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2B The Clarion-Ledger Wednesday, February 26, 1997 DEATHS Hugh B. Bryant, retired businessman secretary of the Mississippi Society of Washington from 1959 to 1961. She joined the staff of Sen. Eastland in 1953, remaining on staff as a secretary and receptionist until retirement in 1975. She was the widow of Leonidas W.

Alston. Survivors include: son, L.W. "Watly" Alston Jr. of Pass Christian; and six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Lela Jessie Arnold homemaker CALHOUN CITY Lela Jessie Arnold, 94, a homemaker, died Tuesday of heart failure at her home.

Services are 1p.m. today at Pryor Funeral Home with burial in Bruce Cemetery. Mrs. Arnold was a Webster County native. She had been a co-owner of Arnold's Cleaners.

At the time of her retirement, she was an employee of Blount's Cleaners. She was the widow of Russell Arnold. Survivors include: daughters, Helon M. Ray of Madison and Peggy Matthews of Starkville; and six grandchildren, nine greatgrandchildren and five pi and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Missouri. Other survivors include: daughters, Heather Bryant McKeever and Heidi Bryant McKeever; stepson, Bobby Towery of Tae-gue, Korea; stepdaughter, Julie Kaye Towery Fanton of Los Angeles; mother, Elizabeth Kimmons Bryant of Oxford; sister, Patsy Bryant McGuirk of Lancaster, and three grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to the Leukemia Society of America, 1855 Lakeland Suite F-10, Jackson MS 39216; Public Radio of Mississippi, 3825 Ridgewood Road, Jackson MS 392 1 1 or Hopewell Cemetery, in care of Ruby Gean, Route 5, Box 280, Oxford MS 38655. Lucy M. Alston retired congressional staffer PASS CHRISTIAN Lucy M. Alston, 92, a retired congressional staffer for Sen. James O.

Eastland, died Monday of cardiac arrest at Memorial Hospital in Gulfport. Services are 10 a.m. Thursday at Rie-mann Funeral Home in Gulfport with burial at 2 p.m. in Roseland Park Cemetery in Hatties-burg. Visitation is 7-9 p.m.

today at the funeral home. Mrs. Alston was a O'Lo native, who had also lived in Hattiesburg, Jackson and Washington, D.C. During the years of World War II, she was an advisory council member of the USOYWCA unit in Hattiesburg and served as executive secretary of civilian defense for Forrest County and Hattiesburg. She was an active public speaker for War Bonds.

She was a member of Main Street Methodist Church in Hattiesburg and Capitol Street Methodist Church before joining Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church in Washington, D.C. She was a member of the Forrest County American Red Cross Board of Directors, the Community Council, the City Recreation Council and was twice chairman of the Mothers' March on Polio. She initiated the first Mothers' March in the state and was state adviser of the Women's Activities National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Mrs. Alston was president of the Mississippi Congress of Parents and Teachers from 1948 to 1952 and wrote a history of the group, titled Golden Jubilee History 1909-1959.

She was also a member of the Board of Managers, National Congress of Parents and Teachers and was secretary of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. She was a former member of the Literary Club in Hattiesburg and was state honorary member of Delta Kappa Gamma. She was ABERDEEN Sarah Elizabeth Sheppard McCollum, 90, respiratory arrest; 1 1 a.m. Thursday, the Tisdale-Lann Memorial Funeral Home. BROOKHAVEN J.Q.

Boyte. 77, retired security guard, heart failure; 1 1 a.m. today, Harrigill Funeral Home, Brookhaven. CRYSTAL SPRINGS Sarah Myrtle Brown, 85, homemaker, heart failure; 2 p.m. Saturday, Stringer Funeral Home.

FOREST The Rev. Travis K. Polk, 57, minister, cancer; 2 p.m. today, Clifton Baptist Church, Ott Lee Funeral Home. GRENADA Thomas Allen Ligon 85, farmer, heart failure; 2 p.m.

Thursday, First Baptist Church of Grenada, Garner-Harper Funeral Home, Grenada. HATTIESBURG Winfred B. Hamilton, 70, retired owner of Union 76 gas station, heart failure; 10 a.m. Thursday, Providence Baptist Church, Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home. HAZLEHURST Andrew Wilson Scurlock, 78, auto mechanic, cancer; 2 p.m.

Thursday, Stringer Funeral Home. HOLLANDALE Alma Rose Evans, 72, homemaker, heart failure; 2 p.m. Friday, Mortimer Funeral Home. HOULKA Mary Vance Joyner, 86, retired teacher, heart failure; 2 p.m. Thursday, Houlka Funeral Home.

KOSCIUSKO Jr. Kemp, 69, retired construction worker, heart attack; 2 p.m. today, Jordan Funeral Home. KOSCIUSKO Fredrick "Fed" C. Black, 73, rideaway foreman for H.C.

Price Company, Lou Gehrig's disease; 10 a.m. Thursday, Jordan Funeral Home. LAUREL Margaret D. Savell, 60, bookkeeper for Roy Rowzee Accounting, respiratory failure; Tuesday Calhoun Baptist Church; Memory Chapel Funeral Home. LEXINGTON Era Dell Thomas Floyd, 59, homemaker, stroke; 2 p.m.

today, Pinecrest Cemetery, Tchula, Southern Funeral Home. LOUISVILLE Aaron Davis Rigdon, 70, planer at Shuqualak Saw Mill, cancer; 2 p.m. today, Soul Harbour Pentecostal Church, Nowell Funeral Home. MACON Carrie Thompson, 87, homemaker, heart failure; 1 1 a.m. today, Cockrell Funeral Home.

MOUNT OLIVE Beulah Herrington, 94, homemaker, cancer; 2 p.m. today, Siloam Baptist Church, Colonial Chapel Funeral Home. MENDENHALL Angel Marie Sloan, 1 1 months, congestive heart failure; 2 p.m. today, Colonial Chapel Funeral Home. NATCHEZ Edwin L.

Smith, 74, retired assistant manager at Piggly Wiggly, cancer; 1 1 a.m. today, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Laird Funeral Home. PELAHATCHIE Hezza Turnage Purser, 74, retired seamstress, complications from spider bites; 11 a.m. today, Ott Lee Funeral Home, Morton. SILVER CREEK Wallace Deberry Herrington, 65, retired truck driver, heart failure; 2 p.m.

Thursday, Saulters-Moore Funeral Home. SILVER CREEK Hilda Sills King, 77, homemaker, heart failure; Tuesday, Shalom Baptist Church, Saulters-Moore Funeral Home. SUMMIT Joseph Warren Sellers, 76, retired trucking contractor, pneumonia; 1 1 a.m. today, Lakewood Funeral Home. UNION Donna Tolbert Croswell, 88, retired seamstress, heart disease; 10:30 a.m.

Thursday, Pine Grove Baptist Church, McClain-Hays Funeral Service. UNION CHURCH Quanisa Resha Wilson, 3, burns in a house fire; 1 1 a.m. today, Hickory Block United Methodist Church. VICKSBURG Ann Bourdeaux Andrews, 83, homemaker, cardiac failure; 2 p.m. today, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Fisher-Riles Funeral Home.

VICKSBURG The Rev. J. Harold Jones, 83, minister, died of heart failure Tuesday at Vicksburg Medical Center. Survivors include: stepsons, James Broadwell of Alexandria, and Kenneth Broadwell of New Orleans; stepdaughter, Bevedy Jane Flynn of Alexandria; and sisters, Myrtis Smith of Canton, Eugenia Wright of Madden and Nell McClellan of Ridgeland. Basil G.

Byrne production supervisor FLORENCE Basil G. Byrne, 65, a production supervisor, died of a heart attack Monday at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center. Services are 10 a.m. Thursday at Balwin-Lee Funeral Home in Pearl with burial in Briar Hill Cemetery. Visitation is 3-9 p.m.

today at the funeral home. Mr. Byrne was a Monticello native and moved to Florence 21 years ago from Pearl. He lived in Pearl for 16 years. He was a World War II U.S.

Army veteran who served in the Korean conflict. He was a member of Briar Hill Baptist Church. He retired from Borden Milk Co. He enjoyed gardening. Survivors include: wife, Olean; son, Gregory L.

Byrne of Florence; daughters, Daphne Pigott of Collinsville and Libby Panter of Frankfurt, Germany; brothers, Robert Byrne of Lawrence and Jimmy Byrne of Waynesboro; sister, Sarah Algood of Brookhaven; and five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Guy Alton Dunigan retired linen company worker Guy Alton Dunigan, 86, of Keel Street, a retired employee of Independent Linen Company, died Monday of cancer at Attensas Nursing Home in Newelleton, La. Services are 9:30 a.m. Thursday at Wright Ferguson Funeral Home with burial at 1 p.m. Thursday at Mars Hill Baptist Church Cemetery in Edinburg.

Visitation is 4-8 p.m. today. Mr. Dunigan was a Butler, native who spent his childhood in Edinburg. He lived in Jackson most of his adult life.

He was employed by Continental Trailways until 1947. He was later employed by Independent Linen Company until retirement in 1975. Survivors include: wife, Josie; daughter, Rebecca D. Turner of Shreveport, son, Bill Dunigan of Pead; stepson, Harold Pullen of Armandale, and four grandchildren, four stepgrandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Memorials may be made to Gideons International, 2900 Lebanon Nashville TN 37214, or to Flowood Baptist Church Building Fund.

Billy Floyd Morris maintenance mechanic PEARL Billy Floyd Morris, 55, a maintenance mechanic, died of cancer Monday at his home. Services are 2 p.m. today at Ott Lee Funeral Home in Brandon with burial in Floral Hills Memory Gardens in Pearl. Mr. Morris was a California native, but TIm ClarloivLwIgar OXFORD Hugh Buford Bryant, 56, retired co-owner ol Professional Landscape Management Systems, died Monday of complications from multiple myeloma, a type of cancer, at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

Services are 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Peter's Episcopal Church with burial in Hopewell Cemetery. Visitation is p.m. today at the church.

Waller Funeral Home is handling arrangements. Mr. Bryant was well known as a conservationist and outdoorsman who enjoyed hiking, backpacking and birdwatching. "He was my idea of a Renaissance man," said friend Andy Howorth, an Oxford attorney. "I was amazed at how well-read he was.

He had so much appreciation and love for the outdoors, but he also was knowledgeable about so many subjects, ranging from hunting and trapping to politics, social issues and art." Oxford businessman Bob Vasilyev was also a friend. "I just thought he was great," he said. "He was hard-working, friendly and honest. Just about any of the good character traits you could pick out in a human being, he had." Mr. Bryant and his wife, Kaye Bryant, first met as business associates.

Later, they co-owned the landscape business. After a longtime professional relationship, they married on Feb. 27, 1995. "I kidded them all the time," Vasilyev said. "They did it backwards.

Usually you get married, then go into business. They went into business, then got married." Mr. Bryant also operated Punkin water systems as well as water systems for East Oxford, Hopewell and Taylor. He also had owned Turf Grass Farms in Oxford. A tree farmer, he was active in the Lafayette County Forestry Association.

He served on the board of directors for both the Punkin Water Association and the Hopewell Cemetery. He served as a field trial judge for beagles and was active in the Pontotoc Beagle Club. "He passionately loved his family, friends and country and spent his time helping them," said sister Marie Bryant Sartor of Marks. Mr. Bryant was a Pecos, Texas, native but lived in Oxford most of his life.

He retired as a captain in the Air Force, having served as a programmer in the missile program. He earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Mississip- (Ridgeland) MRS. BOBBIE E. ALLEN Arrangement Incomplete mum STRINGER FUNERAL HOME CRYSTAL SPRINGS 892-1521 SARAH MYRTLE BROWN 2PM Sat. -Chapel Visit: Thurs.

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All major credit cards accepted. son; sons, Bob Ramsay of Hattiesburg and Brad Ramsay of Fairfax, sister, Erma Robinson of Beaufort, S.C; brother, B.L. Ramsay of Lodge, S.C; and four grandchildren. Memorials may be made to Calvary Baptist Church, P.O. Box 1008, Tupelo MS 38802.

Grace B. Brady retired saleslady Grace B. Brady, 88, a retired saleswoman, of Manhattan Road, died of Alzheimer's disease Tuesday at Manhattan Health Care Center. Services are 1 p.m. Thursday at Wright Ferguson-Clinton with burial in Lakewood Memorial Park.

Visitation is 5-7 p.m. today and noon Thursday at the funeral home. Mrs. Brady was a Lincoln County native, but lived in Jackson for many years. She was a graduate of Bogue Chitto High School.

Mrs. Brady had worked at Parisian Shop for about 25 years. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church and the Order of East-em Star. Mrs. Brady was the widow of Neil Brady.

Survivors include a sister, Daisy Swanson of Sandwich, III. Memorials may be made to Pleasant Hills Bpatist Church, Bogue Chitto or to Calvary Baptist Church in Jackson. Frances S. Broadwell retired dietitian CARTHAGE Frances S. Broadwell, 97 a retired dietitian, died Sunday of heart failure at Leake County Extended Care.

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BLACHE ESTELLE ROBERSON 11 AM Thursday High St. Visit: 4-8 PM Wednesday MRS. GRACE B. BRADY 1 PM Thursday Clinton Chapel Visit 5-7 PM Wednesday in Clinton MISS HELEN VIRGINIA THOMPSON 2 PM Thursday High St. Visit: 12:30 PM Thursday MR.

ROBERT HERMAN "OOGIE" CARSON 10:30 AM Saturday St. Richards Catholic Church Visit: 5-8 PM Thursday High St. MR. WILLIAM JUNIOR NEESE 12:30 PM High St. Visit: 3-8 PM Wednesday MR, BILLY JOE PHILLIPS 10 AM Thursday St.

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Ch. Int. Pending MRS. HESTER BOLDEN Incomplete Locally Owned and Operated by: Audrey B. Wiley, Anthony Davis and Freddie Davia "Professional Service You Can Depend On" 601-922-3666 lived in Pearl for the past 20 years.

He was a member of Selma Baptist Church in Selma, Calif. Survivors include: wife, Carolyn; sons, Don Morris of Wessington, S.D. and Alva Morris of Peari; daughter, Patricia "P.J." Woldt of Tulare, S.D.; mother, Mae Morris of San Jose, brother, Edward Morris of Hawaii; sister, Patricia Morris of Dallas, Texas; stepsons, Ray Wilkett and Bruce Norton, both of Peari and Stanley Norton of Norfolk, stepdaughters, Lela Jane Bowen and Romona Norton, both of Peart; and 18 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. William Junior Neese truck driver PEARL William Junior Neese, 55, a truck driver for Environmental Waste, died Tuesday of cancer at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Services are 12:30 p.m.

Thursday at Wright Ferguson Funeral Home with burial in Morton Memorial Gardens. Visitation is 3-8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Mr. Neese was a Neshoba County native who had lived in Peari the past 1 1 years.

He was a Baptist. Survivors include: wife, Lizzie; daughters, Janice K. Hamilton and Janie Carol Kamal, both of Peari; son, William Glenn Neese of Pearl; sisters, Erma Stephens and Ethel Courtney, both of Forest, Mildred Clark of Philadelphia and Bertha Truelove of Madison; brother, James Alton Neese of Peari; and four grandchildren. Bob N. Ramsay retired Baptist minister TUPELO Bob N.

Ramsay, 83, a retired Baptist minister, died Feb. 8 of Parkinson's disease at Cedars Health Center. Services were Feb. 10 at Calvary Baptist Church with burial Feb. 1 1 at Crestlawn Memorial Cemetery in Cookeville, Tenn.

Dr. Ramsay was a Walterboro, S.C., native and an alumnus of Furman University in Greenville, S.C. He received his master's degree in theology from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, and his doctorate in theology from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. During his 40 years of ministry, he pastured churches in Tennessee, Texas and Mississippi and traveled on mission trips to Russia, South Africa, Japan, Korea, India, the Philippines, Haly and England. He served on a number of boards of directors and was active in civic groups.

While serving as pastor of First Baptist Church in Brookhaven during the 1960s, he was chairman of the community's bi-racial committee and was recognized for his efforts to promote healing during a time of racial conflict. He was a member of the board of trustees of Mississippi College and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, S.C. He retired in 1978 from Calvary Baptist Church in Tupelo, where he remained an active member. He attended the University of Mississippi for course work in counseling. For several years, he provided counseling services and was an interim pastor in the northeast Mississippi area.

Survivors include: wife, Geri; daughters, Sarah Ramsay of Dallas, Missy Bamett of Winter Park, and Jan Ramsay oj Jack Louise Robinson homemaker PEARL Louise Robinson, 66, a home-maker, died Tuesday of heart failure at Rankin Medical Center. Services are 1 1 a.m. today at Wright Ferguson Funeral Home with burial in Brandon Memorial Gardens. Visitation is after 9:30 a.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Robinson was a Moorhead native who had lived in Peart the past eight years. She had lived in Jackson for 20 years. She was a Pentecostal. Survivors include: daughter, Patricia Collins of Memphis; sons, Carl Gober of Pearl and Marvin Gober of Chattsworth, sister, Eariine Calahan of Pearl; and six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Dorothy Shelton homemaker Dorothy Shelton, 88, of Northside Drive, a homemaker, died Monday of a stroke at Mississippi Baptist Medical Center. Services are 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Broadmeadow United Methodist Church with burial in Lakewood Memorial Park. Visitation is 4-8 p.m. today at Wright Ferguson Funeral Home.

Mrs. Shelton was a Jackson, native who had been a longtime Jackson, resident. She had been a member of Broadmeadow United Methodist Church for 45 years and was a member of WSCS there. She was the widow of Leslie Shelton. Survivors include: daughter, Kay Shelton of Jackson; son, Leslie Shelton Jr.

of Columbia, S.C.; brother, Paul Wilson Jr. of Jackson; and three grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren. Memorials may be made to Broadmeadow United Methodist Church. Hellen Virginia Thompson artist Hellen Virginia Thompson, 88, of Houston Avenue, an artist, died of heart failure Monday at St. DominicJackson Memorial Hospital.

Services are 2 p.m. Thursday at Wright Ferguson Funeral Home in Jackson with burial in Canton Cemetery. Visitation is 12:30 p.m. Thursday. Miss Thompson, a McComb native, lived in Jackson for more than 60 years.

She graduated from Belhaven College and attended the Art Institute of Chicago. She was an artist and also taught art. She was a retired auditor with the Mississippi Rating Bureau. Miss Thompson was a member of St. Columb's Episcopal Church and a former member of Riverside Independent Methodist Church.

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