Gwen Dye
Posted: January 17, 2017
COLUMBUS — Gwen Craig Dye died Jan. 13, 2017. Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Meadowview Baptist Church with the Rev. Cary Sutphin officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be two hours prior to services. Mrs. Dye was born Oct. 2, 1931, to the late Lonnie and Vernice Craig. She graduated from Algoma High School. She was previously employed as a hairdress and as insurance clerk with Chromcraft Corporation in Senatobia. She was a member of Meadowview Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husban,d James Dye; daughter, Sherry Ann Griffin; siblings, Marie Bolen, Molly Jordan, Wilma Davis, Marion Horton, W.L. Craig Jr., Kathryn Lindsey, Imma Jane Craig, Carl “Toby” Craig and Jimmie Nell Shettles. She is survived by her children, Sylvia Griffin Sutphin of Starkville, Dorenda Dye Davis of St. Simon Island, Debbie Dye Taylor of Germantown, Tennessee, and Jim Dye of Moscow, Tennessee; sister, Betty Coggins of DeBach, Louisiana; and three grandchildren. Memorials may be made to the Crusaders for Christ Sunday School Class, Meadowview Baptist Church, 300 Linden Cir., Starkville, MS 39759.