Obituary – Dale Flowers

Published 12:50 pm Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Dale Flowers, 67, passed away Wednesday, July 17, 2019, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi in Oxford. Visitation will be Thursday, July 25, 2019, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Coleman Funeral Home. A funeral service will be held Friday, July 26, 2019, at 11 a.m., at Clear Creek M.B. Church (35 CR 313, Oxford, MS 38655). Interment will be at Harrisonville M.B. Church Cemetery (CR 164, Oxford, MS 38655). Coleman Funeral Home of Oxford is in charge of arrangements. 

Mr. Flowers was born and raised in Oxford. As a young man, he enjoyed participating in many different sports, and he was very athletic. When he was just 13 years old, he started delivering newspapers throughout different neighborhoods in Oxford.  Mr. Flowers was a salesman for JCou Watches, and a member of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Linkedin Business Site. 

Mr. Flowers is survived by his father, Larry Gatewood, of Gary, Ind.; two uncles, Bobby J. (Carolyn) Flowers, of Phoenix, Ariz., and Leroy Flowers, of Atlanta, Ga.; and a host of half brothers, half sisters, and cousins.