OBITUARIES – 12/10/2013

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Vicky Lynn Davis

TULA––Vicky Lynn Davis, 55, died Thursday, December 5, 2013 at her home in Tula.

Services will be held Thursday at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Waller Funeral Home with Rev. Jerry Merritt and Rev. Robert Drewery officiating. Graveside service will follow in Denmark Baptist Church Cemetery in Oxford. Visitation will be held Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the funeral home.

Born to the late Sidney Thomas and Kathleen Faye Harding Radford in Lafayette County, Davis was a manager at Larson’s Big Star in Oxford.  She was a member of Demark Baptist Church, serving as treasurer, and had been a Girl Scout Leader for 10 years.

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 Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Randy L. Davis.

Survivors include: three daughters, Tena Garretty of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Buffy Yarbrough of Grand Forks, N.D. and Melissa Gray of Oxford; two sons, Wayne Davis of Batesville and Johnathon Davis of Oxford; two brothers, Jimmy W. Radford of Southaven and Dennis L. Radford of St. Amant, La. and four grandchildren.

Memorials in Mrs. Davis’ memory may be made to the Denmark Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, 24 CR 423, Oxford, Miss.  38655.

Anita Kay Kehoe

WATER VALLEY––Anita Kay Kehoe, 57, died Friday, December 6, 2013 at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi.

Services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Seven Oaks Funeral Home in Water Valley. Bro. David Lewis and Bro. David Freeman will officiate. Burial will be in Pine Crest Cemetery in Yalobusha.

Visitation will be held today from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. at Seven Oaks Funeral Home.

Kehoe, born August 11, 1956 in Memphis, Willie Mae Thomas Ross of Coldwater and the late Don Ross, was employed at Borg-Warner for 17 years, was an assistant teacher at Davidson Elementary School and was presently employed with GE Aviation.

Survivors in addition to her mother, include: her husband of 35 years, David Kehoe of Water Valley; one son, Matt Kehoe of Water Valley; two daughters, Brandi Morris of Houston, Texas and Ashley Kehoe Fonte of Taylor; two sisters, Donna Paisley and Fay Ross both of Coldwater; one brother, Leon Ross of Hernando and four grandchildren.

Elizabeth Love

MEMPHIS—Elizabeth Love, 95, died Wednesday, December 4, 2013.
She was the mother of Ora Love of Sardis.

Services will be held Wednesday at noon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Como. Visitation will be held from 11 a.m. until services. Rodgers Funeral Home has charge.

Love was a homemaker and a member of the Eastern Star. She was a member of Ebenezer Baptist Church where she was an usher and on the Mother Board.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Lovell “Doc” Love.

Survivors also include: 35 grandchildren; 76 great-grandchildren; 42 great-great-grandchildren and 16 16 great-great-great-grandchildren.