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Clifford Green Worsham, 92, died June 25, 2009, at his home. He was born March 7, 1917, in Corinth to Ben Frank and Helen Boone Worsham. He graduated from Corinth High School and received his BSCE from the University of Mississippi in 1939 with special distinction. While at Ole Miss he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, where he received numerous honors and awards. He worked as an engineer for Mississippi State Parks and Dupont. He enlisted in the United States Navy and served in World War II, earning four Medals of Distinction. After the war in 1946, he returned to Corinth and joined his two brothers in forming Worsham Brothers Construction Company. He was an active member of the community as well as First United Methodist Church. During his life he served as the University of Mississippi Alumni president in 1974-1975, was a member of the Ole Miss Athletic Committee, and was honored in the University of Mississippi Hall of Fame in 1986. In 1989 he was awarded the Corinth Junior Auxiliary Outstanding Citizen of the Year Award. He considered his primary accomplishment as “returning from World War II and marrying the girl next door, Mildred Mercier.”
Services were at First United Methodist Church with burial at Henry Cemetery.
Survivors included two daughters, Becky Dalton (Bill) and Cathy Wheeler (Jim), both of Corinth; one brother, Leroy Wesley Worsham (Sara) of Corinth; three grandchildren, William Tolbert Dalton III (Ashleigh) of Johnson City, Tenn., Laura Catherine Leonard of Norfolk, Va., and Frank Worsham Leonard of Corinth; and two great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Mildred Mercier Worsham; one brother, Ben Frank Worsham Jr.; and one grandson, Clifford Dewitt Dalton.
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