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Patsey Manley Posted: June 28, 2025 COLUMBUS — Patsey Manley, 89, died June 27, 2025, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Lowndes ...
WEST POINT — Patsy “Pat” Pettit, 84, died June 24, 2025, at her residence. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, at Calvert Funeral ...
COLUMBUS — Randle McKinstry, 53, died June 12, 2025, in Columbus. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at United Christian Baptist Church, with the Rev. David Williams officiating ...
COLUMBUS — Curtis “Bruh” Richardson, 69, died June 19, 2025, at her residence. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at Providence M.B. Church, ...
STARKVILLE — Dr. James Byron Speed, 64, died June 13, 2025. A memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Curtis Chapel Cemetery ...
COLUMBUS — Rudy Cleon Lamaze Ervin, 54, died June 18, 2025, at his residence. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Friday, at Charity Full ...
WEST POINT — Ann Bryan McClellan, 62, died June 20, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral services were at 11 a.m. Monday ...
NOXUBEE COUNTY — Lisa L. Franklin, 54, died June 18, 2025, at Noxubee General Hospital. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, at Redeemed ...
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WEST POINT — Adolph Dyson, 71, died June 17, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, at Payne Chapel M.B. Church, with Tommy Lee Cox ...
Every year, roughly 230 of the state’s most gifted students flock to Columbus, prepared to take on the challenge of succeeding at Mississippi’s most academically rigorous high school.
Li-ya Wilson, left, and Darien Hardy control their robots Iris and Lloyd as teacher assistant Kenna Henkel plays the characters’ pre-recorded lines from her laptop. A sound-system malfunction ...