Paul “Junior” Mowdy

Services for Paul “Junior” Mowdy were Saturday, May 8, 2021, at 2:00 p.m. from Bethsaida Baptist Church with Rev. Billy James officiating.  Burial followed in the church cemetery.   McClain-Hays Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Mowdy, 85, died Tuesday, May 4, 2021.

He was a native of the Bethsaida Community in Neshoba County.  He worked 44 years until retirement for Jitney-Jungle in Jackson, Meridian and Philadelphia.  Mr. Mowdy was Baptist by faith. 

Survivors include wife Geraldine Bishop Mowdy of Philadelphia; sons, Paul Wilbur Mowdy of Meridian, Richard Earl Mowdy and Robert Dewayne Mowdy, both of Philadelphia; daughter, Brenda Carol Northam of Stella, MO; eight grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; sister, Dorothy Wilkerson of Indiana; brother, James Mowdy of Philadelphia. 

Mr. Mowdy was preceded in death by parents, Charlie and Lunie Mowdy; siblings, Kenneth Mowdy, Clinton Mowdy, and Lorene Doner.