Carolyn Thompson Tedder

Visitation will be 5:00-8:00pm, Monday, February 29, 2016, and 11:00am-1:00pm, Tuesday, March 1, 2016, at Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home in Pearl. Funeral services are 2:00pm, Tuesday, March 1, 2016, at the First Baptist Church in Pearl, with interment in Floral Hills Memory Gardens.

She was born Thursday, August 1, 1929, in Big Creek, Mississippi, a daughter of the late L.C. Thompson and Jakie Boland Thompson. She married her beloved husband, Emerson Tedder, Jr., on April 13, 1947 in Calhoun City.

She and Rev. Tedder were called to our Lord’s ministry in 1959. A dedicated pastor’s wife, Mrs. Tedder had a true heart for service to others and faithfully supported her husband during his tenure as pastor to several churches throughout the state. She joyfully taught Sunday School and Vacation Bible School at all of the churches they served, and enjoyed visiting with church members in their homes or during times of sickness or death. At the time of her passing, Mrs. Tedder had been a member of First Baptist Church in Pearl for 12 years. Her loving kindness touched so many lives and will live on in the hearts of all who knew her.

She is survived by her husband of 68 years, Rev. Emerson Tedder, Jr., and daughter, Sheila Tedder, both of Pearl; brother, L.C. Thompson, Jr. of Booneville; sister, Dannie Poe of Pontotoc; sister-in-law Glenda Donoho of Denton, TX; 1 nephew and 2 nieces.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by sisters, Ave June Petremen and Geraldine Dorroh, and sister-in-law, Josephine Hayes.

Memorials may be made to Jackson-Pearl Gideons, P.O. Box 5973, Pearl, MS 39288, the Mission Dignity Program through the Southern Baptist Convention at www.missiondignitysbc.org, or the Lottie Moon Offering of the MS Baptist Convention Board at www.mbcb.org.