4A 14,2016 Hattiesburg American LOCAL STOCKS The following are closing prices for stocks of local interest listed on the New York Stock Exchange. NAME SALES (000s) LAST CHG Inc 200,929 41.36 AutoZone 2,022 803.00 BcpSouth 4,935 29.45 CBL Asc 16,344 11.75 Chevron 81,795 117.42 CocaCola 178,080 41.76 ConocoPhil 76,983 52.64 Disney 72,387 103.85 ExxonMbl 177,624 92.58 FordM 370,043 1 2.77 Gannett 10,707 10.02 GenElec 318,898 31.74 GenMotors 88,760 37.36 Haverty 1,138 24.05 Hess 62,506 65.14 IntPap 24,618 53.29 LaPac 8,447 20.75 Lowes 59,519 74.65 NorflkSo 16,780 109.83 NorthropG 14,342 231.56 Penney 130,650 9.87 PepsiCo 41,955 105.63 RegionsFn 215,937 14.29 RoyDShllA 43,000 54.29 SouthnCo 49,123 49.19 Tegna 21,2 05 22.19 Torchmark 3,704 73.48 WalMart 83,724 71.80 WalgBoots 32,603 87.73 WellsFargo 231,009 55.84 Wendys Co 27,418 13.96 WmsCos 62,078 30.40 The following are closing prices for stocks of local interest listed on the Nasdaq National Market. NAME SALES (000s) LAST CHG CitizHold 44 24.80 FstBcMiss 8 25.40 HancHld 42,311 42.75 SanderFm 3,95 1 89.97 SearsHldgs 7,185 11.40 Trustmk 4,830 35.85 NAME LAST CHG Dow Jones 19,911.21 NYSE 11,237.16 Nasdaq 5,463.83 500 2,271.72 Russell 2000 1,373.53 THE MARKETS RECORDS Mr. James Lavon Dearman, 50, of Lafayette, LA, formerly of Purvis, MS, died on December 11, 2016 in St. Martin, LA.
Mr. Dearman worked his entire career as a carpenter. He was preceded in death by his parents, Lavon and Geneva Dearman and his brother, David Dearman. Mr. Dearman is survived by his three children, Joseph Credeur (Rhodessa) of Crowley, LA, Glenn Dickinson, Jr.
of Duson, LA, and Laura Isadore (Larry) of Duson, LA; three sisters, Joy Martin (Jerry) of Dixie, MS, Judy Evans (Richard) of Shady Point, OK, and Lisa Stewart (Robert) of Purvis, MS; eight grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews. A private memorial service will be held December 16, 2016 in Lafayette, LA. James Lavon Dearman Purvis William F. Logan, 88, of Purvis, died December 12, 2016, at his home. Visitation will be Wednesday, December 14, 2016, at Moore Funeral Home in Hattiesburg from 1:30 p.m.
until the service at 3 p.m. Burial will follow in the Dixie Baptist Church Cemetery. Mr. Logan retired from Hess Refinery. He was a member of Dixie Baptist Church and served in the U.S.
Merchant Marines during World War II. Mr. Logan was preceded in death by his wife, Shirley R. Logan; one son, Gary W. Logan; one brother and two sisters.
He is survived by one daughter, Lisa Regan (William) of Purvis; two sons, Craig Logan (Sally) and Phil Logan (Lucy) both of Hattiesburg; eight grandchildren, Chris Logan (Tracy), Kyle Logan (Megan), Luke Logan, Phillip Kyle Logan, Will Regan (Randi), Chance Regan, Chelsea Regan and Christopher Regan; four great-grandchildren, Brady Logan, Conner Regan, Jackson Logan, and Brayden Ladner; and a daughter-in- law, Renee Ford of Hattiesburg. William F. Logan Purvis Sally Melinda Brown, 63, of Petal, died December 12, 2016, at Forrest General Hospital, after a lengthy battle with cancer. Services will be at 10 a.m., Thursday, December 15, 2016, at Moore Funeral Chapel in Hattiesburg, followed by burial in Highland Cemetery. Mrs.
Brown retired from Petal Elementary School and was a member of First Baptist Church in Runnelstown. She was preceded in death by her husband, David Brown and her parents, Wilmer and Allidee Kitchens. She is survived by one son, Ryan Brown (Alicia) of Petal; one daughter, Donna McKenzie (Eric) of Hattiesburg; one sister, Janice Keith (Howard) of Purvis; and five grandchildren, Hunter McKenzie, Nicholas McKenzie, Nevaeh McKenzie, Gabby Brown and Claire Brown. Visitation will be Wednesday from 5-7 p.m. at Moore Funeral Home.
Sally Melinda Brown Petal RICHTON 601-788-6000 Mr. James Ronald Mills Arrangements Incomplete MOSELLE 601-584-7913 Mr. Jack Hourguettes Sr. 10:00 a.m. Saturday Memorial Service Providence BEAUMONT 601-784-2241 Mrs.
Mary E. Byrd Parker 11:00 a.m. Thursday Jones and Son Chapel Arlington Cemetery Visit 9:30 a.m. until service www.jonesandsonfh.com On Monday, December 12, 2016, George Larue Bennett, 74 went home to be with our LORD and Savior after a lengthy illness. Mr.
Bennett was born June 27, 1942 in Sumrall. He graduated from Sumrall High School in 1964, was a member of First Baptist Church of Oloh and a retired Security Officer from Wesley Hospital. Mr. Bennett was an avid collector and restorer of vintage vehicles and a former member of the Real Steel Car Club of Purvis, Mississippi. He was well loved in the community for his caring nature and spirit of generosity.
He was preceded in death by his parents Charlie and Lizzie (Bounds) Bennett and one brother Alford Bennett. He is survived by his wife of forty-one years, Hazel Mixon Bennett, two daughters, Kim Higginbotham, Liz Maloney (Donald) all of Sumrall. One sister, Charlene B. Cavanaugh (Johnny) and a brother Edmond Bennett (Terry), a grandson David Maloney (Tiffany) a granddaughter Michelle Maloney, one great-grandson Nathaniel Maloney all of Sumrall and many nieces and nephews. Services will be held Thursday, December 15, 2016 at Hulett Winstead Funeral Home Sumrall Chapel.
Visitation will be begin at 12:00 noon with the funeral to follow at 2:00 pm. Interment will be in Oloh Cemetery. George Larue Bennett Sumrall, MS Mrs. Margaret B. Jones Sumrall, MS Services 10:00 AM Thursday Hulett-Winstead Sumrall Chapel Interment Jones Cemetery Mr.
George Larue Bennett Sumrall, MS Services 2:00 PM Thursday Hulett-Wistead Sumrall Chapel Interment Oloh Cemetery Mrs. Carolyn Sanford Brewer Petal, MS Services to be announced Mrs. Susan Cutrer Leakesville, MS Memorial services to be held at a later date See full obituaries on our website www.hulettwinsteadfuneralhome.com Hulett Winstead Funeral Home, Inc. 601-582-1571 205 Bay Street Mrs. Christeen Byrd Wiggins Services 11 a.m.
Wednesday Moore Wiggins Chapel Interment Pine Grove Cemetery Mrs. Dorothy Lee Hicks Hattiesburg Services 1:30 p.m. Wednesday Moore Hattiesburg Chapel Interment Highland Cemetery Mr. R.L. Keith Purvis Services 10 a.m.
Wednesday Moore Purvis Chapel Interment Coaltown Cemetery Mr. William F. Logan Purvis Services 3 p.m. Wednesday Moore Hattiesburg Chapel Interment Dixie Baptist Cemetery Mrs. Sally Melinda Brown Hattiesburg Services 10 a.m.
Thursday Moore Hattiesburg Chapel Interment Highland Cemetery Mrs. Roberta Jean Key Wiggins Services 11 a.m. Friday Moore Wiggins Chapel Mrs. Audrey Pittman Lee Hattiesburg Services 2 p.m. Friday Moore Hattiesburg Chapel Interment Highland Cemetery Mrs.
Sadie Burlene Harvison Wiggins Memorial Service at Later Date Mr. James Lavon Dearman Purvis Memorial Service at Later Date Mr. Joe Stianche, III Petal Arrangements Incomplete Mr. Ronnie Hussey Arrangements Incomplete See full obituaries on our website www.moorefuneralservices.com Hattiesburg Wiggins Petal Purvis (601) 544-2141 OBITUARIES Name Age Town Died Arrangements Bennett, George Larue 74 Sumrall 12-Dec Hulett-Winstead Brown, Sally Melinda 63 Petal 12-Dec Moore Funeral Home Dearman, James Lavon 50 Purvis 11-Dec Moore Funeral Service Logan, William F. 88 Purvis 12-Dec Moore Funeral Home Sullivan, Darrell 58 New Hebron 12-Dec Saulter Moore in Prentiss Additional information in display obituaries Obits appear in print and online at www.hattiesburgamerican.com/obituaries.
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For information on services please contact the funeral home listed. OBITUARIES lege report card shows that more than three-quarters of adults live in states with poor grades. means that too many American adults are deficient in financial knowledge and skills, which leads them to make uninformed and often poor decisions about their Pelletier said. Aformer finance executive, Pelletier says the challenge is educating the millions of Americans who misuse credit, save for a rainy day or for retirement, pay their bills on time or have abudget, or know how to invest or plan. must take the subject of personal finance seriously in high school, college and Pelletier says.
needs to be apriority, like math and reading. The first step is to gauge our financial illiteracy, and that is what this report does. Our hope is that the facts will motivate efforts to improve personal finance education across all Fitch said she will continue to promote financial education in schools through her public-private partnership, TEAM, or Education About Money, initiative. In two years, 48,000 students have participated, engaging in 163,000 learning hours, Fitch said, and their assessment demonstrates that they are increasing their financial awareness by 92 percent. TEAM partner, Mississippi Council on Economic Education, has trained 800 teachers in personal finance education, as well.
have also made financial learning modules available on my website and encouraged employers across the state to offer them to their employees as part of their personal development programs. As study shows, it is never too late to learn about managing your money. And, when parents model smart personal finance skills, their children learn it as Literacy Continued from Page 3A per student with additional funding for such needs as English Language Learner. Mississippi already applies a weight for students who are on reduced and free lunch or economically disadvantaged, but Sibilia thinks more weights should be considered. Polk said he is looking forward to hearing Ed- recommendations.
looking to hear going to be best for Mississippi students to help our education system move he said. many districts seem to spend inappropriate amounts on their administration and then the classroom is Smith and district officials headed in to a discussion with the EdBuild employees after the tour. is so Smith said. is a lot I understand. There have been issues with full funding (of MAEP).
is evident it is not working. We need to go back to the drawing Polk said he expected lawmakers would get down to business on school funding once the legislative session is underway in January. The Clarion Ledger contributed to this report. Funding Continued from Page 3A is to be Presley and the Stones perform at the festival. reasons were because of previous the report said.
stated that he believed Presley was pressured by the white More than 8,000 from across the U.S. attended the festival. The report complained about to 600 there, everything Charles Evers said Monday that Presley wanted to come and perform because King was performing. was crazy about B.B.,” he said. was always our headliner.
The (Medgar Evers Homecoming) Festival was his Evers said he and his brother, Medgar, fought for change because knew Mississippi would be the greatest state in the if that change took place. He believes that change has taken place. is one of the greatest states to live he said. He praised Henry ensuring that no discrimination endured in Mississippi. believed that and lived Five years ago, Muddy Waters became the first musician to join the Mississippi Hall of Fame.
Before that, musicians eligible for consideration. The board of trustees of the state Department of Archives and History elects members to the Mississippi Hall of Fame each five years. The release put out by the state Department of Archives and History put it this way: first woman elected lieutenant governor of Mississippi, a pioneering transplant surgeon, a civil rights leader and legislator, the of rock and and a successful journalist and rights advocate have been elected to the Mississippi Hall of Fame. contributions and accomplish- ments of these five Mississippians are astonishing, and a true testament to the character of the people of the said MDAH director Katie Blount. Hall of Fame is enriched by the addition of these men and Gandy was born in 1920 in Hattiesburg and attended the University of Southern Mississippi.
In 1943 she graduated from the University of Mississippi School of Law. Gandy was elected to the state Legislature in 1947 and went on to become the first woman to serve as assistant attorney general, commissioner of public welfare, state treasurer, commissioner of insurance and lieutenant governor. She ran unsuccessfully for governor twice. She died in 2007. William Rogers, director of the Stennis Center for Public Service in Starkville, nominated Gandy for the Hall of Fame calling her most significant trailblazer for women political leaders in Mississippi and a strong, effective leader for us Hardy was born in 1918 in Newala, Alabama.
He earned his medical degree in 1942 from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, then served in the Army Medical Corps during World War II. In 1955, Hardy became the founding chairman of surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. In 1963 he led the team that performed the first lung transplant. The following year Hardy and his team transplanted the heart of a chimpanzee into a dying man, predating the first human-to-human heart transplant by three years. Hardy authored 24 books and 466 papers, while also producing more than 200 medical films.
He retired in 1987 from UMMC and died in 2003. Dr. LouAnn Woodward, dean of the UMMC School of Medicine, called Hardy towering figure in the history of was also in many ways the father of professional surgery in Mississippi, training several generations of surgeons who worked in every corner of the she said. The MDAH news releases describes Henry as longest serving, most sus- tained leader for interracial politics and social change in Mississippi Henry was born in 1922 in Dublin. After serving in the Army, he earned his pharmaceutical degree from Xavier University and opened a pharmacy in Clarksdale.
In 1951 Henry helped found the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, which promoted a program of civil rights, voting rights and business ownership. He organized the Clarksdale branch of the NAACP, and in 1959 was elected the state president. He was a founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Council of Federated Organizations. In 1962, Henry served in the Mississippi House from 1982 until 1996. He died in 1997.
Presley, born in 1935 in Tupelo, developed a musical style that combined his influences of pop, country, gospel and a way that blurred and challenged social and racial according to the release. Presley released 17 chart-topping albums during his lifetime, starred in more than 30 Hollywood films, won multiple Grammys and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame. Elvis died at his Mem- phis home, Graceland, in 1977 at age 42. country to gospel to rock and roll, whatever the musical genre, one name Elvis says it said Donna Kaye Randle, a member of the board of trustees of the Elvis Presley Memorial Foundation. Born into slavery in Holly Springs in 1862, Wells went on to become one of the most outspoken and important civil rights advocates of the 19th century.
Wells attended Rust College in Holly Springs and became a teacher, first in north Mississippi and later in Tennessee. Wells purchased a stake in a small newspaper and began a public campaign against inequitable school funding, lynching and segregation, and supporting economic boycotts and rights. She eventually moved to New York City and then Chicago, where she continued to write exposes of lynchings in the South. In 1909, Wells helped form the NAACP. She died in 1931.
Wells is of the most overlooked historical figures of 19th century said Em Hall, member of Ida B. Wells Commemorative Art Committee, which nominated Wells for the Hall of Fame. Elvis Continued from Page 1A MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY Evelyn Gandy, James Hardy, Aaron Henry, Elvis Presley and Ida B. Wells have been elected to the Mississippi Hall of Fame..
