Funeral service for Olivia Danielle David will be 2 p.m., Saturday, March 19, at Solid Rock Pentecostal Church with

burial in Midway Cemetery. Visitation is from 4-8 p.m., Friday, March 18, at Solid Rock and will resume Saturday from 1 p.m. until the time of the service.

Ms. David, 20, of Meadville, MS, entered eternity March 12, 2022. She was born in Natchez, MS, June 11, 2001, to

Sherman Anthony David and Monica Monique David. Olivia let the Light of Christ shine through her life. She was quick to

share the gospel of Jesus to anyone and was a true soul winner for Him. Her smile was contagious and her life, though short

as we see it, was full grace and God’s glory. Olivia was glad to go and meet with the Church, she was an encouraging person,

and she will be greatly missed by her family, friends, and church fellowship.

She is preceded in death by her maternal grandmother, Margie Dover and her paternal grandfather, Anthony David, Jr.

Those left to remember her are her parents and sister, Brooke Bumgarner and husband, Noah; grandparents, Gordon Dover

and Sheila Dover; aunts, Michelle Beach and Mary Bizette; and two brothers through love, Matt Foster and Paxton Foster.

She is also survived by her faith family and other loving family members and friends.

Services for Lanny Ray Cade of Brookhaven are 2:00 pm, Wednesday, March 16, 2022, at New Hope Methodist Church with burial at the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 12:00 until the time of the services.

Mr. Lanny Ray Cade, 77, passed away on March 13, 2022. He was born on March 21, 1944, to the late Vernon Ray Cade and Aronell Snyder Cade.

Mr. Cade served his country in the U.S. Army during Vietnam. He was a member of the New Hope Methodist Church and was owner of Lanny Cade Logging.

Lanny was a member of the NRA and enjoyed deer hunting and listening to his dogs run. He loved spending time with his family, and spending time with his friends, listening to old country music.

Preceding him in death were his parents; grandparents, Prentis and Lona Snyder, Eugene and Dora Cade; brothers-in-law, M.K. Turk, Loyd White, Mike Ferrell, Clayton Allgood, William Brownell and Sam Smith; sister-in-law, Alice White Smith; father and mother-in-law, Prentiss White and Geneva White; and niece, Tosha Cooper.

He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Gerldean Cade; son, Juston Cade and wife, Lora ; daughter, Shannon Cade Smith and husband Kurt; sister, Katrina Turk; four grandchildren, Jered Cade, Malori Cade, Aiden Watts, and Ben Watts; along with special friends, Robert Clark of Long Island, NY, and Tony Cooper of McComb, MS; and a host of nieces and nephews, and other loving family members and friends.

The family wishes to thank Hospice Ministries nurses, Brook Nevels, Emily Rains, Sherry Britt, and his care sitters, Laverne Lea, Ann McManus and Nita Barlow for their loving compassion and care.

Memorials can be made to the Wounded Warrior Project.

Services for John Paul Smith are 2 p.m., Monday, March 14, 2022, at Riverwood Family, with interment in Clear Branch Baptist Church Cemetery. Visitation is from 1 p.m. until the time of the service.

Mr. Smith, 92, was born December 21, 1929, in Lincoln County, to John Emerson and Mamie Stanley Smith. He died March 12, 2022, at Veteran’s Memorial Retirement Home in Oxford, MS.

He was retired from Shippers Express in Jackson, having been employed through the years as a rate and traffic trainee with the I.C. Railroad in New Orleans, Traffic Manager for Higginbotham-Bailey Co. in downtown Dallas, and as a Rate Analyst with Red Ball Motor Freight and Shippers Express in Jackson.

He attended New Sight School as a boy and graduated from Copiah-Lincoln High School in 1948. He served in the United States Navy in Japan and later an icebreaker operating out of Boston. He was honorably discharged in 1952, at San Diego, after serving four- and one-half years in the Navy. He then earned an associate degree from Los Angeles City College in 1954 and attended the University of Southern Mississippi majoring in history. He also attended the evening divisions of Tulane and Southern Methodist Universities while employed in New Orleans and Dallas respectively. While at Southern Methodist he earned a Certificate in Traffic Management.

John Paul was always of a studious nature and a collector of books from youth. He was especially interested in history, geography, literature, and creative writing, winning several awards while in college. He read prodigiously and was keenly interested in everything and everyone around him. He enjoyed his roses and camellias, photography, nature, travel, and his family. His ability as a genealogist was widely recognized, but he was just as content while digging in his flower gardens as when digging through old records in libraries and courthouses. After retirement he compiles some ten books on the early records of the Brookhaven area which are in libraries throughout the country.

Mr. Smith had been a member of Clear Branch Baptist Church since 1943, and had previously served as teacher of the senior men’s Sunday School class. He also wrote the first history of Clear Branch Church for its centennial celebration in 1980. He is also a member of the Mississippi Historical Society and both the Brookhaven and the National Camellia Society.

In 2003, John Paul met the love of his life in the person of Bessie Rand Montgomery. They were married in 2008, when he was 78 years of age, at Pine Ridge Presbyterian Church near Natchez, Bessie’s childhood church. John Paul, a bachelor most of his life, would tell anyone that his happiest days began when he met Bessie.

Preceding him in death were his parents; two sisters, Edwina Smith Crouch (Leory), and Etta Smith Burke (Gerald Burke).

Survivors are his wife, Bessie Smith of Old Red Star; his brother, Russell Smith (Betty Jo) of Austin, TX; two stepdaughters, Linda Wade (Mike) of Collierville, TN, and Betsy Ann Montgomery of Brookhaven, MS.

Billy Joe Farrell, 81, of McComb, passed from this life March 11, 2022, at his residence. He was born in Pennsboro, West Virginia, July 16, 1940, to Chester Farrell and Lula Miracle Farrell. He is retired from Dupont. Mr. Farrell was a member of Centenary United Methodist Church.

He is preceded in death by his wife, Carla Jonita Farrell; his parents; and brother, Junior Farrell.

Those left to cherish his memory are his sons, Wendall Todd Farrell and William Sean Farrell; daughter, Sarita Leian Licot; four grandchildren, Mark Andrew Licot II, Mercedes Nicole Holeman, Krystina Marie Vincent, Paicee Shavon Farrell; two great grandchildren, Ryker Stone Holeman and Emma Skye Vincent; sister-in-law, Jami C. Finley, as well as other loving family members and friends.