Extracted from The Laurel Leader-Call (Laurel, MS)
MISS GORDIE LACKEY
Funeral services for Miss Gordie McCarty Lackey of the University Commons Apartments will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Memory Chapel with the Rev. Artis Brewer and the Rev. Leroy Craven officiating.
Miss Lackey, a native of Jasper County, was a nurse in Birmingham, Ala., at University Hospital. She retired to Laurel two and one-half years ago.
She was a member of the Springer Baptist Church.
Survivors include six brothers, J. O. McCarty, Oren McCarty and Lambert McCarty, all of Stringer; LaMar McCarty of Laurel; Edward McCarty of Ocean Springs and Luther of Florence, Ala., as well as a number of nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Kenneth McCarty, Marion McCarty, Lewis Cannon, Wayne Burnett and Paul Johnson with interment in Providence Cemetery in Stringer.
Memory Chapel Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Monday, May 30, 1977