Ethan Boleware Obituary
Graveside services for Mr. Ethan Boleware will be conducted at 3:00 pm Sunday, September 14, 2025, at the Mack Cemetery in Prentiss. Mr. Boleware, age 26, passed from this life on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, in Magee. Saulters Moore Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements.
The family will receive friends Sunday afternoon from 1:00 pm until 2:30 pm at Saulters Moore Funeral Home. The funeral procession will depart at 2:30 pm en route to the cemetery.
Ethan was born on May 15, 1999, in Hattiesburg to Johnny Bryan Boleware and Holly Michelle Nations. He had attended Jefferson Davis County Schools as well as Magee and Petal High Schools. Ethan had worked with his Uncle Mike at William Carey College, installing Security Cameras. He will be remembered as one who loved his family fiercely and took pride in being a protector and an awesome big brother to his siblings. In addition to hunting and fishing, Ethan loved to cook. His family holds fond memories of him attempting to master various types of dishes, with his favorite accomplishment in the kitchen being the use of his Wok for Asian food. Ethan was of the Baptist faith.
Ethan is preceded in death by his uncle, who was more like his brother, Bobby Cody Boleware.
His memory will forever be cherished by his father, Johnny Bryan Boleware of Prentiss; his mother, Holly Nations of Carson; paternal grandparents, Johnny and Gloria Boleware of Prentiss; maternal grandfather, Danny Joe Reid of Brandon; maternal grandparents, Steve and Diane McLemore of Columbia; sisters, Madison Nations of Bassfield, Camryn Boleware, Peyton Taylor, Presley Taylor, and brother, Joel Taylor, all of the mother's home; his girlfriend, Crystal Hawthorne of Magee; and nephew, Maverick, along with an expected niece or nephew. Ethan also leaves behind his uncles, Michael Boleware of Prentiss, Garrett Reid of Louisiana, and his aunts, Heidi Etheridge of Birmingham, AL, and Heather Etheridge.
Online condolences and a guest registry are available at www.saultersmoorefuneralhome.com.
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