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State • a3 SportS• b1 black wedding working hard Governor calls church block ‘unfortunate’ St. Al builds depth in preseason fridaY, auguSt 3, 2012 • 50¢ www.vickSburgpoSt.com everY daY Since 1883 indeX Business .......... A6 Classifieds ....... B6 Comics ............. B4 Puzzles ............. B5 Dear Abby ...... B5 Editorial ........... A4 People/TV ....... B5 contact uS Call us Advertising ...601-636-4545 Classifieds ...... 601-636-SELL Circulation ..... 601-636-4545 News................ 601-636-4545 E-mail us See A2 for e-mail addresses 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain. 1914: Germany declares war on France at the onset of World War I. 1936: Jesse Owens of the United States wins the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics as he takes the 100-meter sprint. 1943: Gen. George S. Patton slaps a private at an army hospital in Sicily, accusing him of cowardice. weather Tonight: cloudy; lows in the 70s Saturday: showers; highs in the 90s Mississippi River: 1.5 feet Rose: 0.4 foot Flood stage: 43 feet A7 online www.vicksburgpost.com VOLUME 130 NUMBER 216 2 SECTIONS deathS • Ida Mae Page Scott • Rose Marie Shelby • Rosie Lee Tillman A7 Gen. George S. Patton todaY in hiStorY No death penalty for inmates charged in Vicksburg slaying By Holbrook Mohr The Associated Press JACKSON — Prosecu- tors have decided not to seek the death penalty for two inmates charged with killing an Ohio business- man in Vicksburg after they escaped from a prison work program in Louisiana. Sheila Wilbanks, a spokes- woman for the U.S. Attor- ney’s office in Jackson, said the Justice Department decided against seeking the death penalty for Ricky Wedgeworth and Darian “Drake” Pierce. She had no other comment. Wedgeworth and Pierce are charged with kidnap- ping David Cupps from a hotel in Vicksburg, after escaping from the Louisi- ana State Police compound in Baton Rouge on March 4, 2011. Investigators said Cupps, a 53-year-old man from Sun- bury, Ohio, was attacked for his rental car and beaten and strangled. His body was dumped in Bessemer, Ala. Cupps was in Mississippi to inspect the Grand Gulf nuclear power plant south of Vicksburg. The inmates were caught March 14, 2011, after crash- ing a pickup in Memphis, Tenn. Police said that before their capture, the men tied up a county park worker and stole a government parks department truck from Madison County, Tenn. Wedgeworth and Pierce were indicted on multi- ple charges in U.S. District Court in Jackson. They could have faced the death penalty for two counts — kidnapping resulting in death and carjacking result- ing in death. They’re also charged with conspiracy and transporting a stolen vehicle. They have pleaded DiamondJacks casinos have $125M price tag By Danny Barrett Jr. [email protected] Debts to a contract housecleaning service and gaming equipment-makers are among DiamondJacks Casino’s biggest creditors in its parent company’s bank- ruptcy filing, a process top corporate and local execu- tives say is the best way to keep the place open. Legends Gaming filed for Chapter 11 in U.S. Bank- ruptcy Court in Shreveport Tuesday. The filing involves transfer of DiamondJacks casinos, hotels and ancillary buildings in Vicksburg and Bossier City to Oklahoma- based Global Gaming Solu- tions LLC, which is owned by the Chickasaw Nation. The purchase price of all Legends’ assets and liabili- ties is $125 million, said Kym Koch, a spokeswoman for Global. The deal hinges on regulatory approvals in Louisiana and Mississippi. Tops among more than $412,000 in unsecured claims listed in court papers are FSS-The Service Compa- nies, a Miami-based clean- ing service hired often by the gaming industry, owed $50,084.86, and Chicago- based equipment-maker IGT, owed $49,452.99. The list also includes Bancorp- South, AT&T and a photog- raphy business in Tallulah. All 339 or so jobs at the Vicksburg casino are safe, officials of both Legends and Global contend. “(The transition) should be pretty transparent,” said Felicia Gavin, executive vice president and general man- ager of DiamondJacks in Vicksburg, at 3990 Washing- See Casino, Page A8. See Inmates, Page A8. ‘Business as usual’ after Claiborne hospital takeover By Pamela Hitchins [email protected] Business as usual should continue at Port Gibson’s local hospital — now known as Claiborne County Hospital — following its takeover last week by the Board of Super- visors after nearly two years of not receiving lease pay- ments, the county adminis- trator said Thursday. Employees can expect paychecks today and the doors of the former Patients’ Choice Hospital are open to those needing medical care, County Administrator James Johnson said. Claiborne County super- visors voted July 25 to take back the facility from Patient’s Choice, managed by Tupelo-based Rural Health- care Developers Inc., which had leased the facility since October 2008. RHC had been in arrears in their payments since August, 2010, Johnson said. Jefferson County Hospital CEO Jerry Kennedy has been retained to act as administra- tive consultant, Johnson said. “The county, Rural Health- care Development and Jerry Kennedy are working to make this transition as seam- less as possible and provide care to the patients at the hospital,” said Johnson. About $869,000 is owed to the county, Johnson said. Claiborne County’s Chan- cery Clerk Gloria Dotson had See Hospital, Page A7. Don t stop believing! BRENDEN NEVILLE•The Vicksburg PosT Swinford: District now ‘Successful’ By Pamela Hitchins [email protected] “Successful” will be the word for Vicksburg Warren School District when 2012 test scores are released later this month, Superintendent Dr. Elizabeth Swinford told a rollicking, raucous, cow-bell-ringing crowd of teachers and administrators meet- ing Thursday at the district’s annual convocation to jump-start the school year. Swinford capped the celebration at the Vicksburg City Auditorium with the news that, based on this year’s test scores, which have not officially been released by the Mississippi Department of Education, the district has earned the Successful label. “When I came to the VWSD we had the label of At Risk of Failing. We are no longer At Risk of Failing, we are a Successful district. We did it in just two years,” Swinford said to loud cheers. “Next year we are going to meet here one more time and cel- ebrate it again.” Since 2009, the state education department has ranked schools, Warren Central Intermediate assistant principal Morgan Gates, left, principal Tonya Magee and teacher Julia Hood, cheer on their school during the Vicksburg Warren School District Convocation ceremony Thursday afternoon at the Vicksburg Auditorium. Vicksburg Junior High teachers Tonya Drake, middle, and Kimberly Vaughn, right, cheer for their school. Rating upgrade gives school district’s faculty something to cheer about See VWSD, Page A7. Darian “Drake” Pierce Ricky Wedgeworth Bankruptcy filings reveal more than $412,000 in claims

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Page 1: Dont stop believing

State • a3 SportS• b1

black wedding working hardGovernor calls church block ‘unfortunate’ St. Al builds depth in preseason

f r i d a Y, a u g u S t 3, 2012 • 5 0 ¢ w w w. v i c k S b u r g p o S t. c o m e v e r Y d a Y S i n c e 1883

indeXBusiness ..........A6Classifieds .......B6 Comics .............B4Puzzles .............B5Dear Abby ......B5Editorial ...........A4People/TV .......B5

contact uSCall us

Advertising ...601-636-4545Classifieds ...... 601-636-SELLCirculation .....601-636-4545News................601-636-4545

E-mail usSee A2 for e-mail addresses

1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain.1914: Germany declares war on France at the onset of World War I.1936: Jesse Owens of the United States wins the first of his four gold

medals at the Berlin Olympics as he takes the 100-meter sprint.1943: Gen. George S. Patton slaps a private at an army hospital in Sicily, accusing him of cowardice.

weatherTonight:

cloudy; lows in the 70sSaturday:

showers; highs in the 90sMississippi River:

1.5 feetRose: 0.4 foot

Flood stage: 43 feetA7

onlinewww.vicksburgpost.com

VOLUME 130NUMBER 2162 SECTIONS

deathS• Ida Mae Page Scott• Rose Marie Shelby• Rosie Lee Tillman

A7

Gen. GeorgeS. Patton

todaY in hiStorY

No death penaltyfor inmates chargedin Vicksburg slayingBy Holbrook MohrThe Associated Press

JACKSON — Prosecu-tors have decided not to seek the death penalty for two inmates charged with killing an Ohio business-man in Vicksburg after they escaped from a prison work program in Louisiana.

Sheila Wilbanks, a spokes-woman for the U.S. Attor-ney’s office in Jackson, said the Justice Department decided against seeking the death penalty for Ricky Wedgeworth and Darian “Drake” Pierce. She had no other comment.

Wedgeworth and Pierce are charged with kidnap-ping David Cupps from a hotel in Vicksburg, after escaping from the Louisi-ana State Police compound in Baton Rouge on March 4, 2011.

Investigators said Cupps, a 53-year-old man from Sun-bury, Ohio, was attacked for

his rental car and beaten and strangled. His body was dumped in Bessemer, Ala. Cupps was in Mississippi to inspect the Grand Gulf nuclear power plant south of Vicksburg.

The inmates were caught March 14, 2011, after crash-ing a pickup in Memphis, Tenn. Police said that before their capture, the men tied up a county park worker and stole a government parks department truck from Madison County, Tenn.

Wedgeworth and Pierce were indicted on multi-ple charges in U.S. District Court in Jackson. They could have faced the death penalty for two counts — kidnapping resulting in death and carjacking result-ing in death. They’re also charged with conspiracy and transporting a stolen vehicle. They have pleaded

DiamondJacks casinoshave $125M price tag

By Danny Barrett [email protected]

Debts to a contract housecleaning service and gaming equipment-makers are among DiamondJacks Casino’s biggest creditors in its parent company’s bank-ruptcy filing, a process top corporate and local execu-tives say is the best way to keep the place open.

Legends Gaming filed for Chapter 11 in U.S. Bank-ruptcy Court in Shreveport Tuesday. The filing involves transfer of DiamondJacks casinos, hotels and ancillary buildings in Vicksburg and Bossier City to Oklahoma-based Global Gaming Solu-tions LLC, which is owned by the Chickasaw Nation.

The purchase price of all Legends’ assets and liabili-ties is $125 million, said Kym Koch, a spokeswoman

for Global. The deal hinges on regulatory approvals in Louisiana and Mississippi.

Tops among more than $412,000 in unsecured claims listed in court papers are FSS-The Service Compa-nies, a Miami-based clean-ing service hired often by the gaming industry, owed $50,084.86, and Chicago-based equipment-maker IGT, owed $49,452.99. The list also includes Bancorp-South, AT&T and a photog-raphy business in Tallulah.

All 339 or so jobs at the Vicksburg casino are safe, officials of both Legends and Global contend.

“(The transition) should be pretty transparent,” said Felicia Gavin, executive vice president and general man-ager of DiamondJacks in Vicksburg, at 3990 Washing-

See Casino, Page A8.

See Inmates, Page A8.

‘Business as usual’ after Claiborne hospital takeoverBy Pamela [email protected]

Business as usual should continue at Port Gibson’s local hospital — now known as Claiborne County Hospital — following its takeover last week by the Board of Super-visors after nearly two years of not receiving lease pay-ments, the county adminis-

trator said Thursday.Employees can expect

paychecks today and the doors of the former Patients’ Choice Hospital are open to those needing medical care, County Administrator James Johnson said.

Claiborne County super-visors voted July 25 to take back the facility from Patient’s Choice, managed by

Tupelo-based Rural Health-care Developers Inc., which had leased the facility since October 2008. RHC had been in arrears in their payments since August, 2010, Johnson said.

Jefferson County Hospital CEO Jerry Kennedy has been retained to act as administra-tive consultant, Johnson said.

“The county, Rural Health-

care Development and Jerry Kennedy are working to make this transition as seam-less as possible and provide care to the patients at the hospital,” said Johnson.

About $869,000 is owed to the county, Johnson said.

Claiborne County’s Chan-cery Clerk Gloria Dotson had

See Hospital, Page A7.

Don ’t stop

believing!

Brenden neville•The Vicksburg PosT

Swinford: District now ‘Successful’

By Pamela [email protected]

“Successful” will be the word for Vicksburg Warren School District when 2012 test scores are released later this month, Superintendent Dr. Elizabeth Swinford told a rollicking, raucous, cow-bell-ringing crowd of teachers and administrators meet-ing Thursday at the district’s annual convocation to jump-start the school year.

Swinford capped the celebration at the Vicksburg City Auditorium with the news that, based on this year’s test scores, which have not officially been released by the Mississippi Department of Education, the district has earned the Successful label.

“When I came to the VWSD we had the label of At Risk of Failing. We are no longer At Risk of Failing, we are a Successful district. We did it

in just two years,” Swinford said to loud cheers. “Next year we are going to meet here one more time and cel-ebrate it again.”

Since 2009, the state education department has ranked schools,

Warren Central Intermediate assistant principal Morgan Gates, left, principal Tonya Magee and teacher Julia Hood, cheer on their school during the Vicksburg Warren School District Convocation ceremony Thursday afternoon at the Vicksburg Auditorium.

Vicksburg Junior High teachers Tonya Drake, middle, and Kimberly Vaughn, right, cheer for their school.

Rating upgrade givesschool district’s facultysomething to cheer about

See VWSD, Page A7.

Darian “Drake” Pierce Ricky Wedgeworth

Bankruptcy filings reveal more than $412,000 in claims

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The Vicksburg Post Friday, August 3, 2012 A7

TONIGHT

Partly cloudy tonight, lows in the mid-70s; mostly sun-ny Saturday with a chance

of showers, highs in the 90s

74°

PRECISION FORECASTBY CHIEF METEOROLOGIST

BARBIE BASSETTSATuRdAy

96°

WEATHERThis weather package is compiled from historical records and information

provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the

City of Vicksburg and The Associated Press.

LOCAL FORECASTsaturday-sundayMostly cloudy, showers

and thunderstorms likely; highs in the 90s, lows in

the 70s

STATE FORECASTtOnIGHt

Partly cloudy; lows in the mid-70s

saturday-sundayMostly cloudy, showers

and thunderstorms likely; highs in the 90s, lows in

the 70s

ALmAnACHIGHs and LOws

High/past 24 hours............. 91ºLow/past 24 hours .............. 80ºAverage temperature ........ 86ºNormal this date .................. 81ºRecord low .............63º in 1920Record high ........ 100º in 2011

raInfaLLRecorded at the

Vicksburg Water PlantPast 24 hours ................0.0 inchThis month ............... 0.0 inchesTotal/year ............. 35.76 inchesNormal/month .....0.30 inchesNormal/year ....... 33.74 inches

sOLunar tabLeMost active times for fish

and wildlife Saturday:A.M. Active ........................... 7:25A.M. Most active ................ 1:13P.M. Active ............................ 7:48P.M. Most active ................. 1:36

sunrIse/sunsetSunset today ....................... 7:58Sunset tomorrow .............. 7:58Sunrise tomorrow ............. 6:19

RIVER DATAstaGes

Mississippi Riverat Vicksburg

Current: 1.5 | Change: +0.4Flood: 43 feet

Yazoo River at GreenwoodCurrent: 8.7 | Change: -0.1

Flood: 35 feetYazoo River at Yazoo City

Current: 5.2 | Change: +0.2Flood: 29 feet

Yazoo River at BelzoniCurrent: 5.4 | Change: -0.1

Flood: 34 feetBig Black River at West

Current: 1.8 | Change: -0.1Flood: 12 feet

Big Black River at BovinaCurrent: 6.6 | Change: NC

Flood: 28 feet

steeLe bayOuLand ...................................69.0River ...................................49.0

mISSISSIPPI RIVER FORECAST

Cairo, Ill.Saturday ...................................9.6Sunday ......................................9.1Monday ....................................8.9

MemphisSaturday ..................................-4.8Sunday .....................................-5.8Monday ...................................-7.3

GreenvilleSaturday ................................ 11.3Sunday ................................... 12.0Monday ................................. 11.3

VicksburgSaturday ...................................2.6Sunday ......................................3.7Monday ....................................4.4

VwsdContinued from Page A1.

HospitalContinued from Page A1.

based on a numerical score calculated from test results plus incremental improve-ment year-to-year, with seven descriptors: Star, High Performing, Successful, Aca-demic Watch, Low Perform-ing, At Risk of Failing and Failing.

This year the department will use the five common letter grades, A through F. VWSD’s composite score places it in the former Suc-cessful range and earns a C letter grade.

The theme for this year’s convocation was Don’t Stop Believing. Teachers and prin-cipals gathered school by school, decked out in green, red, yellow, orange and other matching T-shirts, waving signs, beating thundersticks, blasting air horns and yelling school spirit cheers.

“What a year this is going to be,” Swinford told them. “If we keep our energy levels up like this our kids are going to rock and our test scores are going to keep going up and up.”

The VWSD was rated At Risk of Failing in 2010, and moved up last year to Aca-demic Watch. Swinford and other speakers encouraged the faculty to continue to aim for higher levels of student achievement and to be united within their schools and as a district.

“We succeed together and fail together as a team,” said Bryan Pratt, president of the VWSD Board of Trust-ees. “Some of our teammates might need support and encouragement. Speaking from the Board of Trustees, we all know that we are on a long journey, and we are so proud of each and every one of you.”

Keynote speaker Dr. James Aaron Bradford Cook, founder of JABC Educational Services Group and a minis-ter, retired U.S. Army Lieu-tenant Colonel and member of the Board of Trustees of Chamberlain-Hunt Academy in Port Gibson, among other

achievements, reminded all of the important role of edu-cators — everyone connected with the schools — in today’s society.

“For you to move up, for you to improve on this year, everybody needs to get engaged,” said Cook, naming bus drivers, custodians and cafeteria workers along with teachers and parents.

“You are doing a fantastic job, but don’t stop believing that there’s not more sky up there,” Cook said. “We can’t afford to lose a single child. Work together. Never accept mediocrity. Pull, drag, what-ever it takes. Get it out of them.”

In 2010, the VWSD had four schools labeled At Risk of Failing, four Academic Watch, two Successful and two High Performing, Swin-ford said.

Though not all schools

showed improvement, this year’s results will have no schools rated At Risk of Fail-ing or Low Performing. Five will be Academic Watch, five Successful and two High Per-forming, she said.

The two schools that made the highest gains were Vicks-burg Junior High School and Warren Central Interme-diate, two schools that had been placed in At-Risk status by state Department of Edu-cation and were required to implement formal school improvement plans.

Official test results and school ratings will be released at the end of August, a state education department spokesman said last week.

“We’re just excited about their gains and look forward to the great things they’re going to do next year,” Pratt said.

sent a number of letters to RHC chief Ray Shoemaker requesting payment, said Johnson. Not receiving pay-ment, supervisors voted in May to terminate the lease agreement, but until last week had not filed injunc-tions or eviction notices, he said.

In addition to retaining Kennedy, board actions last week included taking out property insurance and obtaining a restraining order against RHC.

Sheriff Marvin Lucas said his deputies assisted with making sure computers and

other equipment were not removed from the building.

Going forward, all oper-ations at the facility will become the county’s respon-sibility for the time being.

“The current pay period is expected to be the respon-sibility of Rural Healthcare Developers,” Johnson said, estimating staffing levels at about 100 full-time-equiv-alent positions. “With the county taking it forward, the assumption is the county is going to look at developing a plan of action, with the assis-tance of a consultant, to pay them.”

The hospital’s license has not yet been transferred, and during what is expected to be a two-week transition, RHD staff is continuing to provide some assistance, Johnson said.

“They are cooperating to an extent,” he said. “They are also making arrangements to transfer out of the hospital.”

In addition to the money owed Claiborne County, RHD chief Ray Shoemaker was found guilty March 2 in U.S. District Court in Oxford of 10 counts related to kick-backs and bribery while an executive at Tri-Lakes Medi-

cal Center in Batesville and embezzling $250,000 from the hospital in April 2006. Shoemaker has reportedly maintained his innocence and vowed to appeal the con-viction. He has not yet been sentenced.

According to the Patients’ Choice website, the hospital is a “25-bed critical access facility that provides acute care and emergency ser-vices; (and) inpatient and outpatient behavioral health services. Other outpatient programs include respira-tory and physical therapy.”

It is not yet clear what

supervisors will decide long term. Hiring a management company or leasing the hos-pital again are options, John-son said.

“In leasing, the county is not responsible for making ends meet; that is up to the lessee. The hospital is turned over lock, stock and barrel to the operating company,” he said. “If it is managed, if hos-pital revenues do not meet hospital expenses, the county is on the hook to meet those expenses.”

Vicksburg-area schools and their principalsVicksburg-Warren School District — first day of school Monday:• Beechwood Elementary — John Johnson• Bovina Elementary — Miki Ginn• Bowmar Avenue Elementa-ry — Tammy Burris• Dana Road Elementary — Ethel Lassiter• Redwood Elementary — Randy Broome• Sherman Avenue Elemen-tary — Ray Hume• South Park Elementary — Wanda Fears• Warrenton Elementary — Janice Hatcher• Vicksburg Intermediate — Sharon Williams• Warren Central Intermedi-ate — Tonya Magee• Vicksburg Junior — Anto-nio Cooper (interim)• Warren Central Junior — Cedric Magee• Vicksburg High — Derrick Reed

• Warren Central High — Ja-mie Creel• Grove Street — Lee Dixon

Travelers Rest Christian Academy — first day of school Monday:• Latrice McGill (director)

Vicksburg Catholic School — first day of school Wednesday:• St. Francis Xavier Elementa-ry — Mary Arledge• St. Aloysius High — Mi-chele Connelly

Porters Chapel Acade-my — first day of school Thursday:• Pam Wilbanks

Agape Montessori Chris-tian Academy — first day of school Aug. 13:• Lois Christian

Vicksburg Communi-ty School — first day of school Wednesday:• Renee Kendrick (adminis-trator)

VWSD AwardsAnnounced Thursday for the 2011-12 school year:

Teachers of the YearDistrict winner — Jennifer Grey, Vicksburg HighMelissa Hardy — Beech-wood ElementaryTorri Shelton — Bovina El-ementaryJoanne Ryan — Bowmar El-ementaryApril Ross — Dana Road El-ementaryLatasha Banks — Grove Street SchoolWyn Pratt — Redwood El-ementaryBetty Smith — Sherman Avenue ElementaryDarryl Floyd — South Park ElementaryHeather Gordon — Warren-ton ElementaryRegina O’Leary — Vicks-burg IntermediateMary Frances Jackson — Warren Central IntermediateMary Ann Peoples — Vicks-burg JuniorHerman Biedenharn — Warren Central Junior HighKarla McHan — Warren Central High

Teacher Assis-tants of the YearDistrict winner — Belinda Davis-Smith, Vicksburg In-termediate SchoolBobbie Wilson — Beech-wood ElementaryCindy Lewis — Bovina El-ementarySara L. Brown-Walker — Bowmar ElementaryMychal Winters — Dana Road ElementaryAlma L. Jackson — Grove Street SchoolMonica R. Evans — Red-wood ElementaryCandace Reed Goodwin — Sherman Avenue Elemen-taryGloria Polk — South Park Elementary

Anquinette Jenkins — Warrenton ElementaryEleese Kemp — Warren Central IntermediateBuffy Willliams — Vicks-burg Junior HighToni S. London — Warren Central Junior HighDian Riley — Vicksburg HighBrad Babb — Warren Cen-tral High

Parents of the YearDistrict winner — Renee Styles, Sherman Avenue Ele-mentary and Warren Central Intermediate SchoolDeann Hill — Beechwood ElementaryElisa Haggard — Bovina El-ementaryAmy Jackson — Bowmar El-ementaryBridgette Harris — Dana Road ElementaryTonya Kenney — Grove Street SchoolNatalie Azlin — Redwood ElementarySusan Trest — South Park ElementaryVicki Wester — Warrenton ElementaryKelli Randolph — Vicks-burg Intermediate SchoolTammi Sims — Vicksburg Junior HighFrances and Dennis Chip-ley — Warren Central Junior HighMary Jane Cooksey — Vicksburg HighHenrietta Dagher — War-ren Central High

OthersDistrict Administrator of the Year — Derrick Reed, Vicksburg High School, prin-cipalBest School Spirit — War-ren Central IntermediateMost Improved Discipline, Secondary — Warren Cen-tral Junior High SchoolMost Improved Discipline, Elementary — Dana Road Elementary

Ida Mae Page ScottUTICA — Ida Mae Page

Scott died Monday, July 30, 2012, at her home. She was 100.

Mrs. Scott was retired from Copiah County Schools with more than 30 years as a first-grade teacher.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 67 years, Winfield Scott Sr.

Survivors include two daughters, Artha Mae Claish of Augusta, Ga., and Rosa Burnett of San Antonio, Texas; two sons, James Scott of Cheltenham, Md., and Winfield Scott Jr. of Lumber-ton, N.J.; two sisters, Ledora Surgeno of Utica and Ear-line Jenkins of Palo Alto, Calif.; five grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchil-dren; and other relatives and friends.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Temple Christ Holiness Church with the Rev. Clarence Cazar, pastor, officiating. Burial will follow at Temple Christ Holiness Church Cemetery. Visitation will be from 7 until 9 tonight at Westhaven Memorial Funeral Home.

Pallbearers will be James E. Scott, Winfield Scott Jr., Robert Moore, Marc Anthony Burnett, Edward Lee Curtis and Andrew Claish.

Rose Marie ShelbyRose Marie Shelby died

Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, at Shady Lawn Nursing Home. She was 68.

Ms. Shelby was retired from Interna-tional Plastics Corporation of Los Ange-les and was a member of Poplar Hill M.B. Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Brent Sr. and Cora Thompson Shelby.

She is survived by four brothers, Brent Shelby Jr. of Natchitoches, La., Charles Shelby and Michael Shelby, both of Vicksburg, and Ulysses Wolfe of Dallas, Texas; two sisters, Henrietta Shelby and Brenda Shelby, both of Vicksburg; and nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives.

A memorial service will be

at 2 p.m. Saturday at W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home with the Rev. Johnnie L. Williams officiating.

Rosie Lee TillmanRosie Lee Tillman died

Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, at River Region Medical Center.

She was 86. W.H. Jefferson Funeral

Home has charge of arrangements.

DEATHS

Rose MarieShelby