Area Obituaries

A funeral service for Jason Riley, 52, of New Hebron, was held Aug. 1, 2020, at New Hebron Baptist Church. He passed away July 28 in Jackson. Rev. Mike Grenn and Rev. Jeremy Knowles officiated. Denise Leggett performed the musical service. Interment was in the New Hebron Cemetery. Saulters Funeral Home handled arrangements. Pallbearers were…

Graveside services for Brenda Faye McRaney were held at July 29, 2020, at the R. T. Robbins Memorial Cemetery at the New Hebron Pentecostal Church. Mrs. McRaney, 74, passed away from this life on July 26 at her residence in New Hebron. Rev. Cliff Hilton and Rev. Robert H. Jones officiated. Saulters Funeral Home handled…

Graveside services were held Aug. 1, 2020, at Friendship Baptist Church, Monticello, for Douglas Harris, who died July 29 at St. Dominic Hospital, Jackson, . Rev. Kelvin Langston, pastor, officiated, with Johnson Funeral Home handling arrangements. Mr. Harris was born to the late Johnnie Lee and Clotiel Harris in Monticello. He joined Friendship Baptist Church…

Elaine Cecelia Earls, 78, of Old Silver Creek, passed from this life on Aug. 1, 2020. A graveside service was held Aug. 5 at Old Silver Creek Cemetery, with Wilson Funeral Home handling arrangements. Mrs. Earls was born on Sept. 24, 1941, in New Orleans, La., to the late Lettel Joseph Gaspard and Helen Zua…

Funeral services for Harold Caul, 73, of Jayess were held Aug. 1, 2020, at Divide Memorial Methodist Protestant Church in Monticello. Burial followed in the Tilton Cemetery in Jayess. Bro. LaDonn Dawson officiated the services, with Wilson Funeral Home handling arrangements. He passed from this life on July 30 at Asbury Hospice House in Hattiesburg.…

Graveside services for Debra Marie McCullough Bourn, of Brookhaven, were held Aug. 5, 2020, at Riverwood Memorial Park. Mrs. Bourn, 62, went to be with her Lord on July 30 at King’s Daughters Medical Center. Riverwood Family handled arrangements. She was born on Aug. 29, 1957, to the late William Cloy “W.C.” McCullough and Thelma…

Bill Rawls, 56, of Silver Creek, passed away from this life July 24, 2020, at his residence. A celebration of life service will be held at a later date. Saulters Funeral Home is handling arrangements. William Charles Rawls Jr. was born on August 9, 1963, in Jackson, to William Charles Rawls Sr. and Mignyon Dampeer…