Willie Griffin
Posted: September 25, 2017
WEST POINT Willie Emmitt “ZooMan” Griffin, 74, died Sept. 19, 2017, at North Mississippi Medical Center in West Point. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Mt. Zion M.B. Church in West Point with Dr. Willie B. Lairy officiating. Burial will follow in Mt. Zion M.B.Church Cemetery. In lieu of visitation from 3-6 p.m. today at Carter’s Mortuary Service Chapel in West Point, the family may come and sign the register book. There will be no public viewing. Carter’s Mortuary Services is in charge of arrangements. Mr. Griffin was born Dec. 24, 1942, in Monroe County, to the late Willie Emmitt Griffin and Magnolia Simmons Burns. He was formerly employed with Babcock & Wilcox. He is survived by his wife, Verneice M. Griffin; daughters, Gwendolyn Marie Rainey, Alta Vernita Edwards and Sherell Monee Drake; brothers, Robert Lee Griffin and J.C. Griffin; sisters, Susie Yates and Emma Griffin; and five grandchildren.