Donald Bigsby

MR. DONALD BIGSBY Mr. Donald L. Bigsby, 83, retired furniture company executive, died Tuesday, December 23, 2003 at North Mississippi Medical Center. Graveside services will be conducted Saturday at 11:00 a.m. at Rose Hill Cemetery. The family will visit with friends Saturday from 10:00 to 10:45 a.m. at Oakes & Nichols. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. He served in the U. S. Air Force during World War II and was a member of the Gaston Baptist Church in Booneville, Mississippi. He was a former employee of General Motors Corporation, Jordan Industries and American Seating Company which took him to Booneville to make his home. Survivors include his wife, Betty Adams Bigsby of Booneville; two daughters and sons-in-law, Pattie B. and Charles Blackburn of Columbia, Lisa and Tom Gordon of Centerville; a son and daughter-in-law, Terry Wayne and Janet Peay of Bethpage; a sister and brother-in-law, Alma and Don Barr of Muir, Mississippi; two brothers, Claude Bigsby, Jr. of Grand Rapids, Michigan and Jack L. Bigsby of Fort Worth, Texas; ten grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, Claude and Edith Dreger Bigsby; his first wife, Vivian Way Bigsby and a son, Robert L. Bigsby. Pallbearers are Anthony Blackburn, Terry Peay, Mike Stacy, Charlie Blackburn, Tom Gordon and Rob Bigsby.