Quitman funeral home obituary feed lists recent local death notices

Wright’s Funeral Home’s Quitman obituary feed had become a real-time bulletin board for one of Mississippi’s smallest counties, with Johnny Cliff Farrar listed most recently after his death on Tuesday, May 26, and publication on May 28. In Quitman County, where the population was 6,176 in the 2020 census and an estimated 5,364 on July 1, 2025, a single notice page can carry outsized importance for families spread across Quitman, Marks, Clarkdale and nearby communities.

The feed also showed Jay B. Stallings, who died May 20 and was published May 25; Virginia Elvin Pettis, who died May 24 and was published May 25; Bradley Lamar Day, who died May 18 and was published May 19; Charles E. “Chuck” Fuller, who died May 16 and was published May 18; Cletis Arvin McCarra and Johnny Ray Jackson Sr., both published May 16 and May 18; Gary Matthew Conner, published May 9; Mickey Dewayne Becton, published May 8; and Donald Roger Tucker, published May 6. For many residents, those names are the first signal that a visitation, funeral service or burial arrangement may be underway.

Farrar’s obituary said he was 72, from Clarkdale, and died at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. It also directed memorial gifts to New Hope Baptist Church or its Guatemala mission trip, a detail that tied the notice to a specific congregation and gave neighbors a concrete way to respond. Jay B. Stallings’ notice carried similar local roots: he was born July 16, 1963, in Quitman, graduated from Clarkdale High School, and attended East Mississippi Community College, where he participated in marching, concert and jazz band.

The funeral home’s own site helps explain why the obituary feed functions as both notice board and service hub. Wright’s Funeral Home says it provides funeral, memorial, aftercare, pre-planning and cremation services to Quitman and surrounding areas, and that it helps families with death certificates, obituary drafting, service scheduling, casket or urn selection, pallbearers and transportation arrangements. The business was moved to its current Church Street location in 1933, became Walters Funeral Home in the early to mid-1950s, was purchased by L.G. “Glynn” Wright, Sr. in 1970, and was remodeled in 1987 and again in 2005.

Wright’s Funeral Home is now owned and operated by Louie Glynn “Butch” Wright, Jr. and Louie Glynn “Lou” Wright III. In a county where neighbors often rely on church networks, word of mouth and one trusted funeral home page, the feed remained one of the most practical ways to track who had died, where to send sympathy, and what arrangements mattered next.