Evelyn R. Cogan died Saturday, April 17, 2010, at Promise Specialty Hospital. She was 71.

Mrs. Cogan was born in Anguilla and had lived in Vicksburg for 45 years. She was a retired employee of Durst Discount Drug Stores in Vicksburg. She was of the Baptist faith.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Floyd Reynolds and Lottie Hedrick Abney; her son, Carl Melvin Cogan; her brother, Gene Reynolds; and her sister, Judy French.

Survivors include her husband, Harold “Bud” Cogan of Vicksburg; one daughter, Joyce Cogan Dotson of Vicksburg; one son, Danny Allen Cogan of Vicksburg; one sister, Gail Monk of Brandon; one brother, Hank Reynolds of Duncan; four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Glenwood Funeral Home in Vicksburg with the Rev. Justin Rhodes officiating. Burial will follow at Mound Cemetery in Rolling Fork. Visitation will be from 2 until 5 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Pallbearers will be Michael Cogan, Jimbo Cogan, Steven Lowe, Buddy Poole, Hoyt Hogan and Lamar Manor.

Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Walter Johnston, Tonga Vinson, K.B. Brown, Bobby Raines, Mark Dotson, Kurt Castete, the nursing staff at the Promise Specialty Hospital and the employees of the Warren County Road Department.

Glenwood Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.