Nora Maxine Frye

Nora Maxine Frye, 79 of Caledonia, MS passed away Monday, February 1, 2016, at North Mississippi Medical Center, Tupelo, MS.

Visitation will be Saturday, February 6, 2016, from 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM at Kolola Springs Baptist Church, Caledonia, MS.  A funeral service will follow at 2:00 PM with Bro. Don Harding officiating and Bro. Mel Howton assisting.  Interment will be in Egger Cemetery, Caledonia, MS with Lowndes Funeral Home directing.

Mrs. Frye was born November 30, 1936, to the late James Charlie and Audrey Maxine Welch Culpepper in Hamilton, MS.  She retired from United Technologies as an assembly worker after 26 years of service.  Mrs. Frye was a member of Kolola Springs Baptist Church where she was a deacon's wife, choir member and on the building and grounds committee and the hospitality committee.  She loved to read and watch TV and enjoyed gardening.  Mrs. Frye also  loved her grandchildren.   In addition, to her parents, Mrs. Frye was preceded in death by her husband Coy Benson Frye in 2008.

Mrs. Frye is survived by her sons – Rickey Frye, Caledonia, MS, Mike Frye, Braydenton , FL and Joey (Kim) Frye, McGee, MS; daughters – Diane (David) Rains, Mountain Home, AR and Sheila (Russell) Wessel, Ft. McCoy, FL; 6 grandchildren – Tayler, Frye, Casey (Nick) Anderson, Daniel (Madoka) Lastinger, Christopher Frye, Erica Frye and Aneliese Frye; 5 great-grandchildren – Cameron Frye, Cheyenne Reigles, Sammy Reigles, Melody Frye and Dan Lastinger and brother – Charles (Jackie) Culpepper.

Pallbearers will be Gene O'Neil, Jim Fain, Stacy Brown, Mike Gambal , Christopher Frye and Tayler Frye; honorary pallbearers will be Deacons of Kolola Springs Baptist Church, Jerry Spears and Al Griffin.

Memorials may be made to North Mississippi Medical Center Hospice, 422 E. President St., Tupelo, MS  38801.