Henry P. “Pete” Carruth Jr.

Published 5:00 am Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Services for Henry P. “Pete” Carruth Jr., of Summit are 10 a.m.,Thursday, May 22, at Mars Hill Baptist Church with burial in thechurch cemetery.

Visitation is today from 5-8 p.m., at Catchings Funeral Home inMcComb, and Thursday from 9-10 a.m., at the church.

Mr. Carruth, 79, died May 20, 2003, at Southwest MississippiRegional Medical Center in McComb. He was born in McComb on Nov.30, 1923, to Henry P. Carruth Sr., and Eugenia Hewitt Carruth.

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He was a retired painter for Illinois Central Railroad with 37years service. He was a World War II Army and Air Force veteran,serving in the Pacific in Papua New Guinea, The Phillipines andJapan. He was a member of Mars Hill Baptist Church, where he was adeacon, a Sunday school superintendent, served on the building andgrounds committee and the cemetery committee, and was instrumentalin the construction of the new fellowship hall. He was a member ofJohn A. Quitman Masonic Lodge in the Auburn community, where he wasa past Master.

Preceding him in death were his parents; a brother, NevilleCarruth; and a grandson, Warren Dykes.

Survivors are his wife of 55 years, Lillye Fae Boyd Carruth ofSummit; his son, Randy Carruth of Summit; his daughter, DianneCarruth of Summit; his brother, Melroy Carruth of Jackson; hissister, Evelyn Brown of Bogue Chitto; and three grandchildren andsix great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be sent to Mars Hill Baptist Church, 6145 NorthGreensburg Road, Summit, MS 39666.