Mr. Sedgie Weldon Sartin

with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Funeral services are at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 20,

2014, at the Lakewood Memorial Funeral Home in Clinton, Mississippi. Interment to follow at

Lakewood Cemetery. Visitation will preceed the service at 1:00 P.M..

Sedgie was bom to Reginald E.Sartin and Hettie Gertnrde Sartin, on January 27, 1926, and grew

up in Tylertown, MS. He was one of five brothers and sisters living during the great depression.

During WWII he began working at Camp Shelby in Mississippi followed by service in welding

Libefty Ships at St. Simon's Islan{ Georgia. He served in the US Army and participated in the

final defeat ofNazi Gerrrany ln1945.

He served with the 95th Chemical Mortar Battalion under the First Army and the defeat of Field

Marshall Model in the Northern Industrial Ruhr Area of Germany. They were then assigned to

General George Patton's Third Army to complete the defeat the Nazi's in the South. He

participated in the liberation of a Prison of War Carnp in Eichstadt that relieved 15,000 allied

prisoners of war. He also participated in the protection and retrieval of 16,000 paintings hidden

in the copper mine of Siegen" Gerrrany popularized by the movie Monuments Men.

After the war, Sedgie married his sweetheart Bennie Jean Brantley on June 15, 1946. They began

thetr Sentimental Journey in Jackson, Mississippi and for sixty-eight years they walked together.

He was a master carpenter for Shepard Homes and worked with James Boone and Bill's

Institutional Commissary for many'yems. flreyia'rsed their three children in tbeBrgedsg_gr

section of Jackson before moving to Cleary, Mississippi. Retirement from Mississippi Valley

Foods found them moving to Carthage, Mississippi and eventually Texas to be near family.

They attended Broadmoor Baptist Church, Cleary Heights Baptist Chtrch, and finally First

Baptist Church of Celin4 Texas. They were deeply loved by all who knew them. He served his

church and our Lord by building cabinets, expansions, and various projects in many of their

churches they attended. There are very few homes in the Jackson area who did not benefit from

his skill and quality workmanship.

He is survived by his bride, Bonnie, sons Ralph Sartin of Prosper, Texas; Danny Sartin (Cathy)

of Bartlett, Tennessee; Jerry Sartin (Terri) of Cedar Rapids,Iowa; seven grandchildren, twelve

great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers the family would invite you to donate to the National Alzheimer's Association

or American Parkinson Disease Association.