Theodore Dismukes
Posted: March 28, 2010
WEST POINT — Theodore “Sweet” Dismukes, 79, died March 18, 2010, at the North Mississippi Medical Center of Tupelo. Services are today at 2 p.m. at Bryan Union Hall in West Point with Pastor Joe Eggleston officiating. Burial will follow in Green Wood Cemetery in West Point. Lee-Sykes Funeral Home of Columbus is in charge of the arrangements. Mr. Dismukes was born May 28, 1930, to the late Theodore and Mary Lillie Dismukes. He was a business owner and worked at Bryan Foods. He worked at the West Point Police Department for 25 years, and was chief deputy of the Clay County Sheriff’s Department for eight years. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his daughter, Jeannie Range; grandson, Tyrone Lewis; sisters, Ethel McCully and Jessie B. Collins; and brothers, Bobby Dismukes and Robert Bell. He is survived by his daughters, Barnette Dismukes and Rhonda Walker, both of Chicago, Celia Dismukes, of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Tiffany Thomas, of West Point; sons, Theodore and Darryl Dismukes and Thomas Rice, all of West Point, Theodore Spraggins of Ponca City, Okla., and Teranz Dismukes, of Starkville; sisters, Lois Davis and Cassondra Smith, both of West Point, Martha Hammond and Bettye O’Neal, both of Starkville, Marva McClenton, of Washington, and Tinnie Banks, of Artesia; brothers, Richard Dismukes, of Gulfport, and Herman and Donnie Dismukes, both of St. Louis; goddaughters, Mattie Temple and Demetria Ivy; 27 grandchildren and 65 great-grandchildren. Pallbearers are the Clay County Sheriff’s Department and the West Point Police Department.