Kenneth Noel Reed MD

Dr. Kenneth Noel Reed of Ridgeland, MS passed away Saturday, March 7, 2015. Visitation is Tuesday, March 10 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Parkway Funeral Home in Ridgeland, followed by a graveside service at Hickory Grove Cemetery in Inverness, MS at 3:00 p.m.Kenneth was born November 29, 1938. He graduated from Belzoni High School, the University of Mississippi in pre-med, the University of Mississippi Medical School, followed by a residency at the University of Tennessee in otolaryngology. He completed a fellowship in facial plastic surgery at McDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. He then returned to Jackson, MS in 1971 and was a founding member of the Ear, Nose and Throat Surgical Group in Jackson, MS.He was an avid fisherman who loved catching trophy bass with family and friends from his lakes in Pickens, MS.His love for fishing was only eclipsed by his passion for duck hunting in the Mississippi Delta where he would skillfully call in thousands of ducks for all his friends, young and old.He was preceded in death by his parents, James Noel Reed and Hallene Laman Reed.He is survived by his wife, Lisa Barnhill Reed; children, Kenneth Noel Reed, Jr. (Mollie), Jamie Reed Clay (Bryan), Kristin Reed Merrell (William), Jennifer Reed Redding (Jeff), Katherine Hallene Reed, and Laman Bailey Reed; Barbara Reed Day; grandchildren, Noel and Ike Reed, Reed, Matthew and Kelsey Clay, Mollie, Marie and Mary Rodgers Merrell, Mitch and Lynn Redding.Memorials may be made to We Will Go Ministries, 799 N. Congress Street, Jackson, MS 39202 or Blair E. Batson. -