Junie Gentry
Posted: April 12, 2009
Junie K. Gentry, 96, died April 9, 2009, at Oktibbeha County Hospital–Starkville. Services were Saturday at 3 p.m. at Bethesda Baptist Church with the Revs. James Mills, Charles E. Smith and Lloyd Humphrey officiating. Burial followed at the church cemetery. Welch Funeral Home of Starkville was in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Gentry was a homemaker, a retired owner of Gentry’s Store at Oktoc and a member of Bethesda Baptist Church and Oktoc Garden Club. She was preceded in death by her husband, Hilman O. Gentry; and daughter, Elizabeth Wooten. She is survived by her daughters, Jane Herrington and Christy Gentry, both of Starkville; sons, Wayne, Hilman and Joey O. Gentry, all of Starkville; 15 grandchildren and 41 great-grandchildren. Memorials may be made to Bethesda Baptist Church or Heart to Heart Hospice.