Ernestine Castilaw Armond

Services for Ernestine Castilaw Armond of Wesson were 2 p.m.Sunday, Jan. 9 at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel with burial inLittle Bahalia Baptist Church Cemetery.

Mrs. Armond, 75, died Jan. 7, 2005, at King’s Daughters MedicalCenter. She was born in Monticello on March 14, 1929, to LeonJohnson and Grace Jackson Johnson.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of Little Bahalia BaptistChurch.

Preceding her in death were her parents; and two husbands; JamesCastilaw and Huey Armond.

Survivors are her daughter, Sheila Cothern of Bogue Chitto; hersons, James Ronnie Castilaw and Lonnie Rex Castilaw, both ofWesson; two half sisters; seven half brothers; three grandchildren,Lowell Castilaw, Carthy Castilaw and Tina Ruffin; and onegreat-grandchild, Anna Riley Ruffin.

Marguerite Hammons Lord Phillips Gray

Services for Marguerite Hammons Lord Phillips Gray of Grenadawere 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 9 at Garner-Harper Funeral Home in Grenadawith burial in Holcomb Cemetery.

Mrs. Gray, 90, died Jan. 7, 2005, at Hospice Ministries inRidgeland. She was born April 28, 1914, to Att W. Hammons andTilmon Moore Hammons of Holcomb.

She graduated from Holcomb High School in 1933, and attendedGrenada College for two years. She graduated from Woman’s Collegein Hattiesburg in 1937. She taught high school English in Tylertownfor a year and then married Dennis Lord of New York, N.Y. in 1939and lived there for a number of years. Dennis died in 1971 andMarguerite moved to Grenada where she lived with her mother and herbrother, Garnet Hammons.

She married Howard Phillips in 1973 and moved to Brookhavenwhere she lived until his death in 2001. Howard was retired fromASCS.

Marguerite married William M. Gray, a retired Postal employee,and former school mate at Holcomb High School in Dec. 2002, andlived in Grenada.

Preceding her in death were her parents; four brothers, FrankHammons, Att W. Hammons Jr., Victor G. Hammons, and John HaroldHammons; one sister, Lucy Hammons Elfert.

Survivors are her husband, William M. Gray; one brother, AlbertS. Hammons of Cleveland; three sisters, Patsy Hammons Arnold, ofBirmingham, June Hammons Knight, of Jackson, and Mary CharlotteNeal, of Jackson; and six stepdaughters; a number ofstepgrandchildren, nieces and nephews.

Memorials may be made to Hospice Ministries of Ridgeland orothers of your choice.

Robert E. ‘Bob’ Lohr

Services for Robert E. “Bob” Lohr of Brookhaven are 2 p.m.Tuesday, Jan. 11 at Harrigill Funeral Home Chapel with burial inPleasant Grove Cemetery.

Visitation is today from 4-9 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mr. Lohr, 70, died Jan. 8, 2005, at King’s Daughters MedicalCenter. He was born in Marion, Ohio, on March 2, 1934, to RalphLeroy Lohr and Geneivie Hornavius Lohr.

He retired from work as a mechanic and shop foreman forHarrigill Postal Service and Harrigill Trucking Company. He was amember of First Church of God and Pleasant Grove BaptistChurch.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his first wife,Marilyn; his second wife, Ruth; one son Ralph Lohr; two brothers,Paul Lee Lohr and Lloyd Leroy Lohr; and two sisters, VirginiaMcCormick and Charlotte Sugden.

Survivors are his wife, Cindy Lohr of Brookhaven; his daughter,Lacey M. Case of Brookhaven; his son, Joshua G. Smith ofBrookhaven; his sister, Norma Corfman and her husband, Harold May,of Nevada, Ohio, and Carole Allshouse and her husband, Chris, ofBucyrus, Ohio; his brothers, David Lohr and his wife, Barb, andSteve Lohr and his wife, Pat, all of Bocyrus, Roy Lohr and hiswife, Etta, of Sycamore, Ohio, and Carl Lohr and his wife, Becky,of Nevada, Ohio; his mother and father-in-law, Gerald and JeanTownsend of Brandon; two sisters-in-law, Regenia Pappas and herhusband, Mickey, and Donna Fauver and her husband, Terry, all ofBrookhaven; and a host of nieces, nephews and other relatives.

Dorothy Jerolene ‘Jerri’ Remsing

Graveside services for Dorothy Jerolene “Jerri” Remsing ofLawrence County are 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 11 at EasthavenCemetery.

Visitation is Monday from 5-9 p.m. at Community FuneralServices.

Mrs. Remsing, 78, died Jan. 9, 2005, at Lawrence County NursingHome. She was born in Copiah County on Nov. 17, 1926, to Oscar Kingand Gladys Mercier King.

She was a homemaker.

Preceding her in death were her parents; and her husband, JosephRemsing.

Survivors are her daughters, Stephanie Davis, of Monticello, andDeborah Keller, of Wesson; her son, William J. Remsing, ofBrookhaven; her brother, Larry G. King of Conway, Ark.; fourgrandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.