Willie Gilkey
Posted: April 29, 2022
NOXUBEE — Willie James Gilkey, 62, died April 21, 2022, at Baptist Medical Center.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, at Prairie Point Church, with David Conner officiating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery. Visitation is from 1-5 p.m. today, at Lee-Sykes Funeral Home. Lee-Sykes Funeral Home of Macon is in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Gilkey was born July 18, 1959, in Noxubee, to the late Tommie C. Gilkey and May Bell Jones. He was a member of Prairie Point Baptist Church.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his siblings, James Earl Shambly and Daisy Mallard.
He is survived by his fiancée, Margaret Martin; and siblings, Tommie Gilkey of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Jimmy Gilkey of Jackson, Johnny Gilkey of Aliceville, Alabama, Willie B. Gilkey of Prairie Point, Randy Gilkey and Linda Tabbs of Atlanta, Georgia, and Colleen Clark of Macon.
Pallbearers will be Pierre Donnaby, Robert Stevenson, Robert Taylor, DeMarcus Stevenson, Derrick Stevenson, and Eric Beamon.