By Staff
Services for Richard Eggleston Wilbourn II will be held Wednesday, at 10:30 a.m. in the First Presbyterian Church of Meridian with Dr. Rhett G. Payne III officiating. Burial will be in Magnolia Cemetery. Barham Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Wilbourn, 67, a native of Meridian, died Saturday, Oct. 23, 2004 in Rush Foundation Hospital. A lawyer, businessman, banker, and farmer, Mr. Wilbourn began his career with the law firm of Wilbourn, Lord and Williams in 1962 and was the senior partner of the law firm of Wilbourn and Rogers at the time of his death. Mr. Wilbourn served as a United States Magistrate early in his career. He became Chairman of the Board and CEO of Inn Serve Corporation, a hotel management company, in 1984 and served in that capacity until 2002. He became a director of Citizens National Bank of Meridian in 1975 and became Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2000.
Born in Meridian, Mr. Wilbourn was educated in the Meridian Public School System, Washington and Lee University and the University of Virginia School of Law.
He was a lifetime member of the First Presbyterian Church of Meridian and a member and former Chairman of the Board of Deacons. He was a past president of the Meridian Jaycees and the Meridian Kiwanis Club. He was a former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kings Daughters and Sons Rest Home and a former Chairman of the Board of Review of the Boy Scouts of America. He formerly served as a Director of the Meridian Chamber of Commerce and the American Red Cross and as a trustee of the Lamar School Foundation.
Survivors include his wife, Deanna A. Wilbourn, of Meridian; a son, Richard E. Wilbourn III and his wife, Victoria, of Jackson; two daughters, Elizabeth W. Williamson and her husband, Russell, and Garnett W. Hutton and her husband, Tom, both of Memphis, Tenn.; six granddaughters, Sophia and Deanna Wilbourn of Jackson, Caroline and Sarah Williamson and Garnett and Callie Hutton of Memphis and one grandson, Russell Williamson, Jr., of Memphis. Other survivors include a sister, Margaret W. Vise and her husband, Dr. Guy T. Vise Jr., of Jackson; and a brother, James G. Wilbourn and his wife, Jane, of Clarksdale.
Mr. Wilbourn was preceded in death by his parents, James Cox Wilbourn and Garnett Sturdivant Wilbourn of Meridian.
Pallbearers are Dr. George Arrington, Alston Buntyn, A. L. Cahn, Michael G. Crosby, Scott Lovett, Archie R. McDonnell, Jr., Gerald Mitchell, Fred O. Poitevent, Charles Reasonover, Don O. Rogers, Dr. Frank H. Tucker, and Thomas E. Williams.
Honorary pallbearers are Charles P. Carriere III, Micajah P. Sturdivant II, Ben S. Yandell, William M. Yandell, Dr. Jack F. Denney, Dr. J. Gill Holland, David C. Majure, William H. Watson III, and the Board of Directors of The Citizens National Bank of Meridian.
Mr. Wilbourn was instrumental in the creation of four separate educational, charitable and religious trusts of which the Citizens National Bank of Meridian is trustee. These trusts are for the benefit of the Lamar School Foundation, French Camp Academy, Washington and Lee University and the First Presbyterian Church of Meridian. In lieu of flowers the family requests memorials to one of these four charitable trusts be made to the Citizens National Bank of Meridian, Trustee, Post Office Box 911, Meridian, MS 39302.
Visitation will be held Tuesday from 4:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the funeral home and on Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. until the time of the service at First Presbyterian Church.
Retired
Graveside services for Annie L. Kelly McFaden will be held Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Cains Chapel Methodist Church Cemetery with the Rev. Buddy Thrasher officiating. Stephens Funeral Home and Gassett Funeral Home in Wetumpka, Ala. are in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. McFaden, 89, of Meridian, died Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004, in Marion. She worked for S.H. Kress as a supervisor. She was a member of Oakland Heights United Methodist Church.
Survivors include her son, Joe McFaden and his wife, Joann, of Meridian; grandchildren, Deborah Kenney and her husband, Arris of Wetumpka, Ala. and Sandra Carter and her husband, Tim, of Brandon; five great-grandchildren and a brother, William "Jack" Kelly of Montgomery, Ala.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Willie Hugh McFaden; her parents; one sister and two brothers.
Visitation will be today from 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. at Stephens Funeral Home and Tuesday from 5 p.m.-7 p.m. at the funeral home in Wetumpka, Ala.
Arrangements were incomplete at Barham Funeral Home for Ray Rutledge, 77, of Meridian, who died Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004, in his home.