Mrs. Irving was a graduate of McAdams High School and Mississippi Baptist Hospital School of Nursing. Mrs. Irving had a long career working as an RN at the Choctaw County Health Department. She was a member of the Ackerman Presbyterian Church; and later, the Ackerman United Methodist Church.
Jimmie is survived by: three daughters, Jan Bruening and husband Gayle of Madison, Cissy Voight and husband Mike of Nashville, TN, and Pam Marriam and husband Robert of Oxford; five grandchildren, four great grandchildren, one sister, Francis Payne Ward of Durant, one brother, Sam Payne of McAdams, and many beloved nieces and nephews.
Jimmie was preceded in death by her husband of 54 years, Prentiss Brooks Irving; her parents, John Francis and Mattie Moore Payne, six sisters and three brothers.
Memorials may be made in memory of Mrs. Irving to French Camp Academy in French Camp, MS or Palmer Home for Children in Columbus, MS.