Mary Corkren
Posted: February 25, 2018
Mary Young Wilson Corkren, age 85, of Columbus, MS, passed away February 22, 2018, at her residence. Graveside services will be Sunday, February 25, 2018, at 2:00 PM at Friendship Cemetery with Rev. Harold Lollar, Jr. officiating. Memorial Gunter Peel Funeral Home & Crematory College St. location is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Corkren was born April 19, 1932, in Columbus, MS, to the late Horace and Mary Gunter Young. She was a graduate of the Lee High School Class of 1950 where she was Most Beautiful, Senior Maid, and Best Dressed. Mrs. Corkren retired from Bellsouth and worked a number of years at National Bank of Commerce and Baptist Memorial Hospital. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husbands, Thad S. Wilson and Hubert “Bozo” Corkren, sister, Julia Lollar and great grandson, Cody O’Callaghan. Survivors include her son, James W. “Jim” Wilson and his wfie Kay of Columbus, MS, daughters, Marilyn O’Callaghan and her husband Johnny of Caledonia, MS, and Anna Sanders of Columbus, MS, sister, Marion Verlin of Atlanta, GA, 8 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren, and 2 great great grandchildren. Memorials may be made to the Columbus Lowndes Humane Society, P.O. Box 85, Columbus, MS, 39703.