• Opal Boxx Champion Gore — 89, died Tuesday, March 23, 2010. Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Seven Oaks Funeral Home in Water Valley. Burial will follow in the Bethel Baptist Church Cemetery. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the funeral home.
• John Baker Ratliff — died Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi in Oxford. Arrangements are incomplete with Coleman Funeral Home of Oxford.

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