Wesley Price, 66

Published 2:27 pm Thursday, February 25, 2021

Wesley Price, 66, passed away Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford.

Funeral services will be 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 27,  in the Martin Willingham Memorial Chapel of Wells Funeral Home with interment to follow at Black Jack Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at 3 p.m.

Wesley was born on Sept. 29, 1954, to the late Alvin LP and Mary Helen Jones Price in West Monroe, LA.

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He worked as the supervisor at Snack Time Vending Warehouse in Bruce, and was a member of the Black Jack Presbyterian Church. Wesley had a love for hunting, especially deer and rabbit.

The family left behind to cherish his memory include his wife, Betty Smith Price of Batesville; two children, Nicole Hale of Arkansas, and Paul Lantrip of Sardis; his two sisters; and two grandchildren, Benjamin Hale and Aiden Breaux.

Along with his parents, he is preceded in death by three children, Carl Price, Melissa Lantrip, and Matthew Lantrip.