Greenwood Commonwealth, Greenwood Mississippi
Bobby Edwards Barlow May 16, 2001 Greenwood Commonwealth 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.
Used with permission of Tim Kalich, Editor of Greenwood Commonwealth |
