Services for Bobbye Edwards Barlow, 67, of Itta Bena, who died of heart failure Tuesday, May 15, 2001,
  at Greenwood Leflore Hospital, will be at 2.p.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church of Itta Bena.

  Mrs. Barlow,  a native of  Chester in  Choctaw County, was a homemaker, mother, and grandmother who
  lived in Itta Bena since she was 3 years old.

  She  graduated  from  Humphries  High School in  Itta  Bena and attended  Sunflower Junior  College in
  Moorhead, where she was a cheerleader.

  Mrs. Barlow operated Mine & Yours Antiques and Accents about 15 years. She was a member of the Itta
  Bena Women's Club and First Baptist Church of Itta Bena, where she was a member of the choir.

  Mrs. Barlow is survived by her  husband,  Raymond Barlow of Itta Bena;  one daughter,  Donna Diggs of 
  Tchula;  two  sons,  Mike  Barlow of  Laurle  and  Dennis  Barlow of Itta Bena;  two sisters,  Margie Nell
  Tanner of Gardengrove, Calif., and Johnnie Picard of  Lafayette, La.;  two brothers, William T. Edwards 
  of Cantonement, Fla., and L. Pittman Edwards of Cleveland, Miss.; and nine grandchildren.

  The Rev. George Meadows and the Rev. Higdon Herrington will officiate at the services.  Burial will be in
  Itta Bena Cemetery with Wilson and Knight Funeral Home in charge. 

  Visitation will be from 6 until 8 tonight at the funeral home.

  Memorials may be made to the Baptist Children's Village in Jackson.

  Pallbearers wil be William Raby, Jimmy Moore, George Saunders,  Vonzell Self, Richie  Fulgham, James
  Griffin, Phil Kelly and Ricky Williams.

  Honorary  pallbearers will be  Ralph Prestridge,  J. W. Mims, and  present and  past deacons of the First 
  Baptist Church of Itta Bena.

  Copied with permission of Tim Kalich, Editor of Greenwood Commonwealth