Evelyn Mangum

Published 10:08 am Friday, December 2, 2016

Evelyn Mangum died Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, at the Merit Health River Region Medical Center. She was 93.

A lifelong resident of Vicksburg, she was formerly employed as a nurse’s aide and was of the Baptist faith. Evelyn loved reading, walking and caring for others.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, Vernon Newcomb and Richard E. Mangum and her daughter, Virginia Newcomb McQuirter.

She is survived by her two daughters, Alletha (Bobby) Tadlock and Linda (Greg) Beech, both of Brandon; her three grandchildren, Jerry Keyes, Rusty Gray and Paige (Brian) Loft; and four great-grandchildren.

Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016, in Greenlawn Gardens Cemetery with Rodney Bounds officiating. Visitation will be at Glenwood Funeral Home from 10 a.m. Saturday until the hour of the service.