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Obituary Listing
New Albany, MS Obituaries
Local Obituaries for New Albany, MS, Union County, & Surrounding Areas
Howard Lee Harris
Oct 3, 2022
Howard Lee Harris, 86, died Monday, October 3, 2022, at Baptist Memorial Hospital, Union County, in New Albany. He was born December 3, 1935, the son of Alvis and Rebecca Harris. Mr. Harris was a pulp wood cutter most of his life. He was a member of Bethlehem Church, Potts Camp. His hobbies included fishing and playing his guitar. Survivors...
Billy Frank Harville
Sep 9, 2022
Billy Frank Harville, 68, died on Friday, September 9, 2022, at his residence. He was born August 13, 1954, in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of the late Frank Harville and Vessie Herring. Billy was a paint contractor and was a member of First Pentecostal Church of New Albany. His enjoyment was listening the Beatles music and watching classic comedy movies....
Betty Ann Prather
Sep 1, 2022
Betty Ann Prather, 68, died Thursday, September 1, 2022, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford. Betty was born in Union County on October 10, 1953, the daughter of Ernest and Irene Page Carroll. She was a housewife and of the Pentecostal faith. Her hobbies included flower gardening and fishing. Survivors include her husband, Harvey Prather; one son, Billy Hale, and...
Janie Beatrice Mooneyhan
Aug 28, 2022
Janie Stokes Mooneyhan, 92, of Blue Springs passed away at her home on Sunday, August 28, 2022, after an extended illness. She was born to the late Ernest Gayle and Ida Mae Stokes on April 19, 1930. She was married to the late Stanley Mooneyhan for sixty-three years. Survivors include, two sons, Michael and Rodney Mooneyhan of Blue Springs, three...
James Kenneth Smithey
Aug 22, 2022
James Kenneth Smithey, 70, died Monday at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. He was born February 13, 1952, in New Albany, the son of Boyce and Rebecca Smith Smithey. James was self employed as a vinyl siding dealer and installation. He was a Baptist, enjoyed playing guitar, doing carpentry work, spending time with his grandchildren, and loved giving his...
James Keith Prather
Jul 30, 2022
Funeral Services for Mr. James Keith Prather, 71, of Ecru, MS who passed away on July 30th, 2022 at his residence. Funeral Services will be at 11 A.M. Thursday August 4th, 2022 at Glenfield Funeral Home Chapel in New Albany, MS. Visitation will be from 9:30 A.M.-11:00 A.M. Interment will be at 2:30 P.M. at Forest Memorial Park in Batesville,...
Richard Randle Littlejohn
Jul 29, 2022
Richard Randle Littlejohn, 86, died Friday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County in New Albany. Mr. Littlejohn was born March 4, 1936, in Union County, the son of Luther Clark Littlejohn and Nannie Louise Reid Littlejohn. He was a veteran of the U. S. Army; a member of Mt. Gilead Baptist Church, and was retired from many years of employment at...
Judy Ann Taylor
Jul 28, 2022
Judy Ann Cook Taylor, fondly known as Nanny, age 82, passed away peacefully on Thursday, July 28, 2022, at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo, MS. She was born on June 15, 1940, to the late J. P. and Avie Lee Stacks Cook in Hickory Flat, Ms. She was a member of Flat Rock Baptist church, where she regularly attended until...
Wallace Russell Gillen
Jul 23, 2022
Wallace Russell Gillen, age 89, went to be with his Lord and Savior, Saturday, July 23, 2022. Russell was born June 19th, 1933, to Grover Lavern Gillen and Annie Jeanette Russell. Russell joined the Navy when he was 15 years old. He served his country for 23 years, and served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He had...
Lee "Buddy" Edward Hicks
Jul 10, 2022
Lee Edward Hicks, 75, known to his family and friends as Buddy or Buddy Lee, died at his home in New Albany, surrounded by loved ones on Sunday, July 10, 2022. Lee was born in Joliet, Illinois, on December 12, 1946, the son of Charlie and Mary Hicks. He moved to New Albany from Joliet, Illinois, in 1994, and was...
Mamie Ruth Russell
Jul 6, 2022
Mrs. Mamie Ruth Russell, 90, died Wednesday, July 6, 2022, at Church Street Manor in Ecru where she resided for the last eight years. She was born in New Albany on September 14, 1931, the daughter of Hugh Thomas Allred and Dessie Lee Sanford Allred. Mrs. Russell, the widow of Graham Russell, had operated a restaurant in Columbus, Mississippi, and...
Patricia "Pat" Joan Lawrence
Jun 24, 2022
Patricia Joan Lawrence, 78, was born March 28, 1944, in Union County, Mississippi, the daughter of Perry and Ruth Myrick Canerdy. She passed away on Friday, June 24, 2022, at her home surrounded by her loved ones and friends. Pat was a homemaker and had formerly worked for the New Albany Gazette. She is survived by her daughter, Montey Jolly...
Kathryn Ann Hale
Apr 23, 2022
Kathryn Ann Hale, 69, died Saturday, April 23, 2022, at Baptist Memorial Hospital, North, in Oxford, Mississippi. She was born in Shand's Hospital in New Albany on August 12, 1952, the daughter of Walter Elmer and Mollie Elizabeth Piedlow. Kathryn was a Baptist and had worked many years as a factory employee and later as a truck driver. She enjoyed...
Dorothy Sue Ellis
Apr 21, 2022
Dorothy Sue Ellis, 95, died Thursday, April 21, 2022, at Church Street Personal Care Home after residing there the last six and one-half years. She was born in Cherry, Tennessee, on June 9, 1926, to Wesley Ray and Lillie Hopper Ray. She was one of nine children, five sisters and three brothers. She moved to Memphis, Tennessee, at age seventeen...
Sara Carlyn Benefield
Apr 9, 2022
Carlyn Benefield, 77, died Saturday, April 9, 2022, after a short illness, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Carlyn was born September 9, 1944, in New Albany, Mississippi, the daughter of Roscoe and Ruth Jones Little. She was a member of the Church of God in Ripley and had spent her working career as a factory employee. She was...
Auzie L McNeely
Feb 22, 2022
Auzie L. McNeely, 77, died Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo, Mississippi. He was born in Arkansas to Auzie and Allene McNeely. He graduated from Myrtle High School in 1965. On December 25, 1965, he married Betty Jennings. He worked for many years at Futorian Furniture Factory and retired from Masterbilt Products. He was a member...
Jimmy Loyd Bennett
Feb 13, 2022
Jimmy Loyd Bennett, 83, passed away Sunday, February 13, 2022 at Magnolia Place of New Albany. He was born in Grenada County, Mississippi, on January 6, 1939, the son of Frank Leslie and Mary Lena Costilow Bennett. Mr. Bennett was a sheet rock hanger during his working career in the Memphis area. He moved to the New Albany area approximately...
Robert Norwood Burns, II
Feb 9, 2022
Robert (Bobby) passed away Wednesday Feb 9, at age 75, after a long illness. He was born in Memphis, TN at St. Joseph Hospital. Graduated in 1963 from CBC high school original midtown campus. Graduated from Memphis State University in 1966. Joined the Air Force where he served in Pakistan, Korea, Vietnam and Japan. After discharge, he stayed in Japan...
Douglas Wayne Decker
Jan 30, 2022
Douglas Wayne Decker, 76, died Sunday, January 30, 2022, at Baptist Memorial Hospital, Union County, in New Albany. Mr. Decker was born in Benton County, on September 7, 1945, the son of Arthur and Vennie Decker. He was a member of Bethesda Baptist Church and had been a factory employee. His hobbies were gardening and playing the guitar. Survivors include...
Kenneth Wayne Page
Jan 23, 2022
Kenneth Wayne Page, 62, died Sunday, January 23, 2022, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County in New Albany. Kenneth was the son of Alonzo Washington and Mae Ardellar Fish Page, born February 8, 1959, in New Albany. He was a member of Victory Life Center, and a retired Waste Water Maintenance Technician for the City of New Albany. Kenneth was a...
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