Lynda (Conner) Warner

Lynda Conner Warner, a resident of Mt. Pleasant, MS with family members in Fayette County died Wednesday morning, February 1, 2012 at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis where she had been a patient for one week. She was 69 years of age and died following a brief illness.

Services of Remembrance for Mrs. Warner will be conducted at 11 A.M. Saturday, February 4th at the Peebles Main Funeral Chapel in Somerville with Bro. Ralph Brown of Brownsville officiating. Interment will follow in the Mt. Olive Cemetery in the District 15 Community of Fayette County. A visitation for Mrs. Warner will be from 6 to 8 Friday evening at the Peebles Main Funeral Chapel in Somerville. Arrangements will be provided by Peebles Fayette County Funeral Homes and Cremation Center — Main Chapel of Somerville.

Mrs. Warner was born May 7, 1942 in Myrtle, Mississippi. She was preceded in death by her parents, Gene Conner and Ila Moody Conner. She received her education in the Memphis City Public School System and was a lifelong resident of the West Tennessee and North Mississippi areas.

A homemaker throughout her life, Mrs. Warner was also employed in the packaging department of the Vassarette Company in Memphis in earlier years. She was a Christian and was of the Baptist faith. She had been a resident of the Mt. Pleasant Community for the past 32 years and her interests included sewing and woodworking. Mrs. Warner will be remembered as an independent person who enjoyed her home and special times with her family and grandchildren.

Mrs. Warner is survived by her daughter, Cynthia (Cindy) Riggs and husband, Johnny of Brownsville; and two grandchildren, April Sutton of Brownsville and Johnathon Riggs of Brownsville. Mrs. Warner was preceded in death by her brother, Carroll Conner, longtime resident of the District 15 Community in Fayette County.

Those honored to serve as casketbearers will be Johnathon Riggs, Melvin Moody, Ronald Jones, Gerald Jones, Anthony Palmer, Jr. and Jerry Curtis.
Milton Jones will be an honorary casketbearer.

The family requests that memorials be directed to the Haywood County Chapter of the American Cancer Society, c/o Sharlott Osteen at Insouth Bank, P.O. Box 879, Brownsville, TN 38012 or the Fayette County Chapter of the American Cancer Society, c/o Linda Taylor, 16845 Highway 64, Somerville, TN 38068.