Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Puckett Rites Set Friday
Funeral services for D. J. Puckett, 56, a resident of 204 Casey's Lane, will be conducted Friday at 10 a.m., from the Baldwin Funeral chapel. Interment will be in Cedarlawn cemetery.
He leaves three sisters: Mrs. C. B. Garrett and Mrs. Stella Sheehan of Jackson, and Mrs. L. Swope of New Orleans.
Puckett died Tuesday while being evacuated from his residence which was under water in the Rankin area.
Friday, December 22, 1961