Some Uptown Funk Classmates!

Happy New Year Classmates!

Wishing all my classmates a very Happy and Blessed 2018!

Please continue to keep our classmate Ina Lott Whittington in your prayers.  She is still in the nursing home and will have another hip surgery for the 3rd time in the last couple of months. 

Also, keep Theresa Martin Kitowski in your prayers with her health issues and for all our classmates who are suffering from their health issues as well.   

May God Bless all of you in the New Year of 2018!

Prayers Needed For Dot Cunningham & Classmates

Our classmate Ivan Cunningham's wife, Dot, suffered a stroke last Thursday and is in St. Dominic's in Jackson, MS.  As of yesterday, she was doing better but please continue to keep Dot in your prayers as well as Ivan.  

Also, keep our class classmate, Ina Lott Whittington in your prayers.  She is still a patient in Heritage House Nursing Home in Vicksburg but may have to have her 3rd surgery on her hip early January 2018.  

Classmate, Theresa Martin Kitowski needs your prayers as well with her ongoing health issues.  

I will keep you updated as I get the information on their condition.  

1959 Class Ring

I'm proud to say that I still have my S.F.X.A. 1959 Class Ring.  

Obituary ~ Laura Alice Guchereau Portwood

Laura Alice Guchereau Portwood, 78, died peacefully in her home surrounded by her loving family on Monday, Oct. 30, 2017.

Visitation will be held at Riles Funeral Home from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 2, and from 9 to 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 3, at Riles Funeral Home.  Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery.

Alice was born Sept. 24, 1939, and was a life-long resident of Vicksburg. She graduated from St. Francis Xavier Academy in 1957 before attending the University of Mississippi where she was voted “Campus Cutie”.

She was a loving mother to three children, five wonderful grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

Alice hosted every family Christmas and Thanksgiving gathering in her home for more than twenty years.

For decades, Alice worked as the office manager for the City of Vicksburg Water and Gas. She was an active member of Hawkins United Methodist Church and the Vicksburg Art Association.

Like her mother, Alice loved to paint and was wonderful with oil paints. She enjoyed playing bridge and golfing in her younger days.

Alice was deeply rooted in her Vicksburg heritage as the great-great-granddaughter of Dr. William T. and Emma Balfour, John Alexander and Elizabeth Klein, who were instrumental in establishing Vicksburg as a thriving community.

She is preceded in death by Laura Russell Guchereau Jacobson, Charles Miller Guchereau and Bob Portwood.

Survivors include her sister, Pamela Guchereau Melsheimer of Vicksburg; three children, Pamela Portwood McFerrin and her husband, Elvin of Vicksburg, Robert Portwood and his wife, Leigh of Clinton, and Jeff Portwood and his wife, Tracy of Lufkin, Texas; nephew, Ross Melsheimer of Brandon; grandchildren, Barry Barnett and his wife, Beth of Vicksburg, Katie Barnett of Smyrna, Ga., Shelby Portwood of Dallas, Texas, John Portwood of Lufkin Texas, and Marleigh Portwood of Clinton; and great-grandchildren, Hali Klein Barnett, and Lexi and Lili Kistler, all of Vicksburg. 

Pallbearers will be Barry Barnett, John Portwood, Ross Melsheimer, Mike Gatti, Rusty Davis, and Michael Castelane.  

Honorary pallbearers include Windel Wilson, Alice Daniels, and Janice Harrison.  

The family would like to give special thanks to Private Home Care caregivers, Delta Dialysis, and Camellia Home Health and Hospice. 

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that a donation is made in Alice’s name to the Vicksburg Warren Humane Society or Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital.

Prayers For Classmate & Prayer List

Please keep our classmate, Ina Lott Whittington in your prayers.  She will be having another hip replacement next Tuesday.  She had her first one in 2010 and her second one a few weeks ago.  A part had to be made for her upcoming surgery because the last one failed.  Ina is resting at Heritage House Nursing Home in Vicksburg and will be returning there after her surgery to recuperate. 

 UPDATE on Ina Lott Whittington. She is through hip surgery and there was not much bone to work with so she will have to heal for 6 weeks before she can try to walk to let some bone heal around what they put in per her daughter, Rhonda. Thanks for all the prayers and please continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers while she recovers.

Prayer List:

Also, for classmates, Florence Murphey Boren, Theresa Martin Kitowsky and myself, Marian Ann Love.  We are having some health issues as well and for all our classmates who need prayers.  Please contact me at mariandeerhunter@bellsouth.net and will add you to our prayer list. 

Prayers For Our Classmate, Ina Lott Whittington

Our classmate, Ina Lott Whittington is having hip surgery again today in Jackson.  Please keep her in your prayers.  I will be updating you on her progress.

Prayers for all our classmates who are suffering from health issues as well.   May God bless and heal you! 

Update:  10-4-2017 - I talked to Rhonda, Ina's daughter and said the Dr. could not repair her broken hip and had to put in a new hip implant.  She is resting well and will be going to a nursing home in a few days to continue her recovery.  Please continue to keep our classmate in your prayers.

10-7-2017 - Ina was moved to The Bluff Rehab & Healthcare by ambulance from Jackson to Vicksburg.  If you would like to send get well wishes, please send to her home address at 109 Colonial Drive, Vicksburg, MS  39180.  She is recovering well and in good spirits.