Extracted from The Laurel Leader-Call (Laurel, MS)
Saturday, February 3, 1973

MRS. BERTHA HIGH

COLLINS, Miss. -- Mrs. Bertha Mae High, 76, Rt. 3, Collins, died Saturday morning at Covington County Hospital.

Funeral services will be held 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Willow Grove Baptist Church of which she was a member. Burial will be in the church cemetery, with Johns Funeral Home of Collins in charge. The Revs. Tom Jackson and Virgil Horsley will officiate.

Survivors are three daughters: Mrs. Max Mitchell, Collins, Mrs. Dewitt Mitchell, Tehula; Mrs. Lewis Welch, Mendenhall; six grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Albert Rogers, Stringer; and five brothers, H. O. McCarty, Reuben McCarty, Dewey McCarty, all of Laurel; Leonard McCarty, Collins; and E. F. McCarty, Beaumont.