OXFORD –  Roy Erhardt, 88, died Sunday, November 6, 2011, at the Mississippi State Veterans Home in Oxford. He was a member of Good Hope Baptist Church.

Services will be held today at 3 p.m. at Wells Funeral Home. Rev. Tim Morgan will officiate. Burial will be in Good Hope Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 1 p.m. until service time. Wells Funeral Home has charge.

Erhardt, born Aug. 25, 1923, to Rufus Edward and Ruby Jo Deck Erhardt, worked for International Harvester in Memphis for 31 years. He served his country in the United States Navy.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Clarcie Samples Erhardt.

Survivors include: his daughter, Paula Erhardt Casner of Bradenton, Fla.; one son, Gordon Douglas “Doug” Erhardt of Memphis; one sister, Lucille Erhardt Lee of Sacramento, Calif.; one grandchild; two great-grandchildren and five step-grandchildren.; nine step great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.

BATESVILLE – William “Bill” H. McCain, 66, died Sunday, November 6, 2011, at his residence.

Services will be held today at 10 a.m. at Wells Funeral Home with Rev. Paul Middleton officiating. Burial will follow in Pilgrim’s Rest Cemetery. Wells Funeral Home has charge.

McCain, born March 7, 1945, in Lafayette County, to the late Robert Herman and Marguerite Lucy Austin McCain, owned and operated McCain Builders in Batesville for over 39 years. He served his country in the United States Army. He was a member of First Baptist Church and a member of the National Rifle Association.

Survivors include: his wife, Ann McGehee McCain of Batesville; two sons, David Bryan and his wife, Laura Leigh McCain of Batesville and William Glenn and his wife Jennifer McCain of Batesville; three sisters, Betty Watts of Oxford, Dr. Dolores Barnett of Batesville and Kathy Tidwell and her husband, Larry of Batesville and six grandchildren, Katelyn, Madison, Lucy, Rachel, Anna and Zoe.

The family requests that memorials be sent to the American Heart Association.

BRIGHTON, Tenn. – Helen Pauline Booth Shumaker, 90, died Monday, October 31, 2011, at her daughter’s residence, in Batesville.

Services were held Wednesday at Jordan Funeral Home. Burial was in Kosciusko City Cemetery. Rev. Don Cook of Carthage officiated the ceremony.  Jordan Funeral Home had charge.

Shumaker, born to Escar L. Myrtia Reynolds Booth, was a 1938, graduate of Kosciusko High School and her father, E.L. Booth, who was Superintendent of the Kosciusko City Schools, at that time signed her diploma. She was a 1942 graduate of Millsaps College with a B.S. in Spanish and held graduate degrees from Mississippi State University in various majors.

She was a career teacher with 28 years of those being served in the Attala County School System teaching a wide variety of curriculums as well as taught adult basic education. She served on numerous State Department of Education commitees at one time.

She was president of the Retired Teachers of Attala County for a number of years as well as served as Regent of the Samuel Hammond Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She headed the Attala County Literary Program and was active in the American Legion, Ladies Auxiliary and the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

She along with her husband were charter members of Parkway Baptist Church where she taught Sunday school for a number of years as well as played piano for the Adult Department.

Survivors include: daughters, Rebecca Grantham of Batesville and Shelia Pumphrey and Laurel Patrick of Kosciusko; sons Tim Tyler of Duck Hill and Buddy Shumaker of Corinth; eight grandchildren and numerous  great-grandchildren.