Delia Belle Parham Webb Obituary

Submitted by: David Webb

Source: Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, March 3, 1965

 
Mrs. W.D. Webb, resident of the New Hope Community near Tupelo for 36 years, died at 1:40 p.m. Tuesday in Community Hospital after an illness of four months.  She was 71. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday in East Heights  Baptist Church with the Revs. S.S. Kelly, Walter Duncan and Harold Wilder officiating.  Burial will be in Priceville Cemetery with W.E. Pegues Funeral Directors in charge.
 
Mrs. Webb was born in Prentiss County and was a sales woman for Tillie Murphy dresses.  She was a member of West Ridge Baptist  Church in Lepanto, Ark.  She moved to Lee County when she was a child, and was  the former Miss. Delia Parham.  She was married in 1913 in Lee County to Mr. Webb, who died on  March 23, 1946.
 
Mrs. Webb leaves a daughter, Mrs. Velma Lum of Morton; four sons, Jack and Arthur Webb of Tupelo, Wiley Joe Webb of Blythesville, Ark., and Elmer Webb of  St. Louis; four sisters, Mrs. Gertrude Holt of Vonna,  Texas, Mrs. Ruby Looney and Mrs. Letha Cole of Tupelo and Mrs. Ben Austin of Mooreville; two brothers, Joe and Bill Parham of Tupelo;  23 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.