Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Thursday, October 9, 1997

Clarence ‘Cotton’ Griffin
Retired Army staff sergeant

WALNUT GROVE -- Ret. Army Staff Sgt. Clarence “Cotton” Griffin, 72, died of heart failure Wednesday in Leake Memorial Hospital.

Services are 2 p.m. today at Wilcox Funeral Home with burial in Fuston Cemetery.

Mr. Griffin, a Leake County native, was a member of New Zion Baptist Church.

Survivors include: wife, Jean; sons, Danny Griffin and Greg Griffin, both of Walnut Grove; brothers, D.R. Griffin and Eddie Griffin, both of Jackson, James Griffin of Grenada and Bobby Griffin of Meridian; sister, Hazel Wright of Carthage; and a grandchild.