Geraldine Reeves Dunaway

Published 6:48 pm Thursday, October 31, 2019

Graveside services for Mrs. Geraldine Reeves Dunaway will be on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, at Bogue Chitto Baptist Church at Carter’s Creek Cemetery in Pricedale, Mississippi, at 1:30 p.m. Bro. Donnie Coker will officiate the services.

Mrs. Dunaway, 89, of Carter’s Creek, Mississippi, passed peacefully into the arms of Jesus on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, at her residence in the same room in which she was born. She was born on Feb. 8, 1930, in Carter’s Creek, Mississippi, to Arie and Henry Reeves. She enjoyed working in her flower beds, activities in her church and sitting on her front porch.  Her love was shown to all, especially her beloved pets Drifter and Dixie. 

Preceding her in death were her parents; husband, Charles Edwin Dunaway; twin sister, Imogene Turner; and brothers, Henry Lloyd Reeves, Boyd Reeves and Carl Reeves.

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Survivors are her daughter, Deborah Dunaway Coker and husband Donnie; son, Eddie Dunaway and Pam; grandchildren, Gerri Anne Williams and husband Casey, Luke Dunaway and wife Lindsey; her sisters, Sandra Roberts and husband Carroll, and Gussie Quabach and many family and friends.

The family would like to say a special “thank you” to caregivers Sharon Matthews, Janice Dillon and to Hospice Compassus for their love and care.

Pallbearers are Robbie McCullough, Mitch Morgan, Luke Morgan, Luke Dunaway, Julius Boyd and William Smith.   

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Mrs. Geraldine’s name to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105. 

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