Date of birth: 08 Aug 1918
Date of death: 16 Oct 1983

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Burial Information

Section 06 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 0593-02
Status: Occupied

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Notes

Burial: 18 Oct 1983

Obituary
John Theodore Higginbottom

Funeral services for John Theodore Higginbottom, Sr. of Lexington were held from the Southern Funeral Home chapel on Tuesday, October 18 at 1:00 p.m. with Rev. Mike Steen officiating. Interment followed in Odd Fellows Cemetery in Lexington.

Mr. Higginbottom, 65, died unexpectedly at the Holmes County Hospital in Lexington on Sunday, October 16. He was a retired insurance salesman and Clarion Ledger carrier and a native of Tishomingo County. He was a member of Beulah Baptist Church.

Mr. Higginbottom is survived by his wife, Helen Bobo Higginbottom of Lexington; a daughter, Mrs. Mary Jane Bassett of Jackson, Tennessee; one son, John T. Higginbottom, Jr. of Birmingham, Alabama; and two grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Billy Joe Gilmore, Billy Causey, Mills Heard, Virgil King, Jr., Reuben Netherland and Billy Zeigler.

The Holmes County Herald
Lexington, MS
October 20, 1983

Family Relations of
John Theodore Higginbottom

Parents:

John Thomas Higginbottom

Mary Myrtle White Higginbottom

Siblings:

John Theodore Higginbottom

Chester Paul Higginbottom

James Orace Higginbottom

Spouse:

Helen Virginia Bobo Higginbottom

Research Notes

Husband of Helen Higginbottom.

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