Betty B. Thompson

Published 5:00 am Thursday, April 17, 2008

Services for Betty B. Thompson, of Ruth, will be held at 2 p.m.on Sunday, April 20, at Brookhaven Funeral Home on Natchez Drivewith burial in Providence Baptist Church Cemetery in LawrenceCounty.

Visitation is Saturday from 5 until 9 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mrs. Thompson, 75, died April 15, 2008, at Lawrence CountyNursing Home. She was born in Cryel, Okla., on May 19, 1932, toArthur Buckalew and Lettie Slade Buckalew.

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She was retired from Packard Electric and had been a machineoperator with Stahl-Urban. She was a member of Ruth BaptistChurch.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Charles D.Thompson; her son, Phillip Thompson; her brother, James O.Buckalew; and her sister, Ruby Lynn.

Survivors are her sons, Wayne Thompson, of Ruth, David Thompson,of Bogue Chitto, and Carlos Thompson, of Plainsview, Texas; herdaughter, Judy Harrison, of Ruth; her sister, June Deaver, ofPurvis; her grandchildren, Patrick McCaffery, Chris McCaffery,Heather Dunaway, Kristi Frazier, Ronny Thompson, Brandi McCaffery,Nick Thompson and Dustin Thompson.