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September 24th, 2011

MAXINE CORSON
Maxine Jones Hendricks Corson, 85, died Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011 at King’s Daughters Hospital.
Funeral services were Thursday at the Stricklin-King Funeral Home Chapel. Burial followed at Short Creek Cemetery.
Mrs. Corson was born Oct. 27, 1925 in Yazoo County to David and Maggie Mae Kinard Jones. She was a retired data processor for Mississippi Chemical Corporation and a member of First Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her siblings, Dudley Jones, Emmett Jones, Elsie Jones, Edward Jones, M.D. Jones and Clara Mae Ealie.
Survivors include her daughters, Sherry Hoffer (Floyd) of Nancy, Ky. and Pam Infanger (Neil) of Sarasota Springs, Utah; sons, Arthur D. Hendricks Jr. of Monroe, La., Larry Hendricks (Shirley) of Georgia and Michael D. Hendricks of Atlanta, Ga.; a sister, Ethel Alexander of Bentonia; a brother, Sam “Bud” Jones of Yazoo City; 11 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Short Creek Cemetery Fund.

WALDO LEAL
Leonel G. “Waldo” Leal, 73, died Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011 at University Medical Center in Jackson.
Funeral services are today at 11 a.m. at the Stricklin-King Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Glenn Warrington officiating. Burial will follow at Glenwood Cemetery.
Mr. Leal was born Jan. 28, 1938 to Manuel and Rosa Guerra Leal of Texas. He was a farmer and a Catholic.
Survivors include a brother, Johnny Mexican of Satartia; three sisters, Julie Silva of Yazoo City, Norma Gonzales of Satartia and Lily Walker of Bentonia; and several nieces and nephews.
Serving as pallbearers are Lonzo Hood, Jason Earl Mathis, Stevie “Chico” Leal, Ricky Shivers, Jamie Leal and Charles Leal.

MARGARET TUTTLE
Margaret Tuttle died peacefully with her family at her bedside at The Blake in Ridgeland, Mississippi. She was born March 11, 1921 in Las Cruces, New Mexico, the only child of Ida Campbell Fowler and Raymond Green Fowler. Her mother died in childbirth and Margaret was raised in Yazoo City by her Aunt, Virginia Ruth Campbell and her grandmother, Jenny Thompson Campbell.
She graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1943 with a BA degree. She was president of Delta Zeta sorority, loved to dance and golf and excelled at Bridge.
In 1944 she married David Sanford West and they moved to Connecticut where he was doing his basic training for the navy. Before he shipped out to the Pacific he was stricken with a rare neurological disease and died.
Margaret returned to Yazoo City, where she met Douglas A. Tuttle, who was supervising construction of Mississippi Chemical. They married in 1951 and had four children, Ruth Campbell ( Rand Williams), Patricia Ann (Ed Arostegui), Douglas, III, and Margaret Hayes (Buster Tyer). Other survivors include her four grandchildren: Maggie Corley, Wilson Jones, Sara Arostegui and Olivia Arostegui. She was pre-deceased by her grandson Thomas Jones.
Margaret enjoyed a lifelong involvement with the oil and gas business in Mississippi. She was devoted to her family, her friends and Yazoo City. She was past-president of the Junior Auxiliary, Women of the Church and the Ladies Golf Association and a member of the Yazoo City zoning board and belonged to the First Presbyterian Church since childhood.
Her children want to express the deepest gratitude to their mother’s longtime devoted caregivers: Renee Ward, Lisa Caston, Shannon Carlton, Michelle Kirk, Carol Porter, Sue Guillot, Mary Jane Peaster, Donna Posey and Carolyn Robinson, and to the compassionate staff of The Blake at Township, where she enjoyed so many friends and happy occasions.
Visitation will be held at the First Presbyterian Church in Yazoo City, from 1-3 on Wednesday September 28, with services to follow at 3 and interment at Glenwood Cemetery. Stricklin-King Funeral Home will be handling the arrangements.
The family requests that memorials be made in the name of Margaret Tuttle and Thomas Jones to the youth program at First Presbyterian Church, 231 N. Washington St., Yazoo City, MS 39194.

 
Letters to the editor

Dear Editor,
I realize after this letter is published that my daughter will probably never have the opportunity of making the Dixie League All-Star team.  
However after praying and pondering over this situation, and because she has never made the team in all of her five years of playing (which is a joke) I have nothing to lose.  
I am normally a pretty passive person, but I guess the older I get the more I see and understand the cruel shenanigans that many of our kids are faced with.  But mostly, the older I get the more I have learned to become more vocal in the things I feel are just not right.  
The Dixie Youth Girls Team is one that I have held close to my heart because the one child that I have has been a part of this league since she was old enough to participate.  Now at first I did not make a big issue out of the All Star Selection process because each year I was given a so-called excuse as to why my child did not make it.  
Her first year and at age four, she was just this cute little girl scrambling around like the others with no clue as to what to do.  As she got older and more serious, I realized that this is really becoming her passion and not tooting my own horn but she’s pretty darn good.
Now again I know that she may never make the team after the comment I am about to make, but who cares.
This league is one of the most biased leagues I have ever, ever encountered. Parents, many of our kids are being overlooked because the selection process is too political and a big joke.  I do not think that I could sleep at night knowing that I (the coaches) put my child in a position that I know they do not deserve.  
For years and in talking to other parents, coaches have been allowed to nominate their child(ren) and other coaches’ children, which is so unfair.   Now I know that I am not the smartest person in the world, but I do know what ALL-STAR means. But for those of you who do not, it means “consisting of athletes chosen as the best at their positions from all ... consisting entirely of star performers.” To break it down further; the BEST players!!!
We as parents need to be more involved in ensuring that there are policies and procedures in place and that they are adhered to.  We want the best children to represent our city not those children that you want to be recognized to feed your own egos.  
Coaches should not be allowed to nominate their children or make deals behind closed doors.  ALL-STAR selections should be based on statistics and privy to those children who have worked hard and diligently all summer. Some of you coaches should be ashamed of yourselves with your hidden agendas. I personally do not see how you sleep at night.    

Zelda B. Baker
Concerned Parent

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