East Central High School Mississippi Alumni Obituaries

Kelly H Barker died on December 16 2025 at Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital in Stuart Florida. He was born in Mississippi County Missouri to Lonnie Eugene Barker and Clora W. Hopgood Barker and was raised on the Barker Family Home Place in the area known as Barkers Ridge. The farm shaped his l...

Sandra Jones a devoted Christian mother wife daughter and friend departed this life on January 13th 2026. Edith Sandra Smith was born on November 15th 1939 in Newton Mississippi to Emmett Vardaman Smith and Gertrude Ann Munn Smith. Sandra married Walter Allan Jones of Hickory Mississippi on December...

Bruce Allen Cater 70 of Decatur Mississippi passed away Sunday October 19 2025 at the MS Baptist Medical Center in Jackson Mississippi. He was born Friday July 8 1955 in Union Mississippi. Visitation will be held on Tuesday October 21 2025 from 600 p.m. until 800 p.m. at Newton County Funeral HomeNo...

Services celebrating the life of Jonathan Mark Thorne will begin at 1030 am on Friday October 24 2025 at Newton County Funeral Home South Chapel with Rev. William Savell and Rev. Charles Moore officiating. Burial will follow in the Pleasant Ridge Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery under the directio...

Marty Renoir Gaston the son of Suzanne J. Gaston was born on November 7 1991 in Starkville Mississippi. He is also the son of the late Jerry B. Whitcomb. Marty passed away on December 5 2025 at Baptist Memorial HospitalAttala due to a tragic auto accident. Marty was a 2010 graduate of Kosciusko High...

Carole Lynn Henry 87 of Quitman passed away Monday September 29 2025 at McClelland Compassionate Care in Meridian. She was born Thursday November 4 1937. Graveside services will be held on Wednesday October 1 2025 at 1030 am at Newton County Memorial Gardens with Bro. Bob Followell officiating. She ...