All Obituaries

Graveside services for Mrs. Joan McNeill will be held Monday at 2pm at Mt. Nebo cemetery. Rev. Jack Giles will be officiating. Stephens Funeral Home is entrusted with the arrangements. Mrs. McNeill, 87, of Meridian, passed away Thursday at Diversacare Nursing Center in Meridian. She was a retired counselor at East MS State Hospital after serving 30 + years. Mrs. McNeill is survived by son Michael Robin Killen; grandchildren Cori Van Devender, Dustin Killen, Scott Killen, Deanna McCarver;...

Private graveside services for Wilton Eugene Parnell, 82, of Scooba, MS, will be Tuesday, November 24, 2020, at 10:00 am in Binnsville Cemetery in Scooba, MS. Brother Zac Cox will be officiating. Stephens Funeral Home is handling his arrangements. Mr. Parnell was retired from working maintenance at East Mississippi Community College where he worked for over 40 years. He loved reading and woodworking and was well known for his Christmas nativity scene. He is survived by his wife Barbara, of...

Graveside services for Mr. Roger Dale Joyner will be Monday at 10 am in Antioch Baptist Cemetery in Neshoba County. Rev. Larry Joyner will be officiating. Stephens Funeral Home is entrusted with the arrangements. Mr. Joyner,69, of Collinsville, passed away Thursday at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center. He retired from Lauderdale County as a truck driver and heavy equipment operator. His family will have fond memories of him loving to pick and agitate other family members who he had...

Mattie Sue Meacham was called to her eternal resting place on November 19, 2020. She entered this world on September 3, 1926, born to Elbert and Jessie Gunn. Nicknamed by a college classmate as “Pistol”, Mattie Sue Gunn was brought up in Lauderdale County where she graduated from Dixie Highway School. She graduated from East Mississippi Junior College and Mississippi State College for women, where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Education, in 1949. In the...

Graveside services for Marilyn Jeanette Murphy Roulston will be held Monday at 2:30 pm at Old Marion Cemetery. Ms. Roulston, 58, of Meridian, passed away Wednesday at Rush Foundation Hospital. She worked many years in the janitorial services in the medical industry. She was a member of Northside Church of the Nazarene and will always be remembered by her family as the “family clown”, who never met a stranger and loved everyone she met. Ms. Roulston loved her family, especially...

Mr. Winfrey “W.C.” Sikes, 104, of Meridian, passed away at his residence on Wednesday. He was a longtime manager for Dixie Express Co. and Roadway Express, from which he retired.  He was a Mason for over 75 years and a member of the Hamasa Shrine. Mr. Sikes was a member of Oak Hill Baptist Church. He is survived by his son Shot Sikes (Sara); grandchildren Clay Sikes (Gina), Kyle Sikes, Deryk Rieves (Jen), Hallie Rainwater (Chris) and Spencer Sikes (Lyndsie) along...

 Johnnie Mae Parnell, 81,  passed away Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at her residence in Meridian. Stephens Funeral Home has been entrusted with her care. Ms. Parnell enjoyed cooking and loved spending time visiting with her grandchildren and great grandchildren. She is survived by her children Danny Parnell (Brenda), Denise Knost (Michael), David Parnell (Naomi) and Richard Parnell; 4 grandchildren Joshua Knost, Melodye Wood, Ashley Allen and Jacob Knost; 6 great grandchildren Jace...

Graveside services for Janis Williamson Temple will be held on Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. at the Fellowship Baptist Church cemetery in Bailey with Pastor Caleb Hughes officiating. Mrs. Temple passed away on Monday, November 16, 2020, at Anderson’s Regional Medical Center at the age of 94. Her family was blessed to have been able to gather around her, and she is having a joyful reunion in heaven with those who preceded her. She is survived by her children, Terrell Temple...

  Graveside services for Mr. Harry Hoyt Russell will be held Tuesday at 10 am in Pinecrest Cemetery in DeKalb, MS. Eulogy will be brought by Mr. Ronald Hegwood with special music by Rev. Chris Gully. Stephens Funeral Home of DeKalb is entrusted with the arrangements. Mr. Russell 86, of DeKalb, passed away Saturday at Baptist Hospital in Carthage. He was a brick mason and general contractor, having built several prominent buildings in DeKalb and the surrounding area. He also designed...

Winnie “Ann” Dunn Fisher, 84, of Meridian, passed away on November 14th, 2020. Ann was born on January 12th, 1936, in Meridian, MS to Charles and Emma Dorothy (Schillings) Dunn. After moving to Charleston, SC, as a child during WWII, Ann returned to Meridian at the age of 12 and later graduated from Meridian High School. Ann then attended the University of Southern Mississippi where she earned her bachelor’s degree. Ann married her college sweetheart, Lamar Fisher, and...