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Johnnie Mae Grantham Ferguson
(April 13, 1926 - January 25, 2012)
Funeral services for Mrs. Johnnie Mae Grantham Ferguson of Kilmichael will be at
2:00 p.m. on Friday, January 27, at Oliver Chapel in Winona, with burial following in
the Pine Bluff Cemetery near Kilmichael. Rev. Dale Strickland and Rev. John
Lumbley will officiate the services.
Visitation will be on Thursday, January 26, from 5:00 until 8:00 p.m., at Oliver
Funeral Home in Winona.
Mrs. Ferguson died of heart failure on Wednesday, January 25, at the North
Mississippi Medical Center Long Term Care Unit in Eupora. She was 85 years
old.
Mrs. Ferguson was the daughter of the late John and Retha Lampkin Grantham
and the widow of the late Lacy Lodell Ferguson. She was a homemaker and a
member of Pine Bluff Baptist Church. She was an avid gardener and loved to quilt.
In addition to her husband and parents, Mrs. Ferguson was preceded in death by
a sister, Katherine Johnson; and three brothers, Pete Grantham, William
Grantham, and James Grantham.
Survivors include three daughters, Beverley Roth and her husband, Bill, of Bartlett,
TN, Patsy Varnes and her husband, Eddie, of Kilmichael, and Dianne Varnes and
her husband, Ricky, of Kilmichael; two sisters, Mildred Criddle of Belzoni and
Thelma Hoover of Eupora; two sisters-in-law, Nobie Ferguson of Winona and
Annie Grantham of Yazoo City; six grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren; and
several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Terry Johnson, Jerry Johnson, Billy Roth, Chris Varnes, Louis
Grantham, and Junior Grantham.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Pine Bluff Cemetery Fund.