Obituaries for Friday, March 14, 2008
Published 5:00 am Friday, March 14, 2008
Juanita ‘Dolly’ Caye Kinsey
Services for Juanita “Dolly” Caye Kinsey, of Brookhaven, will beheld at 2 p.m. on Friday, March 14, at Faith Presbyterian Church inBrookhaven with burial in Rosehill Cemetery. Brookhaven FuneralHome on Jackson Street is in charge of arrangements.
Visitation was held on Thursday evening, and will continue atthe church on Friday from 1 p.m. until the time of the service.
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Mrs. Kinsey, 87, went to be with the Lord on March 12, 2008. Shewas born in Brookhaven on Jan. 11, 1921, to Woolsey Mormon Caye andErnestine Wentworth Caye.
She was retired from her job with the Mississippi StateEmployment Office. She was a social worker, an artist and ahomemaker. She attended Mississippi State College for Women forover five years. She was a member of Faith Presbyterian Church.
Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Cy Kinsey;her brother, Buzzy Caye; and her sister, Priscilla Trainor.
Survivors are her son, Peter Caye Kinsey, of Brookhaven; herdaughters, Margaret “Vicki” Victoria Kinsey, of Brookhaven, andJuanita “Wendy” Smith, of Brookhaven; her sister, MargaretCampbell, of Brookhaven; her grandchildren, Michelle Vincent,Theresa Kinsey, Matthew Smith, Patty Kinsey, Laura Smith and NickSmith; her great-grandchildren, Ethan Vincent and Anna Vincent; anda host of nephews and nieces.
Memorials may be made to French Camp Academy, One Fine Place,French Camp, MS 39745.
Thomas Owen Roberts
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A memorial service for Thomas Owen Roberts will be held at 11a.m. on Saturday, March 15, 2008, at Faith Presbyterian Church inBrookhaven.
Visitation will be held on Saturday from 10:30 a.m. until thetime of the service at the church.
Mr. Roberts, 88, a prominent attorney and civic leader inBrookhaven since 1947, died on Feb. 21, 2008.
Michael Derek Tanner
Services for Michael Derek Tanner, of Brookhaven, will be heldat 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 15, at New Hope United MethodistChurch in Brookhaven with burial in the church cemetery. RiverwoodFamily Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.
Visitation is Friday from 5 until 9 p.m. at the funeral home,and on Saturday at the church from 10 a.m. until the time of theservice.
Mr. Tanner, 27, died March 11, 2008, in Amite County. He wasborn on June 7, 1980, to Mike Tanner and Nancy Tanner.
He was an oil field worker and was employed with H and PDrilling Co. He was a member of the Methodist faith.
Preceding him in death were his grandparents, Truly Smith Jr.and Shirley P. Smith.
Survivors are his parents; his sisters, Amy K. Tanner and Ivy P.Tanner and friend Jesus Delacruz; his grandparents, Rayford andKathleen Wallace; his great-grandmother, Kathryn Johnson, of WestPalm Beach, Fla.; his aunts and uncles, Lloyd and Becky Lofton,Danny and Debby Victory, Eddie and Sherry Tanner, Audie and RitaWallace, Wardell and Linda Sandifer, and Uncle Desi Case; hiscousins, Matthew Christa and Brianna Moore, Amber Christa, JonathonWallace and Megan Fonseco, Stephen Christa, Jasmine Dixon, DamonWallace, Tara Lambert, Tasha Wallace, Eric Lee Case and BrodyTanner; a very special niece, Vivianna Delacruz (who called him”D”), and a very special friend, Allison Buckley. He had many closefriends with whom he spent time and enjoyed him very much. You knowwho you are.
Sybil Carney White
Services for Sybil Carney White, 74, of Monticello, were held onThursday, March 13, at Divide Methodist Protestant Church inMonticello with burial in Tilton United Methodist Cemetery inMonticello. Wilson Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
She died March 10, 2008, at her residence. She was born inMonticello on July 9, 1933, to Walter Carney and Alice MohonCarney.
She was a homemaker and a member of Divide Methodist ProtestantChurch.
Preceding her in death were her parents; two brothers and foursisters.
Survivors are her two nieces, three nephews; and a host ofgreat-nieces and great-nephews.