Jimmy Luther Gross, age 77, passed away Friday, April 14, 2017 at the Yalobusha Nursing Home in Water Valley, MS. Born to the late Joseph Newton Gross and Willie Edward Dennis Gross in Panola County on February 10, 1940, he grew up doing various jobs and was always willing to lend a helping hand to others. He was a man of little education, but he never minding working, even if it was digging a grave by hand or working on an oil rig. He enjoyed teasing his family, and he loved his daughter, Lynn, and his nieces and nephew. His siblings enjoyed their loving relationship.
Services are planned for Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 2 PM in the Henry Chapel of Seven Oaks Funeral Home. Visitation will be from 12 noon until service time with Bro. Freddie Moorman and Bro. Virgil Nelson officiating. Burial will be in Walker Cemetery with Terry McCullar, Tony Arbuckle, Dwight Arbuckle, Gerald Redwine, Kenny Arbuckle, and Cameron LaCook serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be Charlotte Thornton and Jeri McClome.
He is survived by his daughter, Stacy Lynn Gross Bumphis (Robert) of Tupelo, MS; one sister, Pat Bynum of Water Valley, MS; two brothers, Joseph William Gross of Garden Grove, CA and Joe Curtis Gross (Bobbie) of Courtland, MS; one sister-in-law, Pearly Gross of East Peoria, IL; and three grandchildren, Wanda Bumphis, Peyton Bumphis, and Mischa Bumphis.
He was preceded in death by one sister, Betty Jeanette Redwine; and three brothers, John Thomas Gross, James Edward Gross, and Prentiss Wayne Gross.