OBITUARIES

WINGO: Mrs. Florence (Maggie) Wingo of Route 3, Rienzi, died at 10:50 a.m. Sunday at the Northeast Mississippi Hospital at Booneville after an extended illness.  She was 87. Mrs. Wingo was a member of Kemps Chapel Baptist Church. Survivors include two sons, Walter Frank Wingo of Meridian, Miss., and Elijah Wingo of Booneville; four daughters, Mrs. Pauline Cartwright of Booneville, Mrs. Jessie Rinehart and Mrs. Lewis Rorie, both of Rienzi, and Mrs. Jim Moore of Gainesville, Fla.; two brothers, Henry Cheek and Nobel Cheek, both of Tupelo; 36 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at Kemp's Chapel with the Rev. Grady Guntharp and the Rev. Tom Rayborn officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pall bearers will be grandsons. McPeters Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

 Note: A legal notice was dated Oct. 14, 1969.

VANDERFORD: Leonard (Bill) Vanderford, 76, died Monday at Tishomingo County Hospital in Iuka. A member of the Macedonia Freewill Baptist church, he was a retired farmer and school bus driver. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Macedonia Freewill Baptist Church with the Rev. R. C. Spencer officiating. Burial will be in Williams Cemetery with McPeters funeral directors in charge of arrangements. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Katie Powers Vanderford of corinth; three sons, Roy Vanderford of Burnsville, Troy Vanderford of Glen, and Jerry Vanderford of Tupelo; a brother, Dave Vanderford of Rienzi; a sister, Mrs. Leatha Nash of Rienzi and two grandchildren. Pallbearers include Earl Grissom, Jackie Baswell, Ray Nash, Jernall Vanderford, George Bonds

IN MEMORIAM

WOOD:  Written in memory of Lonnie Ray Wood who was accidentally killed
on April 16, 1962.  Written by his mother, Mrs. R. R. Wood.

We're lonesome and blue in these days of  trouble
We're traveling along with tear-dimmed eyes.
We're thinking of home where we'll all be to-gether
How happy we'll be on the other side.
You struggled along in this world so cold
To make others happy, and helped to save souls.
We didn't know that morning when you left for work
What the Lord was thinking or how we'd be hurt.
But he was good to us, he was good to you,
He saved your soul and now you are through.
The Dear Lord called your daddy away
So you two are to-gether resting in peace.
While your two brothers and I are left to mourn and weep
But we know some day if we will live true,
We three that's left, will join you two.

BIRTHDAY

COSBY: HAPPY 93--Fred Cosby of Rienzi celebrated his 93rd birthday May 3. He is the father of Loil Cosby of Booneville; Elton Cosby of Care Inn, Corinth; Allene Pounders of Hollywood, Ala.; Beatrice Elliott of Red Bay, Ala.; Nedra Killough of Michie, Tn. and Estil Hughes of Rienzi. He has 32 grandchildren, 74 Great-grandchildren and 18 great-great-grandchildren.  On the first Sunday in May each year 62 friends and relatives join to celebrate his birthday.  Note: sorry no year given.

Talk Of The Town by Judy Coleman. 

Cooking By The Bible

     Mrs. Marvin Robbins (Helen) of here in Corinth was given her grandmother's
family Bible.  In thumbing through the pages she discovered a clipping of an
unusual recipe that the white haired lady had put there years ago for safe keeping.

     Little did Helen's grandmother know that her system of using the family Bible
for filing, would leave a moment of memorable reading for a future generation.

     Here's the wording from the clipping:

     "The first time the new preacher comes to dinner, try this cake.

     "Grandmother used to make Scripture Cake everytime a new preacher came
to our house for the first time.

     "We would have a lot of fun talking about it at the table, and she always said
it was a good way to find out whether the new preacher knew his Bible.

     "It will take you a little time to look up the key words.  Some rainy day you
might get both young and old members of the family to work looking up the
scriptures." was the notation.

SCRIPTURE CAKE

1 1/2 cup of Judges, 5:25 last few words
2 cups Jeremiah, 6:20
2 cups Nahum, 3:12
1 cup Numbers, 17:8
4 1/2 cups I Kings, 4:22, first few words
6 cups Jeremiah, 17:11
A pinch of Leviticus, 2:13
2 Tablespoons I Samuel, 14:25, last
II Chronicles, 9:9 season to taste
1/2 cup Judges, 4:19, last few words
2 tablespoons Amos, 4:5, first clause

The way to do it:  "Follow Solomon's prescription for making a good boy,
Proverbs 23:14 and you'll have a good cake."

-O-

The courtsquare whittler says, "When a minister rehearses his Sunday sermon,
would you say he is practicing what he preaches?"

Note:  This article I found in Mother's Bible was very old and yellow. 
It was from the Daily Corinthian.

OBITUARIES

NASH: Millard F. "Red" Nash, 68,of Rienzi, died unexpectedly Monday, January 2, 1995, at Magnolia Hospital in Corinth. Services were Tuesday, January 3, at 2 p.m. at Kemp's Chapel Baptist Church with the Rev. Charles Stephenson and the Rev. Charlie Cooper officiating.  Burial was in Kemp's Chapel Cemetery. McMillan Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Mr. Nash was a Baptist and retired from Gordon Transport. He is survived by his wife, Bernice Holloway Nash; a daughter, Tammy Williams of Memphis; a son, Steve Nash of Memphis; two stepsons, David Moody and Danny Moody, both of Pascagoula; four sisters, Avis Burcham and Evelene Palmer, both Rienzi, Gladys Lambert of Booneville and Laverne Dowd of Glen; a brother, Willard Nash of Rienzi; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. He was preceded in death by one son, Mallard "Junior" Nash; and one brother, Roscoe Nash.

 BURCHAM: Services for Stanley Burcham, 77, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Tobes Chapel Pentecostal Church. He died Wednesday, January 24, 1990, at Magnolia Hospital. He was a retired carpenter. Burial will be in Vanderford Cemetery. Officiating will be the Revs. Cecil Woodruff and Billy Hutson. Survivors include four sisters, Artie Britton, Audrey Burcham, and Virgie Williams, all of Corinth, and Maggie Rogers of Tumwater, Washington; one brother, Leslie Burcham of Corinth; and several nieces and nephews. BROOKS: Services for Lucille Taylor Brooks, 88, will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Coleman Funeral Home Chapel. She died Monday, July 10, 1989, at Jacksonville Hospital in Jacksonville, Arkansas. She was the widow of Howard Brooks. She was a homemaker, a former employee of Coleman Funeral Home and Burial Insurance, a member of the First Presbyterian Church and past president of the Corinth Welfare Association. Burial will be in Forrest Memorial Park. The officiating minister will be the Rev. Christy Morgan. Survivors include six daughters, Laverne Phifer and Fredia Wilbanks, both of Corinth, Martha Sue Deason, Jennie Bradley and Raynell Pate, all of Jacksonville, Arkansas, and Vernell Killough of Jackson, Tennessee; 16 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren and 10 great-great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be Hull Davis, Joe Dixon, Joe Vann, Bobby Worsham, Van Hedges, and Sammy Kemp. 

BURCHAM: Services for Willard Cleveland Burcham, 78, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Macedonia Freewill Baptist Church. He died Monday, August 7, 1989, at the Pickwick Manor Nursing Home in Iuka after an extended illness. He was a member of the Sardis Primitive Baptist Church and a retired bus driver for the Alcorn County School System. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Officiating will be the Rev. Cecil Woodruff and the Rev. Larry Dollar. Survivors include two sons, Ray Burcham of Corinth, Alton Burcham of Glen; one sister, Ruby Carpenter of Corinth; three half sisters, Lucille Wilkins of Corinth, Minnie Belle Haynes and Georgia Voyles, both of Rienzi; three half brothers, Edward Burcham of Tishomingo, Elijah Burcham of Rienzi, Cecil Burcham of Burnsville; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Visitation will be from 5 to 10 p.m. tonight at the funeral home. The body will be placed at the church from 9 to 10 a.m. Coleman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. 

OUTLAW: Mary Delene Outlaw, 72, of Booneville, died Sunday, July 2, 1995, at her home after an extended illness. Services were Tuesday, July 4, at 3 p.m. at McMillan Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Loyd Stevens and the Rev. Ben Griffin officiating. Burial was in Lebanon Cemetery. Mrs. Outlaw was the widow of Blanton Outlaw. She was a housewife and a member of Fairview Baptist church. She is survived by seven daughters, Debra Henderson, Mary Manley, Elizabeth Thompson and Shelia Ellis, all of Booneville, Juania Miller of Red Bay, Alabama; two sons, Milton Outlaw and Bonnie Outlaw, both of Booneville; one brother, Henry S. Harrison of Nashville, Tennessee; 16 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Pallbearers were her grandsons, Bradley Geno, Al Bowling, Steven Conant, Brian Huddleston, Kevin Huddleston, Matthew Miller, Mike Barnes, Jeff Barnes, Bobby Ellis and Mike Ellis. 

RORIE: Funeral services for Mildred Rorie, 68, will be held at 3 p.m. today at Coleman Funeral Home with the Revs. Larry Ball and Tom Campbell officiating. Burial will be in Clear Creek Cemetery. She died Saturday, January 15, 1994, at Magnolia Hospital. She was a homemaker and a member of Church of Christ. Mrs. Rorie was preceded in death by her husband, Gordon Rorie, and one daughter, Gidget Ann Rorie. Survivors include two daughters, Loris Loveless of Glen and Linda Vanderford of Corinth; two sons, Tim Rorie of Selmer, Tennessee, and Scotty Evetts of Corinth; five brothers, Herman Smith of Walnut, Milton Smith, Amos Smith and Hershel Smith, all of Corinth, and Gene Smith of Smithville; 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. 

RORIE: Services for Gidget Ann Rorie, 19, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Coleman East Funeral Home Chapel. Miss Rorie died Tuesday at the Econo Lodge Motel. She was a member of the Church of Christ, a graduate of Alcorn Central High School and an employee of McDonald's of Corinth. Survivors include her mother, Mildred Evetts Rorie of Corinth; five sisters, Linda Vanderford of Corinth, Loris Gann of Glen, Frankie McGill and Freda Sanderson, both of Iuka, and Donna Nelson of Cherokee, Alabama; three brothers, Scottie Evetts and Tim Rorie, both of Corinth, and Milton Rorie of Iuka; her grandmother, Ruth Smith of Corinth. Visitation begins at 3 p.m. today at Coleman East.

ICE STORM OF '94

It was the Ice Storm of '94
Never had I seen a sight like this before
The rains fell and began to freeze
Then there came the sound of falling trees.

It is such a frightening sound
To hear the limbs come crashing down
The sound of popping all about
Then suddenly all the lights went out.

We lit the candles to give us light
While crashing sounds went on all night.
We had no water, no way to cook
And not enough light to read a book.

When morning came the cold winds blew
I checked my neighbors to see what I could do
Went to the store to get kerosene
On my way, Oh!  What a scene!

The road was blocked with trees fallen down
But I found a way to go around
Finally I saw a kerosene pump
And bought enough to get me over the hump.

I found out without a doubt
What it's like to do without
The things we take for granted every day
We should thank God each time we pray.

People seemed to all come together
Too bad it had to be because of weather
Improvising and hardships were quite a chore
Surviving the Ice Storm of '94.

Note:  Sorry the author's name was not with the article.  
But, I lived through it, and the writer expressed it superbly. 
Sounded like war.  On the 11th day, my electric power was back on. 
Acres of timber had to be harvested, because it was on the ground.

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