Edwin Price

Published 11:05 pm Saturday, October 20, 2012

Edwin Price of Mound died Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, at Oliver Branch Nursing Home in Tallulah. He was 91.

Mr. Price was a native of Bienville Parish, La, but lived most his life in Madison Parish and the Vicksburg area. He retired as a welder from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1980.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, at Glenwood Chapel with the Revs. D.W. Tipton and J. Neal Price officiating. Burial will follow in Greenlawn Gardens with Glenwood Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements.

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Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

He is survived by a son, Jerry Price of Vicksburg; three daughters, Patsy Conrad of Mound, Helen Watson of Tallulah and Joyce Smith of Richland; eight grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be the Rev. J. Neal Price, Guy Creekmore Jr., Jerry Marshall, Joey Hearn, Kenton Brabham and Charles T. Pettway.

Honorary pallbearers will be Karl Creekmore, Dr. Calvin Masterson, the Rev. Ricky James, the Rev. Mike Fields, Dr. Michael Winters, Kenneth Tatum, Wayne McKnight and employees of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.