Obituaries

A graveside service for Vondell Thompson Gullette will be held Saturday, January 22, 2022, 11:00 a.m., at Magnolia Cemetery with Rev. Raymond Leake officiating. Webb & Stephens Funeral Home Downtown is entrusted with arrangements. Mrs. Gullette, 94, of Meridian, passed away Tuesday, January 18, 2022, at Bedford Care Center. Vondell was a lifelong member of First Baptist Church of Meridian. She graduated from Meridian High School in 1945 where she served as a drum majorette with the...

Graveside services for Mrs. Helen Irene Richert will be held Thursday at 11am at the St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery located 39th Ave. and 10th Street in Meridian. Mrs. Richert, 90, of Meridian, passed away Tuesday at her residence. Friends may sign the online register at www.webbstephens.com.

Graveside services for Billy Glenn Hastings, 83, will be Thursday, January 20, 2022, at 10:00am at Mt. Gilead Baptist Church Cemetery.  Bro. Jim Rickles and Bro. Marcus Finch will be officiating. Webb & Stephens Funeral Home – Downtown has been entrusted with his care. Mr. Hastings died Saturday, January 15, 2022, at Anderson Regional Medical Center. Mr. Hastings was retired from the 186th Air Refueling Wing with 40 years of military service. He was a devoted grandfather as...

Services honoring the life of Mr. John Reid will be held on Wednesday, January 19, 2022, at 11:00 a.m., at graveside.  Interment will be held in Forest Lawn Memory Gardens Cemetery. Mr. Reid, 73, of Meridian, passed away on Saturday, January 15, 2022, at home surrounded by his loved ones.   He retired from General Motors after having being employed for over 25 years.  He really loved his family and was very proud of his children and grandchildren.  He enjoyed...

Martha Eva White passed away peacefully in her home on January 15, 2022 at 85 years of age. Born on September 9, 1936 in Cordova, IL, Martha was the daughter of John and Helen Nelson. Moving with her family from Illinois to Mississippi at a young age, she was no stranger to adversity. Her strength of spirit and industrious nature was on display early on as an all-conference basketball player in Noxubee County, and most notably later, as a professional nurse for over 40 years. It was her...

Lena Mae Smith, 78, of Meridian, MS passed away at her home on January 14, 2022. Lena is preceded in death by her husband James Smith. She is survived by four children; Gail Null (Bobby), Kay Mitchell, Laneece Morgan (Gus) and Steve Smith; loving grandchildren Ed Breland (Brandy), Jamie Miller (Zach), Bobby Null (Hayley), Madison Bond (Zach), William Morgan, Dalton Smith, Zack Smith, along with ten Great Grandchildren. She is also survived by her extended family Tommy and Perian Miller,...

Cecile Pierce Bogan passed away peacefully on January 13th at Fair Haven, a Methodist Homes senior living community in Birmingham, Alabama. A long-time resident of Meridian, she was predeceased by her beloved husband, Erwin A. Bogan; her parents, Nina Westbrook Pierce and Elba C. Pierce; sisters Myrtis Yarbrough and Mable Whitaker; and her brothers, Newell and Julian Pierce. Mrs. Bogan is survived by her daughter, Deborah B. Woodall (Tom); her sons, Daniel W.  Bogan (Debbie), and...

Funeral services for Ouida Frazier Hogue will be Tuesday, January 18, 2022, at 2:00pm, at Frazier Grove Church, in Bailey, MS. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Bro. Randy Caldwell and Paul Hogue will be officiating. Visitation will be from 1:00 to 2:00 at the church. Mrs. Hogue, 72, died January 13, 2022, at her residence. Pallbearers will be Joshua Haskins, Jonah Haskins, Blake Henley, Jay Vick, Mac Vick, Mickey Vick, and Waylon Temple. “Momma Ouida”, as she was...

  Snookey, "Dook", Frances Kent Graveside services for Snookey Kent will be held Saturday, January 22 at 1:00 pm at Magnolia Cemetery. Mrs. Kent, 89, of Meridian passed away Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2022. She was a former employee of Riley Hospital and Peavey Electronics. All that knew her know that she loved her family, sports, and Mississippi State Bulldogs.   Left to cherish her memory are her daughter Linda Elliott Houston (Rick), Madison, MS and son Allen Kent,...