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Shirley Diana Gillespie

1955 - 2025

BORN

1955

DIED

2025

FUNERAL HOME

Fields Funeral Home - Okolona

202 North Olive St.

Okolona, Mississippi

Shirley Gillespie Obituary

WEST POINT, MS Shirley Diana Gillespie ,69, died March 04, 2025, at residence in West Point, MS. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Fields Funeral Home. Words of encouragement and condolences may be left for the family at www.fieldsfunerals.com.

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

Published by The Daily Journal from Mar. 4 to Mar. 5, 2025.

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Barbara Gunn Dumas

March 8, 2025

Carolyn Huggins Aaron

March 8, 2025

May your hearts soon be filled with wonderful memories of joyful times together as you celebrate a life well lived. We have been friends since elementary school and would laugh together until tears run from our eyes! Rest on my friend!

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Mar

16

Visitation

12:00 p.m. - 12:50 p.m.

Second Baptist Church

281 Dr Martin Luther King Drive Ext., Houston 38851

Mar

16

Funeral service

1:00 p.m.

Second Baptist Church

281 Dr Martin Luther King Drive Ext., Houston 38851

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Fields Funeral Home - Okolona

202 North Olive St., Okolona, MS 38860

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