Services are Saturday for Calhoun

Published 6:00 am Friday, November 24, 2006

Services for former Lincoln County Chancery Clerk Carrol DevonCalhoun, of Brookhaven, are 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 25, atRiverwood Family Funeral Service with burial in Pleasant GroveMethodist Church Cemetery.

Visitation is today from 5 until 9 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mr. Calhoun, 75, died Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2006, at hisresidence. He was born on June 15, 1931, to Earl Calhoun and MaryLuticia Bardwell Calhoun.

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He was a graduate of Whitworth College and a U.S. Air Forceveteran of the Korean Conflict.

Besides serving as Chancery Clerk from 1968 until 1979, he wasthe owner of C & M Milling Co. He was also the former managerof Brookhaven Production Credit and Equitable Insurance Co. He wasa member of the Mississippi Cattlemen’s Association and the LincolnCounty Cattlemen’s Association, from which he received the 2001Lifetime Achievement Award. He was a member of Divide MethodistProtestant Church.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his former wife, JaniceSmith Calhoun; his wife, Beth Calhoun; his brothers, WilliamCalhoun and Robert Calhoun; and his brothers-in-law, Jolly Sistrunkand Duvall Cothern.

Survivors are his wife, Sharon Evans Calhoun; his sons, CareyCalhoun and wife Susan, of Brookhaven, and Pate Calhoun and wifeAmanda, of Diamondhead; his daughters, Tanya Camp and husband Doug,of Starkville, and Kelly Allen and husband Ricky, of Brookhaven;his brother, James Calhoun and wife Maude; his sisters, YzelleCothern, Doris Holmes and husband Norman; his sister-in-law, EdnaCalhoun; and his six grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to Deaconess Hospice or the Alzheimer’sAssociation.