Janis Evelyn Borden Lambert
Janis Evelyn Borden Lambert of Burnsville MS passed from this life on February 26, 2026. A Celebration of Life Service will be Saturday, February 28, 2026 at 2:00 P M at Magnolia Funeral Home – East Chapel with interment to follow in Antioch Freewill Baptist Church Cemetery. Visitation will be Saturday, February 28, 2026 from 12:00 P M until service time at Magnolia Funeral Home – East. Chaplin Roger Wood will officiate the service. Janis and a fellow co-worker were discussing salvation when the lady told her, “Janis you want everybody to be saved!” Janis answered, “I sure do.” When her daughter was very young, her mother’s favorite Bible verse was John 3:16 and she would go over and over it with her children. Her daughter finally told her “Momma, I’ll never learn that”, and Janis told her, “Yes you will.” Just learn a word at a time and it wasn’t long until her children knew John 3:16. Cody and Janis spent many hours with their children camping out on the lake and getting up to a great smell of breakfast cooking over the campfire. One of the many joys Janis loved was God’s creation and all the beauty around us. She put her beautiful paintings in oils, acrylics and water colors. She used her God given talent to capture on canvas what God gloriously created for us to enjoy. She painted old barns, magnolias and beautiful still life’s. Janis loved her family and wanted them all to be with her in Heaven. She devoted her life to her home, children and her husband and now lives with her Lord and Savior. Janis is survived by her husband of 51 years, Charles Cody Lambert; her four children, Buford Cody Lambert, Buddy Brumley (Laurie), Lisa Lambert Smith and Cynthia Sales (Kelvin); six wonderful grandchildren, Eric Smith (Stephanie), Whitney Collums, Clarissa LaBarre (Selby), Taylor Sales, Christopher Sales and Gianna Sales; three great grandchildren, Esme Smith, Stella Collums and Cora LaBarre; very special sister/cousins, Dee Thomas (Bob) and Mazie Borden; very special friends, Randy Mincy, Keelee and Keegan Mincy and Lisa Mincy; her caregiver, Janie Tensley; other relatives and a host of friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, Jay Borden and Ettie Newcomb Borden. Pallbearers will be Eric Smith, Kelvin Sales, Christopher Sales and Randy Mincy. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to Samaritans Purse, St Jude Children’s Hospital or Dr. Charles Stanley In Touch Ministries. Magnolia Funeral Home has been honored to serve the family of Mrs. Janis Lambert.
William Edward LeMay, Sr.
William Edward LeMay, Sr., 90, of Iuka, MS, passed away peacefully February 23rd, 2026. He was born in Memphis, TN, on May 28th, 1935. Bill graduated from South Side High School (Scrappers) in 1953 and was an active member of the Scrappers Club. He spent many years working hard to provide for his family through work with the Missouri Pacific Railroad and Ford Motor Company. Bill worked over 35 years for DuPont as a supervisor for electrical and instrumentation maintenance with expertise in chemical analyzers and process control, and later as an instrumentation consultant. Bill invested his time with his children and in their passions including being an assistant scout master with the Boy Scouts of America for nearly 10 years, coaching boys peewee baseball and girls softball, serving on the cheer booster, and running the McMinn County Band Booster Club. He was passionate in his protection of and advocacy for abused and neglected children and volunteered as an advocate through Court Appointed Special Advocates Corridor of East Tennessee for many years. Bill loved music, singing, church choir, and serving as Choir Director at Georgian Hills United Methodist Church as well as providing comprehensive maintenance services to the church. He dedicated his time and efforts toward the cross erection on Hwy 72 as a part of the Tri-State Cross for Christ endeavor. He enjoyed fishing and hunting deer, vintage cars, tending his scuppernong vines and fruit trees, cooking like Emeril, and rooting and cultivating his roses. On any given day you could find him repairing most anything that needed fixing or working on a project in his shop. Bill had a shared mutual love with all of his dogs for all of his adult life. He adored and cherished time with his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Bill will be remembered for the fierce love he had for his family, his dedication to his faith, his proficiency in fixing and finding solutions for practical problems, his thirst for knowledge, his awareness of political and current world events, and his passion for doing what he believed was right. His encouragement and willingness to lend a helping hand were gifts to everyone who knew him. Bill is survived by his wife of over 41 years, Debra Clark Mann LeMay, of Iuka, MS, his four children, Steve (Becky), Greg (Bonny), Bill Jr. (Alisa), and Carrie LeMay, his six grandchildren: Lindsey Orr, Chelsea Peel, Brittany Bedard, Alexa Longoria, Chris LeMay, and Blake LeMay, and his seven great grandchildren. He is survived by his sisters-in-law, Elaine LeMay, Emily Mann Wooten, and Cheryl Mann Howell, and brother-in-law, John Bryson Mann (Reda). He was preceded in death by his parents John Luther LeMay and Carrie Agnes Pegram LeMay, as well as his siblings that included Ruth Jewel Wiseman, Caroline Louis Bobbitt, John Legget LeMay Jr., Margaret Ann Bickers, and his twin brother Robert (Bob) Louis LeMay. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations to Iuka Baptist Church, Tunnel to Towers Foundation, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. A Celebration of Life ceremony will be arranged in the coming weeks.