Sarah Jean Frazier Stribling, age 90, passed away surrounded by her loving family on Wednesday, August 17, 2022, at Choctaw Regional Medical Center in Ackerman, Mississippi. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Saturday, August 20 at Friendship Baptist Church, 5491 Craig Springs Road, Sturgis, Mississippi, with Bro. Jeremy Brown, Bro. Jeremy McCrory, and Bro. Charles Smith officiating. Visitation will be the day of the service at the church from 12 p.m. until service time. Interment will immediately follow in Craig Springs Cemetery.
Jean was born November 7, 1931, to Lewis and Eunice Minafore Frazier in Grenada, Mississippi. She was a long-time member of Friendship Baptist Church. “Miss Jean” was full of love for God and showed it by greeting and introducing herself to visitors at church. She had a “way with words” writing lovely cards to many including those in her Ladies Group that were absent from their meeting. Jean was an awesome cook and enjoyed cooking for her family and anyone who came in.
Jean is survived by her children: Leon Stribling and wife Alice, Loretta McKenzie and husband Jake, Richard Stribling all of Sturgis, and Carol Ray of Starkville; and her daughter-in-law Pamela Stribling also of Sturgis. One of her greatest joys was being “Mama Jean or Mamaw” to her grandchildren: Tania (Tim) Sloan, Thomas Wade (Rhonda) Stribling, Michael Dale McKenzie (Marci Brannen), Suzanne (Bryan) Mattison, Sarah (Drew) Jackson, Jennifer (Shannon) Edwards, Bo (Brandie) Stribling, Chris (Marica) McGinnis, Kevin (Sunny) McGinnis, Carmen Jensen (Zach Watson), Crissy Stribling, Hannah (Eli) Barksdale, and Tori; as well as her 23 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great grandchildren. She also leaves behind her siblings: Ezma Carpenter, Johnny Frazier, and Larry Frazier. She was preceded in death by two sons Mike and Tony Stribling, and daughter Rosemary McGinnis Jensen, her parents and her siblings: Opal Warner, Lee Frazier, L. C. Frazier, Ronnie Frazier, and Ida Belle Frazier.
Serving as pallbearers are Chris McGinnis, Kevin McGinnis, Tate McGinnis, Eli Barksdale, Shannon Edwards, and Bo Stribling. Memorial contributions in honor of Miss Jean may be given to Craig Springs Cemetery Fund, c/o Renee Pinnix Howell, 2406 Wade Road, Starkville, MS 39759.
Services are under the direction of Nowell Massey Funeral Home, 724 North Columbus Avenue, Louisville, MS. Memories and condolences may be shared with the family by signing the guest register at www.nowellmasseyfuneralhome.com.
