Extracted from The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Saturday, March 1, 2003

Mary Ruth Laney Littlejohn

STARKVILLE - Mary Ruth Laney Littlejohn, 89, homemaker, died Friday at Golden Age Nursing Home in Greenwood. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Welch Funeral Home with burial in Oktibbeha Memorial Park Cemetery. She was a member of Starkville Church of Christ, Green Thumb Garden Club, Daughters of the American Revolution and Patrons of Excellence.

Mrs. Littlejohn, the widow of William W. Littlejohn, leaves a daughter, Betty L. Schultz of Urbana, Ill.; two sons, W. Laney Littlejohn of Houston, Texas, and Robert T. Littlejohn of Greenwood and Perdido Key, Fla., five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

The family requests that memorials be sent to Starkville Church of Christ.