John Allen (77) passed away on April 25, 2024. Forrest Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Walter Lavert Breland (91), of Brooklyn, passed away on April 24, 2024. Burial is in Big Level Cemetery, and Moore Funeral Service handled arrangements.
Sharon Calbery (65), of Hattiesburg, passed away on April 17, 2024. Forrest Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Virginia Huff Fortenberry (89), passed away on April 19, 2024. Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Robert E. Guy (63) passed away on April 27, 2024. Burial is in Grantham Cemetery, and Forrest Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Phyllis Marie Harrington (90), passed away on April 26, 2024. Visitation will be held from 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 2 at Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home, with a Mass of Christina Burial to follow. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery.
Stephanie “Taffie” Lowery Hartfield (57), of Sumrall, passed away on April 23, 2024. Burial is in Highland Cemetery, and Moore Funeral Service handled arrangements.
Gerald D. Hatten (88), of Hattiesburg, passed away on April 22, 2024. Burial is in Rawles Cemetery, and Moore Funeral Service handled arrangements.
Christopher Allen Holt (52), of Petal, passed away on April 22, 2024. Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Jerry Jager, Jr. (95), of Sumrall, passed away on April 27, 2024. Visitation will be from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 2 at First Baptist Church of Sumrall. A service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, May 3 at First Baptist Church of Sumrall, with burial to follow in First Baptist Church of Sumrall Cemetery. Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
CW4 William H. “Billy” Shimp (U.S. Army Ret) (92), of Brooklyn, passed away on April 27, 2024. Visitation will be held from 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. on Friday, May 3 at Moore Funeral Home, with a service to follow. Burial will be in Shattles Cemetery.
Bruce Lucus (84), of Sumrall, passed away on April 26, 2024. Burial is in Hickory Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, and Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Allen Wayne McDaniel (67), of Petal, passed away on April 22, 2024. Moore Funeral Service handled arrangements.
Mavis McGuffee (86), of Hattiesburg, passed away on April 27, 2024. Moore Funeral Service handled arrangements.
Tony Odom (67), of Petal, passed away on April 27, 2024. Burial is in Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery, and Moore Funeral Service handled arrangements.
Stewart Lewis Stephenson, Sr. (77), of Hattiesburg, passed away on April 29, 2024. Visitation will be held from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 2 at Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home.
Ramona Stodghill (55), of Hattiesburg, passed away on April 16, 2024. Forrest Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Bernadine “Bonnie” Tisdelle (91), of Hattiesburg, passed away on April 22, 2024. Burial is in Highland Cemetery, and Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home handled arrangements.
Eleanor Green Gerrard (94) passed away on April 23, 2024 in Oxford, Miss. A memorial service for Mrs. Gerrard, of Hattiesburg, is scheduled for Monday, May 20 at 2:00 pm at Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home. Visitation will begin at Hulett-Winstead at 12:30 pm.
Mrs. Gerrard was a native of Grenada and a resident of Hattiesburg since 1959. She and her husband, A.L. “Bud” Gerrard, owned One Hour Martinizing Cleaners until Mr. Gerrard’s election as Hattiesburg city commissioner in 1972. He was elected mayor in 1973 and re-elected in 1977. Mrs. Gerrard was the first woman to serve on the Hattiesburg School Board in 1972 and became chairman in 1976. She also served on the boards of the South Central Mississippi chapter of the American Red Cross, Hattiesburg Public Library, and the Hattiesburg Junior Auxillary. She volunteered at the Christian Women’s Job Corps and the Court Appointed Special Advocate service. Eleanor’s passion, though, was her faith and her church. She worshipped and served at First Baptist Church in many capacities for over fifty years.
Eleanor Green Gerrard graduated Grenada High School in May 1947 and matriculated to Mississippi College the following September. She was elected “Most Beautiful” her freshman year at MC. Mrs. Gerrard transferred to Ole Miss in the fall of 1948 and joined the Delta Delta Delta sorority. She was selected as a campus favorite in 1948, 1949, and 1950; and an Ole Miss beauty in 1949 and 1950. She graduated in 1951 with a B.A. in Education. She taught high school English in Grenada and Hattiesburg for several years.
Mrs. Gerrard is survived by her daughters Melissa Rutland and Tracie Gulley, and their husbands Dwight Rutland and Jim Gulley, all of Oxford, four grandchildren, Ben Steadman, Jay Gulley, Rob Gulley, and Kate Potts, and four great-grandchildren.
Greg McLelland, age 45, passed away peacefully at home in Ocean Springs on April 3, 2024. His passing marked the end of a 15-month battle with glioblastoma brain cancer.
Greg was a native of Ocean Springs and a 1996 graduate of Ocean Springs High School where he participated in band and scouts. He later received a BS degree in engineering technology and a MS degree in audio design and engineering at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. At the time of his passing he was employed as a specialty engineer for 19 years at Litton-Ingalls in Pascagoula MS. His hobbies included playing bluegrass music with the local band, Hound City Ramblers, in which he was an accomplished bass and mandolin player.
He is predeceased by his grandparents, Charner and Doris McLelland, and Mary Frances Jones Woods, Albert Woods, and W. Arlington Jones. All are of Hattiesburg.
He is survived by his wife, Caryn, and three children, Madison, Brandon and Lillian of Ocean Springs; his parents Jerry and Margaret (Jones) McLelland of Hattiesburg, his brother, Marcus McLelland (Melinda) of Hattiesburg, and numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Funeral services and interment were held in Ocean Spring on April 9, 2024.
