Dr. Bob Holifield

Dr. Bob Holifield age 92 of Laurel died Friday, January 10, 2014 at Wesley Medical Center in Hattiesburg. Funeral service will be held Tuesday at 11:00 am at First Baptist Church of Laurel. Dr. Randy Turner, Rev Bert Jones, Dr. Bob Hilbun, Judge Charles Pickering and Mr. William Wells will officiate. Burial will be at Hickory Grove Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 9:00 am Tuesday at the church. Dr. Bob was a member of First Baptist Church of Laurel, where he served as a Deacon. He was active in several professional dental associations, a member of the Mississippi State Board of Dental Examiners, and has served as past president of The Laurel Lions Club. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard. He attended Jones County Junior College as a pre-dental student and later graduated from the University of Tennessee School of Dentistry with a Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1950. He help organized the Mississippi Catfish Farmers Association and served as the first President of the group. He was an avid outdoorsman and enjoyed trophy hunting in Mississippi, Alaska, British Columbia and the Rocky Mountains. He enjoyed bee keeping and marketed his honey in Jones County. He was co-founder of the Honduras Baptist Dental Mission in 1974 and served a year with the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board in the Gambia, West Africa in 1985-86. He is preceded in death by his parents J.C. and Millie Holifield, three brothers and three sisters. He is survived by his wife of 62 years Jeanne Holifield of Laurel; three sons, Dr. Brad Holifield and his wife Cena of Hattiesburg, Mark Holifield and his wife Laura of Houston, TX, Clay Holifield of Laurel; one sister, Dot Cirlot of Moss Point; and four granddaughters, Elise Holifield, Kristin Holifield, Erin Holifield and Hannah Lindsey Holifield and a host of nieces and nephews. Serving as pallbearers will be Men of Loving Action. Honorary pallbearers will be the Adult V Men Sunday School Class. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Dynamic Dyslexia Design, The 3-D School, 120 South George Street, Petal, MS 39465 or Honduras Baptist Dental Mission PO Box 2704 Laurel, MS 39442. To view and sign the family guestbook go to www. memorychapellaurel.com

Dr. Bob Holifield

August 27, 1921 - January 10, 2014