Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Tuesday, March 10, 1987

Milton O. McCarty

LAUREL -- Milton Oree McCarty, 65, died March 9, 1987, at Jones County Community Hospital. Services are 2 p.m. today at Goodwill Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Jones Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. McCarty, a lifelong resident of Jones County, was a member of the Goodwill Baptist Church. He was retired from Standard Oil Co. and was a former employee of the Masonite Corp. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars and a Mason of the Laurel Lodge.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ann Reeves McCarty; sons, Wayne McCarty of Jackson and Michael J. McCarty of Laurel; daughter, Miss Deborah McCarty of Dallas, Texas; brother, Willie McCarty of Stringer; sisters, Mrs. Elena Ward of Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. Venne Mae Scribner of Rochester, N.Y.; and four grandchildren.