Funeral services for Mr. Lee Edward Gatlin will be 11 a.m., Friday, August 30, 2019,
at Moak’s Creek Baptist Church, with interment in the church Cemetery. Visitation is
from 5-8 p.m., Thursday, August 29, at Riverwood Family, resuming Friday from 10 a.m.
until time of the service at the church.
Mr. Gatlin, 83, of Bogue Chitto, passed from this life August 27, 2019 at North Oaks Health Center
in Hammond, Louisiana. He was born in Bogue Chitto, Mississippi, June 15, 1936, to his parents,
Edgar Neely Gatlin and Thresa Mae Whittington Gatlin. He was a 1954 graduate of
Bogue Chitto High School where he played on a state basketball championship team. He was a
member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church and the Bogue Chitto Masonic Lodge #260. He served as
a Lincoln County Supervisor from 1976-1984. He was a wonderful PawPaw and loved watching
his grandkids and great grandkids play sports and was an avid Mississippi State fan. Daddy loved
gardening and riding his farmall tractor. Through the years he worked in the oilfield, shipyard,
timber industry, sales, and was self-employed.
He is preceded in death by his parents; sister, Aline Maxwell; and granddaughter, Megan Mae Gatlin.
Those who are left to cherish his memory are his wife of 61 years, Ernestine Case Gatlin; son, Jamie Gatlin
and wife Frances; daughters, Vickie Bigham and husband, Dave, Julie Gray and husband, Kent; brother,
Charles Gatlin and wife Betty; sister, Earline Hall, brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Roland and Irma Ross;
nine grandchildren, Jeremy Brown (Carrie), Leah Brown Cutrer (Elliott), Kristin Gray Underwood (Grant),
Karri Dixon Smith (Tyler), Justin Brown (Jacquelyn), Gage Gatlin (Hannah), Kelly Gray (Rachel), Eli Gatlin (Hope),
and Noah Gatlin; and 16 great grandchildren. He is also survived by his longtime friend and
“Preacher”, Bro. Billy Howse as well as numerous nieces, nephews and other loving family members and friends.
Pallbearers for the service will be his grandchildren: Jeremy Edward Brown, Justin Daniel Brown,
Gage Hartley Gatlin, Eli Loring Gatlin, Noah Cutrer Gatlin, Kelly Gatlin Gray; honorary pallbearers
will be Sam Laird, Troy Laird, Monette Moak, Delton Moak, Billy Gunther, Gene Jones, Dr. Tom Carey, and Jerry Joe Brent.
