MARSHALL JONES BOULDIN III

Clarksdale - Marshall Jones Bouldin, III, 89, a portrait artist, died November 12, 2012 at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis, TN. Visitation is Thursday, after burial services at the family home in Clarksdale, MS. Funeral services are 11 a.m. Thursday at First Presbyterian Church in Clarksdale, MS with burial in the Bouldin Family Cemetery. Meredith-Nowell Funeral Home in Clarksdale, MS is handling the arrangements. Mr. Bouldin graduated from Clarksdale High School and attended the Art Institute of Chicago. He received the following awards, the Portrait Society of America Life Time Achievement Award, Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Life Time Achievement Award, a retrospective lifetime exhibition at the Mississippi Museum of Art, an honorary Doctorate from Belhaven College. His portraits have hung in The White House, on Capitol Hill, in Museums, and in public and private collections across the country. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church. Survivors include: wife of 58 years, Mary Ellen Stribling Bouldin; four sons, Marshall Bouldin IV his wife Annette of Jackson, MS; James Bouldin and his wife Belen of Barcelona, Spain; Mahlon Bouldin of Memphis, TN and Jason Bouldin and his wife Alicia of Oxford, MS; sister, Helen Jones of Greensboro, NC; three grandchildren Ana, Elena and William Bouldin. Preceded in death by his parents Marshall J. Bouldin Jr., and Laurenze Cooper Bouldin. Memorials may be sent to First Presbyterian Church, 900 West Second St., Clarksdale, MS. Meredith-Nowell Funeral Home (662)624-6218