Obituaries 9-2-11

Published 12:00 am Friday, September 2, 2011

Bobby Lewis Campbell

HERNANDO – Bobby Lewis Campbell, 54, died Saturday, August 27, 2011, at his residence.

Services were Thursday at Dickins Funeral Home. Burial was in Liberty Hill Cemetery. Dickins Funeral Home had charge.

Campbell, born May 18, 1957, to the late James Lewis Campbell and Minnie Jewell Ford Campbell, was an accountant with the Internal Revenue Service. He devoted his time to rescuing dogs in trouble.

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Survivors include: one son, Bobby Lewis Campbell Jr. of Memphis; one sister, Dianne Scott of Olive Branch and David Campbell of Byhalia.

Callie Edith Bain Gentry

BATESVILLE – Callie Edith Bain Gentry, 94, died Sunday, August 28, 2011, at Tri-Lakes Medical Center.

Memorial services were held Wednesday at Tisdale Lann Memorial Funeral Home.

Gentry, born in Aberdeen, May 3, 1917, lived with her two sisters as young girls at the Methodist Orphanage in Jackson. She was united in marriage to James C. Gentry in Aberdeen on Dec. 13, 1933. She was a homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her husband, James C. Gentry and one son, Sidney Wayne Gentry.

Survivors include: her children, H.C. Gentry of Kenosha, Wis., Carolyn Faye Palmer of Denham Springs, La., Norma Ann Wohlwend of Courtland, Ben Gentry of Houston, Texas and Carla D. Hatchett of Shreveport; 13 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

E.Q. “Quie” Oliver

BATESVILLE – E.Q. “Quie” Oliver, 77, died Monday, August 29, 2011, at Golden Living Center.

Services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Armstrong Street Church of God. Terry Townsend will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be held today from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. at Cooley’s Mortuary. Cooley’s Mortuary has charge.

Oliver, born May 28, 1934, to Frank Oliver and Willie Mae Carr Oliver, was a retired truck driver. He was a member of Armstrong Street Church of God.

Survivors include: two daughters, Freddie Shaw of Batesville and Mary Thomas of Chicago; one step-daughter, Annie Faye Blackburn of Batesville; five step-sons, Willie McGill and Robert McGill, Carnel McGill, all of Oxford, Mike McGill of Miami and Phil McGill of Houston, Texas; two sisters, Mary Frank Turner and Louise Chapman of Batesville; three brothers, Milton Oliver, Sidney Oliver and O.C. Oliver, all of St. Louis; six grandchildren; 13 step-grandchildren; four great-grandchildren and 26 step-grandchildren.