Dessie Hollingshead
Posted: June 23, 2017
STARKVILLE — Dessie Lee “Baby” James-Hollingshead, 75, died June 18, 2017, in Starkville. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Blackjack Missionary Baptist Church. Interment will follow at Petty Cemetery. Visitation is from 2-6 p.m. to today at West Memorial Funeral Home. West Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. She is survived by her two daughters, Letha Hollingshead-Moore of Los Angeles, California and Connie Petty of Starkville; one son, James Hollingshead, Jr. of Smyrna, Georgia; four sisters, Jessie Lee James-Ellis and Marguerite Moore, both of Starkville, Ella Louise Coe and Freddie Marie Smith, both of St. Louis, Missouri; two brothers, Melvin Clark and Douglas Clark, both of Starkville; and seven grandchildren.