Carol Phelps
Posted: February 23, 2018
STARKVILLE — Carol Kirkland Ford Phelps, 62, died Feb. 21, 2018, at University Medical Center in Jackson. Services will be 2 p.m. today at Welch Funeral Home of Starkville. Burial will follow at Beersheba Cemetery of Columbus. Visitation will be today from noon-2 p.m. at the funeral home. Mrs. Phelps was born in Columbus on March 26, 1955, to the late William Benjamin Ford and Helen Virginia Fondren Ford. She was formerly employed by Franklin Academy as a teacher’s assistant. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, William B. Ford Jr; and former husband, Joe Cade White Jr. She is survived by her husband, Wayne Phelps of Pheba; daughters, Laura Hoffman of Europa and Ginnie Cody of Starkville; sons, Shank Phelps of Maben, Steven Phelps of Starkville and Tommy Phelps of Mathiston; brother, John Ford of Columbus; 14 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.