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Warren Biggers Sr.
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On Tue, 07/27/2021 - 09:54 AM
SUMNER — Warren “W.T.” Biggers Sr., age 90, retired barber of Sumner, passed away Friday, July 23.
Graveside services were held 2 p.m. Sunday, July 25, at Woodlawn Cemetery in Sumner. Newsom Funeral Home had charge of arrangements.
He was born in Friendship to Word and Irene Biggers. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army.
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‘May his light continue to guide us’: Civil rights leader Bob Moses dies at 86
By Kayleigh Skinner and Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, 258 Reads
Mon, 07/26/2021 - 09:18 AM
Robert “Bob” Parris Moses, a civil rights leader, educational advocate and pioneer in grassroots community organizing whose efforts played a key role in helping Black Mississippians gain basic rights, died Sunday at 86.
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Elise Varner Winter

Elise Varner Winter, former first lady and community activist, dies at 95
By Mississippi Today Staff, 231 Reads
Mon, 07/19/2021 - 11:12 AM
Editor’s note: This obituary was provided to Mississippi Today by the family of Elise Varner Winter and was written by longtime family friend JoAnne Prichard Morris.

Elise Varner Winter, the widow of Mississippi Gov. William Winter, died July 17, 2021, in Jackson. She was 95.
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Elise Winter
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On Mon, 07/19/2021 - 08:53 AM
JACKSON – Elise Varner Winter, the widow of Mississippi Gov.
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Leslie Ramsey
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On Tue, 07/13/2021 - 03:29 PM
PHILIPP — Leslie “June P.” Ramsey, 72, of Philipp passed away Sunday, July 11, at UMMC in Grenada.
Services will be held graveside at noon Saturday, July 17, at Independent-Tyro M.B. Church Cemetery. Pate-Jones Funeral Home had charge of arrangements.
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Dorothy Berry
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On Mon, 07/12/2021 - 04:27 PM
WEBB — Dorothy T. Berry, age 96, a retired sewing machine operator at Ruleville Manufacturing, passed away Monday, July 12, at Walter B. Crook Nursing Facility in Ruleville.
Funeral services are 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 13, at Woodlawn Cemetery in Sumner. Meredith-Nowell Funeral Home in Clarksdale is handling the arrangements.
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James Mitchell
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On Mon, 07/12/2021 - 11:04 AM
GRENADA — James Oscar Mitchell, 68, of Grenada, passed away Monday, July 5, at his home.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, July 7, at McKibben & Guinn Funeral Service with interment following in Smith Cemetery at Rosebloom.
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Janie McGee
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On Mon, 07/12/2021 - 11:02 AM
CHARLESTON — Janie B. McGee, age 76, passed away Friday afternoon, July 9.
The family will receive friends on Monday, July 12, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the chapel of Newsom Funeral Home. The service will be Tuesday, July 13, beginning 1 p.m. in the chapel as well, with interment following in Springhill Cemetery located near Oakland.
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Carolyn Harris
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On Tue, 07/06/2021 - 08:57 AM
CHARLESTON — Carolyn Lance Harris, age 84, passed away Wednesday, June 30, in Memphis, Tenn.
Funeral services were 2 p.m. Monday, July 5, at Womble Funeral Home chapel in Charleston with Rev. Frank Ward conducting.
She is the wife of William Roderick Harris. They shared 28 years of marriage together.
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Sara Sykes
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On Tue, 07/06/2021 - 08:50 AM
RIDGELAND — Sara Ellen Cook Sykes, 84, departed this life peacefully on Thursday, July 1, at Hospice Ministries in Ridgeland.
A graveside service will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday July 6, at Magnolia Gardens Cemetery the the Paynes community with Bro. Terry Corley officiating. Womble Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
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