Michael Vernon Herring
Published 3:21 am Sunday, January 23, 2011
Funeral services for Michael Vernon Herring, of Brookhaven, are11 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 24, at Riverwood Family Funeral ServiceChapel, with burial in Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery.
Visitation is Sunday from 5 until 9 p.m. at the funeral home.
Mr. Herring, 50, died Jan. 20, 2011, in Lincoln County. He was bornin Vicksburg on Sept. 25, 1960.
He was a retired paramedic and a member of Macedonia BaptistChurch. He was a graduate of West Lincoln School and a graduate ofCopiah-Lincoln Community College as an EMT-P. He was along-standing member of the Loyd Star Volunteer Fire Department asa firefighter and first responder. He was a Red Cross volunteer anda HAM radio operator with the Southwest Mississippi Amateur RadioClub.
Preceding him in death was his father, Vernon Herring; his maternalgrandparents, Francis and Tom Winborne; his paternal grandparents,Lois and Bert Herring; his nephew, Justin Barksdale; and hisgrandmother-in-law, Florene “Nana” Smith.
Survivors are his wife, Maria Herring, of Brookhaven; his mother,Yvonne Winborne Herring, of Brookhaven; his sons, Robby Herring, ofNashville, Tenn., and Chris Herring, Michael Herring and BradleyRogers, all of Brookhaven; his sisters, Cheryl Aucoin and husband,Troy, of Tylertown, and Theresa Cooper and Brenda Watts andhusband, Chance, all of Brookhaven; his grandchildren, 2-year-oldGage Herring and 5-year-old Kali Herring; his mother-in-law andfather-in-law, Pat and Paul Renfro, of Brookhaven; hisgrandfather-in-law, Allen “Cotten” Smith and wife, Iris, ofBrookhaven; his brother-in-law, Charles Renfro and wife, Melanie,of Clinton; and numerous nieces and nephews.
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