BALDWYN -- The Rev. Lexer Dee Newby, 69, died Tuesday at the North Mississippi Medical Center, Baldwyn Unit, after a brief illness. He was a retired industrial worker, a Baptist minister and a veteran of World War II.

Services will be at 3 p. m. today at Victory Independent Baptist Church with burial in the Kirkville Cemetery. Salts Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

Survivors include his wife, Nettie Newby of Baldwyn, three daughters, Edith Roberts of Dumas, Wanda Elrod of Tishomingo and Sandy Credille of Baldwyn; three sons, Ronnie Dale Newby and J. C. Newby, both of Booneville and James J. Newby of Baldwyn; four sisters, Clytie Buchanan of Walnut, Ophelia Newby Stapleton of Houston, Texas, and Cora Mae Childress of Memphis, three brothers, J. T. Newby of Ripley, W. C. Newby of Zion, Ill., and John Newby of Booneville; sixteen grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

The body will lie in state at the church.

Tupelo Daily Journal, dated Thursday, May 2, 1989.
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My paternal line which is Uncle Dee's as well: My gg grandparents were Thomas and Elizabeth Reeder. Elizabeth passed away in 1850 of TB, leaving Thomas with houseful of children and twin infants, Margaret and Elizabeth. Two years later, Thomas married Hannah Groggins. One of those twins, Elizabeth (Lizzie), was my great grandmother who married Francis Marion Britt. Francis and Lizzie are the parents of Jessie Jane Britt Newby who is my father's and Dee's mother.

Thomas and his brother, Richard's wife, Selena, each purchased 160 acre tracts of land during the original Chickasaw land transactions in Cherry Creek, Pontotoc County, MS. This is the land where the majority of Jane Britt and William John Henry Newby's children were born. They later gave their address as Springville, Pontotoc, Mississippi.

Bio by Debbie (DWilliams #48190433)