Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Saturday, November 27, 1971

OTHAR [sic OTHO] BUFKIN

FOREST -- Funeral services for Othar [sic Otho] Bufkin, 48, will be 10 a.m. Saturday ta [sic at] Lorena Baptist Church. Burial will be in Lorena Cemetery in Smith Co. Ott and Lee Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Bufkin died Thursday in the Lakey Memorial Hospital at Forest.

He was a native of Smith Co. and an employee of the Forest Packing Copmany [sic Company].

Survivors include his wife, Lula Mae Bufkin, Rt. 2 Forest; two sons, Jerry and Bill Bufkin, Rt. 2 Forest; two daughters, Mrs. Thomas Perkins and Miss Shirley Bufkin, both of Rt. 2, Forest; his mother, Mrs. Azzie Bufkin, Rt. 2, Forest; three sisters, Mrs. Eva Hodges and Mrs. Judge Weldon, both of Rt. 2, Forest, and Mrs. Lloyd Smith, Jackson; five brothers, Ottis, James, and Everett Bufkin, all of Rt. 2, Forest, Earey [sic Earcy] Bufkin, Lake, and Clarence Bufkin, Morton. There were two grandchildren.