Memorial service for Mr. Harmon Shirley will be at 3 p.m., Saturday, September 19, 2020, at

Central Baptist Church with visitation beginning at 2 p.m. until the time of service.

Mr. Harmon Shirley, 87, ended his adventure here on earth, September 11, 2020. On March 26, 1933,

Mr. Harmon began this journey, born to the late Jesse Harmon Shirley and Nora Dunnam Shirley.

He served his country in the United States Army during the Korean War. After returning home he

began his career and was a local business owner for 47 years. In his spare time, he enjoyed the great outdoors.

Hunting, fishing and spending time with his family were his favorite pastimes.

Any preacher worth his salt will tell you that a church is not about the physical building, but the people inside

and how they go forth in this world. Harmon did his worshipping in the biggest church of them all, God's great outdoors.

He would bring that outdoor fellowship to everyone he met, family, friends and strangers. 

He is preceded in death by his parents and siblings Elsie Shirley Vest, Vernon Shirley,

Inez Shirley Stephens and Bonnie Jean Shirley.

Those who remain to keep his memory alive are his wife, Virginia H. "Ginny" Shirley; sons,

Michael Shirley of Hermanville, MS, Dean Shirley and wife, Rhoda of Wesson, MS; daughter,

Virginia L. "Ginger" Shirley, of Cambridge, MA; brother, James Shirley of Baton Rouge, LA; sisters,

Vernice Cook of Brookhaven, MS, Catherine Middleton of Terry, MS, and Delores Bennett of

Denham Springs, LA. He is also survived by four grandchildren, Hunter Shirley, Ryan Shirley,

Rebekah Shirley, and Elizabeth Shirley.

In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Catch-A-Dream Foundation, 2485 Ennis Road, Starkville, MS 39759

A Graveside service will be held for Mrs. Charlene Clark Reid on Monday, September 14, 2020, at 12:00 noon at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery with a visitation from 10:00am-11:00am at Riverwood Family.

Charlene Clark Reid, 79, of Slidell, formally of Bogue Chitto, passed from this life on September 13, 2020, at St. Tammany Hospital. She was born on April 20, 1941, to Charles Leland Clark and Nelda Lorraine Price Clark.

Mrs. Reid loved painting, decorating and gardening and was a member of First Baptist Church of Slidell, LA.

Preceding her in death was her husband, James D. Reid; parents, Charles and Nelda Clark; sisters, Marilyn Clark Brown and Lorraine Thomas and brother, Charles Clark.

Those left to cherish her memory are her sons, Rev. James L. Reid, wife Julie Gumm Reid and Dr. Joseph D. Reid, wife Christine S. Reid; brothers, Ferris Clark, Jamie Clark and Ronnie Clark. She is also survived by five grandchildren, Jordan Elizabeth Reid, Spencer James Reid, Samuel Moore Reid, Charles Henry Reid and William Harrison Reid.

Dorothy Helen Dillard Cannon (known as Dott Cannon or “Mima”) completed her life’s journey of almost 95 years on the afternoon of September 9, 2020.

She made her transition gracefully surrounded by the love of her family and friends. Dott expressed her pure, magnetic, accepting,

and generous nature in her many relationships of all kinds and ages.

Dott Cannon was born on September 25, 1925, to Erin and Evie Dillard in Tupelo, where she grew up. She attended Ole Miss at 16 years old from 1942-1944

where she was a member of the Delta Gamma Fraternity, and she went to Yale for graduate studies in nursing from 1944-1947.

Dott served in the military as a nurse cadet in 1944, and later got a job at the Brookhaven Health Department, where she met her husband, Fred Cannon.

Dott married Fred on May 16, 1948, and they shared 45 years together. Dott raised five children and contributed to the family business along

with many social and civic organizations. In 1976, she took on responsibility for Dillard Enterprises as co-president and later became the sole owner and president.

Dott’s role in her community was a life-long commitment and dedication to volunteerism. She was a member of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer,

she participated in the King’s Daughter’s and Son’s Willing Hearts Circle and Junior Auxiliary, and she served on the

Mississippi State Board of Health and the Mississippi School of the Arts Foundation Board. She enjoyed the Garden Club, the Brookhaven Camellia Society,

her Bridge Club for over 65 years, her Luncheon Club, and the Climbers Club.

Dott Cannon was always up for an adventure and she traveled with family and her “Country Club” girl-friend group through

the US, Europe, Mexico, and Central America, China and Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. She was quick to turn a stranger

into a friend with her sincere curiosity and compassion.

Dott will be remembered for her kind and an open heart—she made introductions with her hand over her heart expressing her love,

“This is my dear, dear friend”.

Everyone who knew Dott Cannon was touched by her warm and beaming spirit. She made all of us certain that we were the most special to her.

Dott was a rare gem, a soaring comet, a sanctuary of loving enthusiasm that will be sorely missed by many.

Dott Cannon was survived by her children: Becky Cannon and her partner, Leonard Jacobs, David Cannon and his wife, Lea Ann Cannon,

the late William Cannon’s partner, Janie Reeves, and Frederick Cannon and his wife, Kaye Cannon; She was also survived by

her grand- and great-grandchildren Emi Kubota, Mari Kubota, Zo Kubota-Johnson, Naomi Walsh Kubota, Blake Cannon, Cameron Cannon,

Alec Cannon, AJ (Austin) Cannon, Claire Cannon, KK (Katelyn) Cannon, Hazel Cannon, Violet Cannon, Carla Wallace, Kristin Hatten,

Casey Wallace, Carly Beth Wallace, Haven Hatten, Anna Ballard, and Leigh Michael Cannon. “Mima” was preceded in death by her parents,

Erin and Evie Dillard, her husband, Fred Cannon, her brother, Dr. Erin Dillard, her sons, Michael Cannon, and William Cannon.

The family wishes to thank Jewelene Buie, Sandra Nelson, Joyce Brown, and the staff of Encompass Health Hospice

for their loving support and help through Dott’s transition time.

There will be a private family service at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer on Saturday, September 12, 2020, at 10:30 am,

available through their website www.redeemerbrookhaven.com. Andrew McLarty will officiate the service.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations to the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer.

The family has created a virtual guest book for you to visit and leave comments and encouragement for the family.

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A public visitation for Barbara Gavin Walker will be Friday, September 25, 2020, from 4 pm-7 pm at

Riverwood Family Funeral Service in Brookhaven, Mississippi.

A private funeral mass (due to social distancing restrictions) will be held Saturday, September 26, 2020,

at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Brookhaven, Mississippi, with burial at St Francis Catholic Cemetery.

Riverwood Family Funeral Service in Brookhaven, MS is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Walker, 77, passed away Saturday, August 22, 2020, surrounded by family and friends at her home in Frisco, TX.

She was born May 25, 1943, in Columbia, Tennessee, to Dr. William M. Gavin II and Mary Lucia Hutchinson Gavin.

She graduated from St. Agnes Academy for girls in 1961, Siena College in 1963, and St. Joseph’s School of Nursing in 1965. In 1965

she married her high school sweetheart, Louis N. Walker, Jr. Married for 53 years, they made Brookhaven their home in 1975

and resided in the area for over 40 years. Barbara loved Brookhaven and its community dearly. She worked as a dialysis nurse for more than 40 decades.

At the end of her career in 2008, she was an Area Regional Manager for multiple dialysis clinics in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas.

Barbara received numerous awards over her time as a nurse, including the Kidney Care Award for nursing. She served on many

national committees for dialysis. She was also one of the first two nurses in Memphis to be trained on the artificial kidney machine and

was in attendance for the first kidney transplant in the late 1960s.

Preceding her in death were parents; her brother, Bill Gavin AOCM, USN, Ret., her sister Mary Lucia “Patsy” Barnes, and her husband Louis N. Walker Jr.

She is survived by daughter Robin Walker, of Frisco, TX; daughter Peggy Walker Rushing and husband Will, of Frisco, TX; brother Joseph Gavin

and wife Nancy, of North Ridgeville, OH; sister in law Jane Gavin, of Honolulu, HI; sister in law Patricia Taylor and husband Larry, of Parsons, TN;

sister in law Cheri Hess Brooks and husband Eugene of Brookhaven; two grandchildren, Ellie and Gavin Rushing, of Frisco, TX; and 11 nieces and nephews.