James Murphy Jr.
Posted: March 7, 2009
AMORY — James Rickey Murphy Jr., 26, died March 5, 2009, in Fulton. Services were Saturday at 3 p.m. at E.E. Pickle Funeral Home Chapel in Amory with Tim McMillan officiating. Burial followed Lann Cemetery. He had lived in Salineville, Ohio, Fulton, and in Amory for the past year and a half. He was employed by Max Home in Fulton and attended New Hope Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Gerald and Elizabeth Spencer and Walter and Jessie Murphy. He is survived by his wife, Lacy Vandiver Murphy, of Amory; stepfather and mother, Wayne and Meriel Spencer Booker, of Ripley; father, James Rickey Murphy Sr., of Booneville; stepbrother, Rusty Booker, of Madison; sister, Danielle Murphy, of Fulton; and stepsister, Patricia Myrick, of Kiln. Pallbearers were Deangelo Gibson, Thomas Kennedy, Kirk Luker, Wes Kirkpatrick, Brandon Adams, Mark Lambert and Brent Sides.