OXFORD — Gravesite services are scheduled tomorrow for John Leslie, the former longtime mayor of Oxford, who died Saturday at the Mississippi Veterans Home in Oxford. He was 88. Leslie served six terms as mayor and worked as a pharmacist in Oxford for 38 years. Officials with Waller Funeral Homes said today that a graveside [...] [...]
MERIDIAN — A memorial service is scheduled Friday for former Meridian Mayor I.A. “Al” Rosenbaum, a community leader and businessman who worked tirelessly to bring new industry to east Mississippi. In a statement, the family said Rosenbaum died Saturday of natural causes at his Meridian home. He was 92. The family said a memorial service [...] [...]
JACKSON — Celia Emmerich, the matriarch of the Emmerich newspaper family, died yesterday at her home in Jackson. She was 80. The family said in a statement that she died of a heart attack. Celia Emmerich was the widow of former Associated Press board member and ex-Greenwood Commonwealth editor/publisher John Emmerich. John Emmerich died in [...] [...]
JACKSON — U.S. District Judge W. Allen Pepper Jr., appointed to the bench in 1999 by President Bill Clinton, died yesterday. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports Pepper died about 3:45 p.m. after a heart attack at St. Dominic’s Hospital in Jackson. He was 70 years old. A spokeswoman for the Northern District of Mississippi’s [...] [...]
JACKSON — U.S. District Judge W. Allen Pepper Jr., appointed to the bench in 1999 by President Bill Clinton, died yesterday. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports Pepper died about 3:45 p.m. after a heart attack at St. Dominic’s Hospital in Jackson. He was 70 years old. A spokeswoman for the Northern District of Mississippi’s [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: January 11,2012
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JACKSON — Dr. A. Wallace Conerly, vice chancellor emeritus for health affairs at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and dean emeritus of the School of Medicine, died yesterday in the UMMC hospital that bears his name. He was 76. Conerly, who served as vice chancellor from 1994-2003, had been hospitalized early yesterday at the [...] [...]
RIPLEY — The body of Ripley Mayor Kerry W. Hill was found yesterday at his residence. He was 75. Police Chief Scott White says there were no signs of foul play. White says Hill’s son, Brad, had been unable to reach Hill by phone, went by his father’s apartment and found his body. Alderman Bonnie [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 13,2011
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FORT WORTH, TEXAS — Texas author Jay Milner, who went from being a football star to a coach to a journalist, novelist and teacher whose contemporaries included David Halberstam and Larry McMurtry, has died in Fort Worth, Taxas. He was 88. Milner’s robust career brought him to Dallas in 1969, when Southern Methodist University hired [...] [...]
NEW ALBANY — Former state Sen. Walter A. “Pud” Graham has died. He was 75. Graham died at his home in New Albany Saturday after being in the hospital the previous week, undergoing a medical procedure. Officials with United Funeral Service said services would be held today at Ingomar Baptist Church in New Albany with [...] [...]
JACKSON — Michael Rubenstein, the long-time director of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame in Jackson, has died. He was 60. Funeral arrangements are incomplete. Rubenstein died of a heart attack Wednesday night, according to his office in Jackson. Rubenstein had served as executive director of the Sports Hall since 1996. During his tenure, the [...] [...]
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