CORINTH — Jewell Lofton Thompson, formerly of Vicksburg, died Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2010, at Country Cottage Assisted Living in Corinth. She was 93.

Mrs. Thompson was a retired school teacher and a founding member of Redbone United Methodist Church. She was a former member and Sunday school teacher at Crawford Street United Methodist Church.

For the past 10 years, she had lived in Corinth, where she was a member and Sunday school teacher at First United Methodist Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband, George Hope Thompson; her parents, Claude and Eunice Lofton; a brother, James Lofton; and two sisters, Iris Gragg and Annie Summers.

Survivors include three daughters, Patricia Marsh of Jackson, Tenn., Hope Waite Sorrell of Raymond and Georgia Lynn Lofstrom of Corinth; six grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and other relatives and friends.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Redbone United Methodist Church Cemetery. Burial, directed by Magnolia Funeral Home of Corinth, will follow.

Memorials may be made to Redbone United Methodist Church, 43 Burnt House Road, Vicksburg, MS 39180; Crawford Street United Methodist Church, 900 Crawford St., Vicksburg, MS 39180; or First United Methodist Church, 901 N. Fillmore St., Corinth, MS 38834.

Condolences may be logged at www.magnoliafuneralhome.net.