include: two sons, Antwaun Wright and Francisco Wright, both of Senatobia and her father, James Price of Senatobia.