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Mary Lee Breaux

Mary Lee Trahan Dupre Breaux, 77, of Crystal Springs, was born June 2, 1945, in Chauvin, La., and went home to be the Lord on Oct. 4, 2022. A funeral service was held Oct. 8 at Stringer Family Chapel. Burial will be at Holy Rosary Church Cemetery at a later date. She was preceded in…

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Janice Yvonne Tanner Butler

Janice Yvonne Tanner Butler, 71, passed away Sept. 21, 2022. A funeral service was held Sept. 26 at Greater Damascus Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A. in Hazlehurst, with interment in the church cemetery. Hazlehurst Funeral Home handled the arrangements. Survivors include her former spouse, Larry Butler; daughter, Catina Butler; son, Richard Thomas; four grandchildren; sister,…

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Clifton Carlock

Clifton Carlock, 95, of Crystal Springs, passed away Oct. 6, 2022. A graveside service was held Oct. 10 at Harmony Baptist Church Cemetery. Stringer Family Funeral Home in Crystal Springs handled the arrangements. Mr. Carlock was a Navy and Army veteran of WWII and the Korean Conflict. He was retired from the post office. He…

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Bennie F. Frizzell

Bennie F. Frizzell, 86, passed away Oct. 6, 2022, at Baptist Health, Lexington, Ky. Mr. Frizzell was born in Crystal Springs, the youngest of three children to Clarence and Mary Didlake Frizzell. He graduated from the Crystal Springs Consolidated School in 1954 and joined the Air Force a month later during the Korean Conflict. He…

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John Hamilton Long

Dr. John Hamilton Long, 85, died Oct. 7, 2022, in Jackson. Dr. Long was born March 2, 1937, in Hazlehurst. He attended Millsaps College and graduated from the University of Mississippi Medical School in 1962. He interned at Duval County Medical Center in Jacksonville, Fla. Following his internship, he entered the Navy and served one…

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Daniel Cecil Merritt

Daniel Cecil “Danny” Merritt, 58, of Georgetown, passed away Oct. 1, 2022, at Baptist North in Oxford. Danny was born June 19, 1964, in Prescott, Ariz. A funeral service was held Oct. 5 in the Wilson Funeral Home chapel. Graveside services followed at Carmel Baptist Church Cemetery in Monticello. Pastor Darrel Blankenship officiated, with Wilson…

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Virgia B. Porter

Virgia B. Porter, 92, passed away Sept. 23, 2022. A funeral service was held Oct. 1 at Antioch M.B. Church in Hazlehurst, with interment at Hawkins Cemetery in Barlow. Hazlehurst Funeral Home handled the arrangements. Survivors include stepdaughter, Jerlean Collins; three grandchildren; and sisters, Mary Alice Powell and Lee Helen Lynch.

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Kiara Shannon

Kiara Shannon, 29, passed away Sept. 25, 2022. A funeral service was held Oct. 1 at Antioch M.B. Church in Hazlehurst, with interment at Greater New Zion M.B. Church in Hazlehurst. Hazlehurst Funeral Home handled the arrangements. Survivors include her parents, Lisa A. Shannon and Rufus Lee Sr.; daughters, Keristen D. Shannon and Avaiah K.…

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Max Stringer

Maxwell Thomas Stringer, 22, of Crystal Springs, passed away early Oct. 2, 2022, in a fatal car accident. A funeral service was held Oct. 7 at Stringer Chapel, with burial at Old Crystal Springs Cemetery. Max was born on April 21, 2000, on Good Friday, in Jackson. He was named after both of his grandfathers,…

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Ken Thornton

A memorial service will be held for Ken Thornton on Oct. 16, 2022. at 588 School House Road in Pinola, with Bro. Earl Clark officiating. Riverwood Family is handling the arrangements. Ken, a resident of The Village of Beauregard in Copiah County, was preceded in death by his parents, Ebb “Bill” and Iona Sorey Thornton;…

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