All Obituaries

Services for Mrs. Harriet “Tootsie” Burroughs Clark will be held Friday, August 16, at 12 noon at Stephens Funeral Home in Union. Interment will follow at Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Newton.  Brother Thomas Fortenberry will be officiating. Visitation will be from 10 - 12. Stephens Funeral Home of Union is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Clark, 85, died Wednesday August 14 at Hilltop Manor.  She loved reading her Bible, working puzzle books and playing...

A Memorial service for Mickey Ray Parker will be Monday at 11 am at Stephens Funeral Home. Bro. Tommy Miller will be officiating. Mr. Parker 58, of Zero community passed away Sunday at University Medical Center in Jackson. He is survived by his brothers Doyle Parker, David Parker, Curtis Parker and wife Sherry; sisters Marsha Keeton and Norma Keeton along with numerous nieces and nephews. Mr. Parker was preceded in death by his parents Archie Robert Parker and Mildred Hardin Parker. He...

A private memorial service for Louis Marshall Hoidahl will be held at a later date. Mr. Hoidahl, 82, died Sunday, August 4 at Diversicare Nursing Home. Stephens Funeral Home is handling his arrangements. Mr. Hoidahl was retired from Cookbook Bakery in Chicago, Illinois where he was a truck driver. After moving to Mississippi, he started his own carpet cleaning business, Hoidahl’s Carpet Cleaning, and later a car dealership in Collinsville, L & M Auto Sales. He is survived by his wife...

A memorial service for Mary Helen Talbert will be held Wednesday, August 14, 2019, at 1:00 pm at Stephens Funeral Home. Mrs. Talbert, 76, died Thursday, August 1 at Anderson’s Hospital. She is survived by her grandson Josh Dean, a step-daughter Laura Orfino, and a great-granddaughter Ari Osborne. Stephens Funeral Home has been entrusted with her care. Mary was a retired nurse at East Mississippi State Hospital. She loved to cook, especially red beans and rice. Desserts were...

A memorial service for Mr. Klein Whitfield Caldwell III will be held on Thursday at 12 noon at Stephens Funeral Home. Mr. Caldwell, 41, of Meridian, passed away Saturday.  He will be remembered by family and friends as a handy man who could work on anything and was a “jack of all trades.” He was a very good- hearted person who would give you the shirt off his back or his last bite of food if you were hungry. He enjoyed fishing and hunting in his spare time. He is survived...

Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Ruth Harbour will be held Friday at 11 am in the chapel of Stephens Funeral Home of DeKalb. Bro. James Ruffin and Bro. Lonnie Mazingo will be officiating. Burial will follow in Pinecrest Cemetery. Mrs. Harbour, 81, of DeKalb, passed away at her residence on Tuesday. She was a member of Gum Log Baptist Church. Mrs. Harbour loved serving others and enjoyed cooking for her friends and family and had a love for music. She is survived by her husband Lamar...

A Memorial service for Jimmie Lane Blankenship will be held Monday, July 29, 2019 at 1:00pm at the Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery. The cemetery is located at 258 Honors Circle, Newton, MS. Bro. Tommy Miller will be officiating. Mr. Blankenship, 88, passed away July 22, 2019 at his home in Scooba, MS. Jim was retired from the United States Navy as well as the long-time owner of his saw shop in Scooba.

A memorial service for Stephen Dewayne Locklear will be held Saturday at 10 am at Stephens Funeral Home. Rev. James Gordon will be officiating. Mr. Locklear, 60, of Meridian, passed away at his residence on Sunday. He retired from Waters International where he served over 20 years as a diesel mechanic. Mr. Locklear was very passionate about his work and enjoyed his job. He also enjoyed deer hunting during his spare time. He was a member of Fellowship Baptist Church and a volunteer...

Funeral services for Mrs. Elsie Duane Quattlebaum Hagan will be held Thursday at 2pm at Bluff Spring Church of God in Union. Rev. Jeff Hancock will be officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Zion Congregational Methodist Church cemetery. Stephens Funeral Home of Union is entrusted with the arrangements. Mrs. Hagan, 81, of Union, passed away at Hilltop Manor Nursing Center on Tuesday. She was retired after working many years at the shirt factory in Union.  Family and friends will remember...

Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Sue Pool Taylor will be held Sunday at 2pm in the chapel of Stephens Funeral Home. Bro. Tommy Miller will be officiating. Burial will follow in Duffee Baptist Church Cemetery. Stephens Funeral Home of Meridian is entrusted with the arrangements. Mrs. Taylor, 74, of Chunky, formerly of West Point, passed away Friday at Queen City Nursing Center. Through much of her life she was self employed as a hairdresser and later in the used car business with Mr....