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Martha Hood

1944 - 2025

BORN

1944

DIED

2025

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Lee Memorial Funeral Home - Tupelo

5257 Raymond Avenue

Tupelo, Mississippi

UPCOMING SERVICE

Visitation

Dec. 2, 2025

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Lee Memorial Funeral Home - Tupelo

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Martha Hood Obituary

Martha Lynn Hood, 81, passed away Friday, November 28, 2025, peacefully at her home after an extended illness. She was born May 12, 1944, to Haskel Hood and Beatrice Montgomery Hood.

She is survived by five children, Valerie Thunderburk, Rhonda Rayburn, Jeff Rayburn, all of Tupelo, Tracy Justice of Mooreville, and Craig Justice of Mantachie. Nine grandchildren, Christy Irvin, Tony Willnow, Joshua Rayburn, Andrea Rayburn, Zachary Sithideth, Samantha Spencer, Michael Kyle, Meridan Spear, and Ashley Justice; 12 great grandchildren; and two sisters, Eva Dunn and Francis Williams.

She was preceded in death by her parents; five brothers, James Hood, J.R. Hood, Phillip Hood, Harrison Hood, and Jessie Hood; one sister, Virginia Hood Dickey; one grandson, Matt Willnow; and three nieces, Lynn Parker Rushing, Angie Williams Riley, and Jessica Hood Marcy.

Visitation will be from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Tuesday, December 2, 2025, at Lee Memorial Funeral Home. Funeral service will follow at 2:00 pm in the chapel. Entombment will be in Lee Memorial Park. Lee Memorial Funeral Home is entrusted with the arrangements.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by The Daily Journal from Nov. 29 to Dec. 3, 2025.

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Visitation

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Lee Memorial Funeral Home - Tupelo

5257 Raymond Avenue, Tupelo, MS

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Funeral service

2:00 p.m.

Lee Memorial Funeral Home - Tupelo

5257 Raymond Avenue, Tupelo, MS

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