Happy Birthday:
July 1: Jeffery Lee Gentry, Stacey Hollifield, Johnny Watkins, Yvette Moore, April Hawkins, Henry McWilliams, Helen McWilliams.
July 2: Gary Risher, Dusty Thompson, Frank Webb Gunn, Betty Hughes, Steven Mangum.
July 3: Robert Mahaffey, Buzz Harris, Byron Gaskin, Mark Frederick, Beth Frederick, Kelsi Walters, Shon Chesnut.
July 4: Chris Bethea, Beverly Gaddis Woods, Ken Gordon Jr., Bradley Wolverton, Linda Risher, Dan K. Hill, Jr., Toni Johnson Denton, Shelley Hatch, Jennifer Mitchell, Glenna Karnatz.
July 5: Malcolm Robinson, Norman Williamson, Tommy Buntin, Pope Godfrey, Brenda Wallace, Amy Crawford, Grant Gibbs, Amy Tadlock.
July 6: Elizabeth Ann Lovett, Wayne Massey, Frankie McGee, Buz Mowdy, Kay Goodwin Markwood, Billy F. Cooksey, Ginny Lee Jordan, Barbara Ginny Calhoun, James Bradley Morrison, Jennifer Hollingsworth, Carolyn Halford.
July 7: Ronnie Hallman, Leigh Ann Culpepper Tillman, Alicia Gunn, Mattie Futch, Hiram Richardson II, Sam Morris, Shawn Sparks.
Irene Martin was treated to lunch at Wiedman’s in Meridian for her birthday with her next door neighbor, Pat Hodges. Betty Jones made her annual birthday visit to Irene with hot out of the frying pan apple tarts!
Special congratulations to grandparents Bob and Carol Johnston Lindley of Hattiesburg, upon the birth of a seven pound, eight ounce, 19 and 3/4 inch granddaughter, Cecelia Fay Lindley. The new addition is the great granddaughter of the late former Scott County Times editor and publisher, Earle and Fay Johnston. Mom, Dad and baby are doing great!
What do you do when Father’s Day and a special birthday for your mom happen together during a pandemic? Well, Kelly and Kaye Smith Hodges’ daughter Kim didn’t miss a beat! She called up Opera Memphis for a curbside performance and invited the whole neighborhood (to step outside their doors at the appropriate time) to enjoy the celebration with beautiful music. The couple also received memories to last a life time. The evening was a fantastic success! We join Kim Hodges in saying “Happy Father’s Day and Happy Birthday to the ‘best parents evah!’” Wonder what she will do next time for an encore?!!
We were saddened to learn of the home going of Lois Sanders Chambers, mother of ‘Butch’ and Nancy Chambers and Stuart and Mindy Chambers Ashton of King George County, Maryland. She was a grandmother of seven and great grandmother to 10. Lois was preceded in death by her husband, Travis H. Chambers, Sr., and daughter, Beverley Chambers Phillips. Lois passed away last Wednesday, June 17, following an extended illness. Many “old timers” will fondly remember her from the Western Union office she ran for many years in Forest, as well as the popular family owned and operated Texaco Station.
Graveside services were held at Forest’s Eastern Cemetery, with Rev. David Slaughter, presiding. Our sincere sympathy to all the family.
Kitty Colbert enjoyed a weekend visit from her niece Linda Carr of Monroe.
So sorry to learn of the passing of Glenn Richard Dayton, Sr., husband of Gloria Simmons Dayton, on June 16. He died quite unexpectedly in South Dakota, while they were traveling home to Bostic, North Carolina, from a trip to meet his newest grandbabies.
He was preceded in death by a son, Glenn Richard Dayton, Jr. He is survived by his wife of 25 years, Gloria of Bostic, NC; children, Marc Dayton (Heather) of Spokane Valley, Washington; Gent Simmons of Jonkoping, Sweden; Melissa Greenlee (Keith) of Kennesaw, Georgia; Michelle Walker (Chris) of Chandler, Arizona, and Adam Dayton (Megan) of Ennis, Texas; 10 grandchildren and one great granddaughter. Services were conducted by James Smith on Friday, June 26 at Ott and Lee Funeral Home in Forest. Burial followed at Eastern Cemetery in Forest.
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