Funeral services for Mrs. Ouida Lamkin Bennett, of Duck Hill, were held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 14, at New Hope Methodist Church in Winona, with burial following in the church cemetery. The Rev. Gary Gray and the Rev. Terry Corley officiated the services. Pallbearers were Scott Nichols, Steven Bennett, Matthew Bennett, William Bennett, Mark Sussex, and James Bennett. Honorary pallbearers were Mason Bennett-Sukhram, Cutler Bennett, Henry Bennett, Colton Pollard, Miller Timmons, and Braiden Poole.
Visitation was held Saturday, June 14, from noon. until service time at the church.
Mrs. Ouida Lamkin Bennett, 92, passed away Wednesday, June 11, 2025, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Eupora. She was born in Kilmichael, to John Harvey and Stella Mae Jacks Lamkin on May 14, 1933. She was a member of Eskridge Baptist Church. She enjoyed cooking and crossword puzzles and spending time and playing with her grandchildren. Ouida was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. Love is shown in many ways and hers was with food. She loved to cook for all her family and anyone that stopped by the house. No one left hungry. She made a living cooking at Sunflower and other locations continuing to show her love for all. She has five that call her Mamma but she helped raise her siblings, in-laws, nieces and nephews. She became Mamma to many children. She is loved and adored by all of her children, grandchildren and many others.
She is survived by her daughters, Elva Jean Nichols (Donnie Taylor) of Coffeeville, Stella Annette Sussex (Mark) of West Des Moines, Iowa, and Melinda Carol Ware of Tupelo; sons, Terry Bennett (Melinda Ann) of Kilmichael and John A. Bennett (Vicky) of Maben; sister, Pat Wagner (Duane) of Pa.; brother, Joe Lamkin of Ga.; ten grandchildren; fifteen great-grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews, and in-laws. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, James Terry "Red" Bennett; sisters, Margaret Fultz, Peggy Sue Sasser and Mary Ward Lamkin; brothers, Nathan Lamkin and John Lamkin and son-in-law, Michael "Mike" Ware.
Memorial contributions may be made to New Hope Cemetery fund, PO Box 447, Winona, MS 38967, to the American Diabetes Association, PO Box 7023, Merrifield, VA 22116-7023 or online at www.diabetes.org; to the Alzheimer's Association, 225 N. Michigan Ave, Floor 17, Chicago, IL or online at www.donorservices.alz.org; to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital, 848 Adam Ave, Memphis, TN 38103 or online at www.lebonheur.org
Oliver Funeral Home of Winona handled the arrangements. An online guestbook may be signed at www.ofhwinona.com
