Obituaries

Ailean Wilson, 86, of Crystal Springs, died Saturday, July 9, 2016. Visitation will be held Friday, July 15, from 1-6. Services will be held Saturday, July 16, at 11 a.m. with a short visitation beginning at 10 at New Pisgah M.B. Church in Crystal Springs. Interment will be in  the church cemetery.

Betty Louise Morgan, 77, died Saturday, July 9, 2016 at Hardy Wilson Memorial Hospital in Hazlehurst. Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 14, at Westside Baptist Church in Hazlehurst, at 11 A.M. with interment to follow in the Hazlehurst City Cemetery. Bro. Larry Hart and Bro. James Harris will be officiating the services. Brookhaven…

Dakota Lee Epps, 18, of Wesson, died Wednesday, June 29, 2016.  Visitation will be 5 p.m. until Saturday at Westside Baptist Church.  Services will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Westside Baptist Church with interment at Bethesda Cemetery.  Stringer Family Funeral Home in Hazlehurst is handling arrangements.   Dakota was born in Brookhaven.  He was a…

William Charles Lowenkamp, Sr., formerly of Hazlehurst, died Saturday, June 25, 2016, at Canon Hospice in Gulfport. Visitation will be held at Sardis Baptist Church, Hazlehurst,  Friday, July 1, from 12 – 2 p.m. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Mr. Lowenkamp was born in Staten Island, NY in 1916, celebrating his 100th birthday…

Services for Trudie Sullivan Matrick: Visitation: Tuesday, June 28, 5-8 p.m. at Stringer Funeral Home in Crystal Springs. Services will be held Wednesday, June 29, at 10 a.m. from Stringer Funeral  Home in Crystal Springs. Interment at Old Crystal Springs Cemetery on Utica Rd., Crystal Springs.

Callie Ray Pell Stokes departed her earthly body to join our Father in Heaven on June 23, 2016.  Visitation will be 9am-11am Monday at Sardis Baptist Church.  Funeral services will be 11am Monday at Sardis Baptist Church with burial at Sardis Cemetery.  Stringer Family Funeral Home in Hazlehurst is handling arrangements. Callie was a selfless…

Edward Ray Shows, 58, of Crystal Springs,  passed away June 22, 2016 at his residence.  Visitation will be 5pm-8pm Friday at Stringer Family Funeral Home in Crystal Springs.  Services will be 10am Saturday at Gatesville Baptist Church with burial at Gatesville Cemetery.   Mr. Shows loved his family and fishing.  He graduated top of his…

Julian Curtis, 92, of Hazlehurst, passed away Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at Hardy Wilson Hospital.  Visitation will be 5pm-8pm Thursday at Stringer Family Funeral Home in Hazlehurst.  Services will be 2pm Friday at Stringer Family Chapel with burial at Spring Hill Cemetery.  Stringer Family Funeral Home in Hazlehurst is handling arrangements.   Mr. Curtis was…

Katherine Davis (Mrs. Kathi) Hood, 73, of Utica, passed away Friday, June 17, 2016 at her home.  Visitation will be 5pm-8pm Thursday at Stringer Family Funeral Home in Hazlehurst.  Services will be 10am Friday at Pine Bluff Baptist Church with burial at Pine Bluff Cemetery.  Stringer Family Funeral Home in Hazlehurst is handling arrangements.  …

Donald Jackson, 75, of Crystal Springs, passed away June 17, 2016 at Hardy Wilson Memorial Hospital. Visitation will be 5pm-8pm Sunday at Stringer Family Funeral Home in Crystal Springs. Services will be 10am Monday at Pilgrim’s Rest Baptist Church with burial at Old Crystal Springs Cemetery. Stringer Family Funeral Home in Crystal Springs is handling…