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6A TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2020 CLARION LEDGER JEWEL D. POSEY 10:00 AM Friday Graveside Service Rosemont Memorial Gardens MALCOLM EUGENE WAREN, SR. 11:00 AM Saturday Graveside Service Parkway Memorial Cemetery PAMELA WILSON COLE Services Private WINFRED A. DAVIS Graveside Service 1:00 PM Friday November 20, 2020 Mississippi Veterans Memorial Cemetery Newton PFC THERON CONNOR BISHOP, U.S. ARMY 3:00 PM Tuesday November 24, 2020 The Pointe Church Brandon, MS BILLY PRICE Services To Be Announced SADIE R.

HONNELL Services Private SEBRELL FUNERAL HOME Proud to Be Locally Owned Operated By the Sebrell Family www.sebrellfuneralhome.com 601.957.6946 RAYMOND Rosa Pittman went to be with her Lord and Savior on November 9, 2020. She was a loving wife to her husband, James (Jim) W. Pittman for 29 years before his passing in 1975. She cherished and nurtured her children for 73 years, loved her parents and siblings and cared for her parents until they passed. She assisted in the care of her sister, Ruby Gordon Ward, and her cousin Bea Barnette.

Shewas an activemember of SalemBaptist Church near LearnedMississippi from 1952 until she was no longer able to attend. Her children were raised in the Church and she was so pleased to see that they all became Christians early in life. She held many positions at Salem serving as the clerk for many years and on many Pastor search committees. Rosa was a leader in Hinds County serving in many capacities across Hinds County. She began working with the Agriculture Stabilization Conservation Ser- vice (ASCS) (now the Farm Service Agency) on July 30, 1956.After 32 years of service Rosa retired in December 1988.

During these years she received numerous recognitions and awards. In February of 1989 Rosa Pittman begin serving as the first female ever on the Hinds County Soil andWater Conservation District (SWCD) Board as a deputy commissioner, later as a commissioner, and then as Chairman. Her last term ending in 2010 after serving 5 years as Chairman. Rosa Pittman was an active NRCS Earth TeamVolunteer with the Hinds County Field Office. In 2000 she was selected as the Earth Team Individual Volunteer for the Southeast Region.

She was instrumental with many of the national successes 1st Place Conservation District from the National Association of Conservation Districts, Take Pride in America, Arbor Day honors and other numerous national and state recognitions. She also served as President of the Hinds County Lady Landowners As- sociation, planning committee of the Ladies Conservation Tour, Annual Poster and Essay reception for students participating in the Hinds County SWCD event, and Tree Planting Week. She was dedicated to and loved by the farmers of Hinds County. She was devoted to agriculture and conservation education for students. She was on the Board of Directors of the South CentralWater Association for 12 years.

She hadmany hobbies and interests that kept her busy. Flowers, gardening, ceramics, quilting, traveling, and volunteering were just few of her interests. She was an avid member of the Home and Garden club for years. She was preceded in death by her parents, Emmette Lee Williams and Nona Mae Meador Williams, Her husband James (Jim) William Pittman, and her son, Emmette Lee Pittman. She leaves behind her son James (Jimmy) William Pittman, Jr.

(Vicky), her daughter Frances Marye Pittman Reeves (Mike), her grandchildren Dawn Darene Pittman Harrell, Dustin (Dusty) Lane Pittman (Stacy), Jen- nifer Murray, Micah Lee Reeves, Melissa Marye Reeves Plantier (Eric), and greatgrandchildren James Kyle Delong (Alexis), James (Jimbo) Pittman Harrell, Nicole Murray, and Ari Plantier. Visitationwill be held on 10, 2020 atWright and Fergu- son Funeral Home in Raymond from to graveside service will be held onWednesday at at Salem Baptist Church Cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to One Hope, 100 Castlewoods BLVD, Brandon, MS 39047. Rosa Marye Williams Pittman CLINTON Dr. Bill Russell Baker came to the end of his earthly journey on November 9, 2020.

Dr. Baker was born in a farm house at ShadyGrove in Pontotoc He is the son ofWilliam Joseph and Maudye Russell Baker who preceded him in death. After graduation from high school Dr. Baker continued to pursue his education earning the BS and PhD from Mississippi State University; BD fromNewOrleans Baptist Theological Seminary; and the MA from the University of Mississippi. While studying at theNewOrleans Baptist Theo- logical Seminary, Dr.

Baker worked as a gospel disc jockey and newscaster forWWEZ radio in New Orleans. Dr. Baker was ordained to the ministry by the First Baptist Church in Pontotoc. He served as pas- tor of Cairo Baptist Church in Pontotoc County; YouthDirector of First Baptist Church in Colum- bia, MS, Associate Pastor of First Baptist Church in PastorMantee Baptist Church in Mantee, MS; Pastor First Baptist Church in Cal- houn City and Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Clinton, MS for 23 years. Following his tenure in Baker joined the faculty of William Carey University and later taught adjunct classes for Mississippi College in Clinton.

Dr. Baker served on the Executive Commit- tee of the Mississippi Baptist Convention Board; the Mississippi Baptist Foundation where he was president of that board for ten years; Moderator of Hinds-MadisonAssociation; and preached the state convention sermon. Dr. Baker was inducted in Phi Kappa orary Scholastic Society andOmicronDelta Kappa, National Leadership Honor Society. Dr.

Baker is the author of Catch theVision, The Life of Henry L.Whitfield of Mississippi, published by the University Press of Mississippi Dr. Baker enjoyed playing the guitar and singing. Golf was his hobby. He is survived byHis wife of 58 Jill Applewhite of Columbia, MS. He took pride in his wife Jill who was the drummajorette at Ole Miss, the first Carrier Scholarship and a member of Phi Kappa Phi.

Visitation will be held onWednesdayNovember 11, 2020 from 9:30 am until the 11:00 am service at First Baptist Church Clinton, MS. In lieu of flowers, memorials should be made to First Baptist Church of Clinton. Dr. Bill R. Baker Obituaries The road not taken By Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Acy, Jr, Thomas 91 Black Hawk 08-Nov Williams Lord Funeral Home Allen, Thelma Biggers 85 Winona 08-Nov Oliver Funeral Home, Winona Dr. Bill R. 86 Clinton 09-Nov Wright and Ferguson Blair, Archie 73 Carthage 08-Nov Wilcox Funeral Home Brumley, Jacqueline 93 Columbus 09-Nov Gunter Peel Funeral Home Buchanan, Charles Lester West Point, MS 23-Oct Calvert Funeral Home Sue 84 Yazoo City 08-Nov Stricklin King Yazoo City Jackson, Lesley (Les) 54 Magee 08-Nov Salem Baptist Church in Raleigh McDaniel, Margarett Bates 79 Moorhead 06-Nov Burton Indianola Morrow, Carolyn E.

76 Brandon 08-Nov Ott Lee Brandon, MS Rosa Marye Williams 97 Raymond 09-Nov Wright and Ferguson Funeral Home Stanley Mary Virginia Frazier 82 Kosciusko 07-Nov Jordan Funeral Home Stoner, Jr, Joe 68 Holly Bluff 07-Nov Stricklin King Yazoo City Tanner, Evens Randy 64 Magee 07-Nov Colonial Chapel-Magee Weaver, Frances 90 Jackson 06-Nov Chancellor Funeral Home Byram Wilson, Bill 84 Grenada 08-Nov McKibben Guinn Additional information in display obituaries Obituaries appear in print and online at www.legacy.com/obituaries/ClarionLedger OBITUARIES AND DEATH NOTICES Name Age Town, State Death Date Arrangements easily, holding a lead according to preliminary results Thursday. Political experts say dominance because she ran a brilliant campaign or Espy ran a bad one. Instead, they point to a Mississippi electorate that was at least as suppor- tive of President Donald Trump as 2016, if not more. The results, the experts say, demonstrate a more fundamental truth: Mississippi intense partisanship which also breaks down along racial lines shows no signs of weakening. At election night party, Gov.

Tate Reeves mocked the national who thought a Demo- crat like Espy might have a chance in Mississippi. They understand deep red politics, the gov- ernor suggested, adding voters here were always only to elect a con- servative to the United States conservative policies in state government and the fear of the national Democratic party has expanded our Mississippi GOP Chairman Frank Bordeaux told the Clarion Ledger. He added there is growing energy, in- cluding among young people and people of color, about the Republican party in Mississippi. But Nathan Shrader, a Millsaps Col- lege political science professor, said victory was mostly about Mississippi voters wanting to send Trump back to the White House. Two years ago, Hyde-Smith repeatedly men- tioned her loyalty to Trump and asked voters to pretend he was on the ballot.

This time, Shrader said, she need voters to pretend her name was printed adjacent to his. would speculate that Cindy Hyde- Smith never left her house this election and still ridden Donald coattails to Shrader said. The professor said a late-September poll that had showed Espy only a single point behind Hyde-Smith was mislead- ing. But it helped Espy turn on the fund- raising spigot, convincing donors in other states this race was closer than it ever He raised more than $9 million through mid-October. is not going to be enough to overtake the basic partisan impulses of the American Shrader said, adding that huge fundraising hauls by other Democratic Senate candidates in other states also did not predict their victory.

Orey, a political science pro- fessor at Jackson State University, said the result shows how racially and politi- cally polarized Mississippi remains. Black people almost always vote for Democrats, white people almost always for Republicans. That means a Demo- crat typically gets around of the vote in a statewide race, which lines up with the African American population. Espy stood at as of Thursday. had an uphill battle going Orey said.

ran a textbook campaign, to the T. He did everything sup- posed to do. He had campaign ads, he had endorsements by Obama and other icons from the Democratic party. was no way he could get to the numbers she had based on his constitu- strategy was largely focused on turning more Black voters out, simi- lar to levels when Barack Obama was elected president. But even vote count in 2008 of 555,000 a rec- ord turnout year in Mississippi would not have come close to preliminary tally of at least 631,000 votes this year, the professor noted.

Orey said Mississippi Democrats hoping to attract more white voters, such as last gubernatorial candi- date Jim Hood, might choose to run a campaign that avoids talking about ra- cial issues. But this approach tends to alienate Black voters, he said. Mean- while, a campaign like that does explore issues of race tends to alienate white voters, he said. is a ceiling for Democrats that seems to be in the mid-40s, in almost every said Marvin King, an Ole Miss political science professor. Es- result in 2018, it turned out, more of it being a super, super good Democratic year and Trump on the King said the odds are not in Demo- favor to win a statewide election anytime soon, unless one is facing a Republican candi- date.

Hyde-Smith said after her victory speech that she plans to return to Wash- ington, D.C., on Monday. Her top focus in the coming weeks, she said, will be the pandemic response, which includes ensuring a vaccine will be ready soon. On health care a central issue of the race Hyde-Smith on Tuesday pledged to focus on bringing down drug prices, which she said is a key driver of the rising cost of care. She also men- tioned wanting to protect coverage for those with preexisting conditions should the Care Act be re- pealed. sailing at incumbency for two or three King said.

reelection cycle is typically your hardest, so now that she has weathered that, she can kind of settle into the com- mittees she thinks will be most useful for Mississippi, and try to emulate Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker. a beauty in being a senator just been the Ole Miss professor added. got six years and you have to worry about a thing. And she also proved that she need to raise a whole lot of mon- ey, so she can just focus on her Contact Luke Ramseth at 601-961- 7050 or Follow on Twitter. Election Continued from Page 1A.