Goodwin

Obituaries - G

Clarke County Tribune, Volume X, Number 38, January 1920, page 1

DEATH OF DR. GAVIN

The remains of Dr. D. L. Gavin, who died at Chicora, Miss., Saturday, were brought here on the noon train Sunday and were met y the members of the Masonic order and other friends and conveyed to the Methodist church where they laid in state until 3 p.m., at which hour funeral services were held, Rev. Wood officiating, after which the Masons, in full regalia, took charge, conveying the remains to the Odd fellows cemetery where they were laid to rest with Masonic honors. Dr. Gavin having been a member of that order, and of the Methodist church, in the highest standing-practically every citizen of the town having attended the funeral and burial, there to pay their last respects to one whom they had known through the years of his childhood, and later as physician, and loved him because of his many beautiful traits of character as exemplified through the long years of their association with him.

The many costly floral designs and the wreath of sweet flowers, and wreaths of immortellies (sic) that were laid about the grave, at the close told of the love and high esteem in which Dr. Gavin was held at home and abroad, many of those coming from friends in the towns at a distance where he had lived and practiced his profession.

Dr. Gavin was a son of Quitman's venerable citizen, Mr. G. C. Gavin; a brother of the late noted specialist, of Mobile, Dr. G. E. Gavin, and of Dr. E. I. Gavin, Richton, and Rev. Gavin, besides those above, who are living he leaves a wife and three small children to whom assurance of the deepest sympathy is extended by our people, for all who knew "Luke" and loved him, for his many noble traits of character.

Surely for one who was so richly endowed with redeeming traits peaceful will he sleep and glorious the awakening.

Meridian Star, January 25, 2007 Submitted by Debora Reese

Bobbie Jean Blackwell Goodwin

Homemaker

QUITMAN — Graveside services for Bobbie Jean Blackwell Goodwin will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery with the Rev. Jeffery Downs officiating. Wright’s Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Goodwin, 76, of Vossburg, died Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007, in her home. She was a former employee of Mississippi Gas, Kenningtons, Jackson Daily News and she wrote poetry. She will be remembered as one who loved all members of her family and she will be greatly missed. She was a member of West Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. She was looking forward to the birth of her first great-grandson.

Survivors include her son, Gary Goodwin and his wife, Karen, of Vossburg; brothers, Tommy Blackwell and Michael Blackwell, both of Hattiesburg; a sister, Ouida Altman of Hattiesburg; grandchildren, Kayla Dunnam and her husband, Kyle, Chase Goodwin and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, William A. Goodwin and a brother, Jerry Blackwell.

Pallbearers will be Andy West, E.W. Goodwin, John Allen Goodwin, Paul Harwell, David West and Ernie Culbreth.

Visitation will be today beginning at 5 p.m. at the funeral home.

Clarke County Tribune, Volume XXXI, Number 27, January 3, 1941

Mrs. Della Price Gresham

Mrs. Della Price Gresham, of Crandall Miss., Route Two, passed away January 1, 1941 at 5:30 p. m.

She is survived by her husband O. F. Gresham; four daughters, Helen Louise, Mary Earline, Ada, Nellie Ruth and two sons, Francis Delbert and Thomas David.

Funeral service were held January 2, 1941 at 2 p.m.

McClellan and Walters Funeral Home was in charge.