Extracted from The Natchez Democrat (Natchez, MS)
Wednesday, January 5, 2005

Dudley Halford

Oct. 20, 1918-Jan. 3, 2005

NATCHEZ -- Services for Dudley Halford, 86, of Natchez, who died Monday, Jan. 3, 2005, at Natchez Community Hospital, will be 11 a.m. today at Laird Funeral Home Union Street Chapel.

Burial will be in the Greenlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Laird Funeral Home.

Visitation is from 10 a.m. until service time today at the funeral home.

Mr. Halford was born Oct. 20, 1918, in Franklin County, the son of the late Willie and Janie Norris Halford.

He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Rhoda Halford; and son, Calvin Halford.

Survivors include his children, Eugene Halford and wife, Sonyi, of Rosharon, Texas, Faye Woods and husband, William, of Woodville, Bernice Harvey and husband, Coy, Nadine Holton and husband, Delmer, Betty Dawson and husband, Tony, and Melvin Halford, all of Natchez; brother, Weldon Halford of Natchez; sisters, Vivian Joy of Natchez and Cloney Brown of Meadville; nine grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren.

Honorary pallbearers will be Tonya Dawson, Stacie Cloy, and Sundra Williams.