A gravel road in south Vicksburg will bear the name of a local resident’s two daughters killed in separate car accidents, each more than a decade ago.

Missy Deitch Circle, a road two-tenths of a mile long that intersects with Grange Hall Road about a mile east of U.S. 61 South, will honor each daughter’s first names, said Dot Jackson, who owns six acres along the road.

“Deitch was killed in 1987 in an accident on Frontage Road. She was 15,” she said Tuesday after the Vicksburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved the name. “Missy was in the car and was severely injured.”

Missy, she said, was 30 in 2000 when she was killed in an accident in Byram.

“I wanted to name it Jackson Circle, but they (911 officials) said there were too many things named Jackson in Vicksburg, so I decided to name it after my daughters,” Jackson said.

City zoning director Dalton McCarty said the street is in an area zoned as multi-use, which allows mobile homes. He said the area has mobile home developments on Bluecreek Drive and Stillwater Drive, which are on the north side of Grange Hall Road across from Missy Deitch.

E-911 regulations require a road name anytime a road has three or more buildings on it. The road is private, which means the city won’t have to maintain it.

Jackson said the street’s name has been well-received by family members and people who knew her daughters. “I was surprised at how many people remembered my daughters,” she said.

It was one of two 911 matters the board handled at a special called meeting Tuesday. The second vote changed the address of the Furniture Barn from 600 Jackson St. to 1001 Levee St.

Kenny Staggs, 911 address coordinator, said the business is at Jackson and Levee streets, but construction of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lower Mississippi River Museum and Riverfront Interpretive Center cut off the 600 block of Jackson Street, forcing traffic on Jackson to go around the center to reach the business.

City officials were forced to issue the special call after the board failed to have a quorum for its regular Monday meeting. Mayor Paul Winfield said he could not attend the Monday meeting because of personal business, and South Ward Alderman Sid Beauman was ill. Beauman was absent Tuesday.

The City Charter requires the board to meet the first and third Monday and the 10th and 25th of each month.

Because the board did not meet Monday, city attorney Lee Thames said, it was required by ordinance to call the special meeting.