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- Obituary:
Mrs. Tommie Webb Moss died Saturday night at the Baptist Hospital in Jackson after an illness of several months. She was the wife of C. L. Moss (Ambassador Apartments, 5025 Wayneland Drive, Jackson) and first cousin of Mrs. Paul G. Moak, also of Jackson.
Mrs. Moss' dedication as a Christian and patriotic citizen had always been reflected in her church and civic activities. She had had connections with government and political leadership of three states- Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. During the past decade, she had received honorary appointments from two Governors: to the first "Mississippi Ladies' Staff", as Montgomery County Chairman by Governor Ross Barnett, and to the Alabama staff of Colonels by Governor George Wallace. More than 30 years of her adult life were spent in Shreveport, Louisiana, where she had a secretarial position with the State Oil Conservation Department. She later held secretarial positions at the Veterans' Administration in Jackson with the Montgomery County Health Department at Winona, and in Jackson (1960-65) as assistant to the director of the Commission on the War Between the States.
While a resident of Winona, Mrs. Moss had twice been president of the Woman's Missionary Union of the First Baptist Church. She was also twice president of a Federated Hub there, the Winona Woman's Club. Since her return to Jackson to live in the fall of 1969, she had been a member of First Baptist Church here, and of Agathalian Sunday School class.
A member of a well-known Choctaw County family and a native of Ackerman, where she was born June 11, 1900, she was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Tom B. Webb.
In addition to her husband and Mrs. Moak and family, her survivors include her aunt. Mrs. W. M. Baker, a former Jacksonian now living in Nashville, Tennessee, and a number of nieces and nephews.
Services will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock In the First Baptist Church at Ackerman, with tie Rev. Dan Thompson, pastor, and the Rev. T. R. Poole, pastor of Ackerman Methodist Church, officiating. Nephews and a cousin serving as pallbearers will be E. H. Jackmore and George Thompson of Jackson, Bruce Burney, Jr., Finley Moss and Emmett Tullos of Ackerman. and Samuel Moss of Ferriday, Louisiana.
(Published in The Jackson Clarion-Ledger and The Shreveport Times on August 10, 1970)
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