Rubye Smith Lofton

Published 11:22 am Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Funeral services for Rubye Smith Lofton of Bogue Chitto are 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013, at Calvary Baptist Church in Bogue Chitto. Visitation will be Tuesday from noon until 2 at Calvary Baptist Church. Interment will be in the Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery.

Mrs. Lofton, 86, passed away Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013, at Golden Living Center. She was born on Jan. 2, 1927, to Tom and Lou Mae Smith. She was the long time owner of Lofton’s Grocery and later retired as a nurse’s aid from Haven Hall Nursing Home. Mrs. Lofton was a member of Calvary Baptist Church.

She is preceded in death by her husband, J.T. Lofton; parents, Tom and Lou Mae Smith; brothers, Lamar Smith, O.D. Smith, and Charles Ray Smith.

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She is survived by her son, Jack Lofton and wife Diane Gambrell; daughter, Barbara Pepper and husband Tim; one sister, Gladys Smith Lofton; four grandchildren, Candis Leigh Lofton, Brandi Nicole Lofton, Will Timothy Pepper and wife Holli Adams, Sawyer Van Pepper, and one great-grandchild, Bessi Grace Pepper.

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