Obituary – Sherry Ann Taylor Bailey

Published 4:27 pm Monday, May 20, 2019

Sherry Ann Taylor Bailey, 56, passed away peacefully at her home in Courtland, Mississippi, on May 15, 2019.

Funeral services for Sherry will be at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 25, 2019, in the Martin Willingham Memorial Chapel of Wells Funeral Home in Batesville. Interment will follow the service at Forrest Memorial Park. Rev. Fred Eakes and Rev. Eddie Randolph officiated.

Sherry was born November 5, 1962, to Sarah Ann Biggers and the late James Robert Taylor in Marks. She worked as a loan assistant for Mechanics Bank in Water Valley and Oxford before moving to Guaranty Bank and Trust in Batesville, where she was a mortgage lender/loan assistant to the President of the Batesville Branch. Sherry proudly served her country in the U.S. Air Force.  

Those she leaves behind to cherish her precious memory include her loving husband, Jack Bailey of Courtland; children, Christopher Christian and his wife Megan of Oxford, Mississippi, Cody Lindsey and his wife Brittney of Southaven, Mississippi, Thomas Lindsey, Jr. and his wife Dawn of Ingomar, Mississippi,  and Alexis Lindsey of Water Valley, Mississippi; sister, Marjorie D. Oliphant of Byhalia, Mississippi; mother, Sara Ann Barnes of Water Valley; 4 grandchildren, Naveah, Kennedy, Jace, and Christopher Lindsey.

In addition to her father, Sherry is preceded in death by one daughter, Carrie Lindsey, and one brother, Steven Taylor.

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