Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Thursday, October 8, 1964

Mrs. Minnie Dodson

FOREST -- Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Jean Dodson, 75, of Walnut Grove, were held on Tuesday afternoon, October the [6th] at 3:00 from the Walnut Grove Baptist Church. Interment followed in the Harperville Cemetery in Harperville with Ott & Lee Funeral Home in charge.

Mrs. Dodson died in the Leake County Hospital in Carthage on Saturday. She was a member of the Baptist Church in Walnut Grove.

Survivors are her husband, R. M. Dodson, four daughters, Mrs. Thelma Curtis of California, Mrs. Claude Sones of Walnut Grove, Mrs. Austin Sanders of Carthage, and Mrs. W. P. Reeves of Houston, Texas; six sons, Marion Dodson, Jr., of Jackson, Pete Dodson and R. M. Dodson, both of Walnut Grove, Douglas Dodson of Forest, Milton Dodson of Harperville, and Homer Dodson of Houston, Texas; one sister, Mrs. Howard Weems of Baton Rouge, La.; two brothers, Lacey Joyner of Baton Rouge, La. and Charlie Joyner of Rayville, La.; twenty two grandchildren; and 30 [great] grandchildren.