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COURTLAND - Lucius Bernard Phelps, 87, died June 16, 2008, at his residence.
Services were at Wells Funeral Home. Burial was in Pilgrims Rest Baptist Church Cemetery with full military honors. Wells Funeral Home had charge.
Phelps, born Feb. 14, 1921, in Panola County, to the late Edward Lawrence Phelps and the late Stella Smith Phelps, graduated from Black Jack High School, Mississippi State University and Naval Officers’ Training School at Notre Dame University. He served with the seventh Fleet Amphibious Unit in Pacific in World War II as the ship’s engineer and supply officer. He was a member of Gideon’s International, a lay speaker, and school teacher. He was a member of Pilgrims Rest Baptist Church, where he served as a teacher and a deacon for 55 years. He had retired from the U.S. Postal Service as a rural mail carrier and from farming.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Lewis Phelps and Audley “Jake” Phelps and one great-grandson, Davy Bryant.
Survivors included his wife of 64 years, Martha McCown Phelps of Courtland; one son, Donald Bernard Phelps and wife, Angie of Courtland; three daughters, Teresa Wright and husband Willis of Batesville, Martha Lynn Bowles and husband, Dean of Courtland and Annette McMahan of Batesville; one sister, Faye Carvan and husband, Homer of Enid; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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