Frank Leigh
Posted: September 7, 2014
COLUMBUS — Frank Melancthon Leigh, 97, died. Sept. 6, 2014, at the Leighcrest. A private graveside service will be held. Memorial services will be held at a later date. Gunter and Peel Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Mr. Leigh was born Nov. 28, 1916, in Meridian to Beverly Matthews Leigh and Annie Wade Leigh. He was a graduate of S.D. Lee High School and Mississippi State College. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. He was formerly employed with Buick. He was preceded in death by his daughters, Martha Polk Leigh Jr. and Mary Leigh Blalock; siblings, Beverly Matthews Leigh Jr., Mary Dudley Leigh Pugh, Robert Turner Leigh, Virginia Leigh Cox and Jack Pendleton Leigh. He is survived by his wife, Martha Polk Leigh; daughters, Frances Leigh McCarty and Beverly Leigh Truslow; eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.