E.B. Patterson Dies at Monticello
Was a prominent state Attorney
Monticello –Funeral services will be held in the Monticello Methodist church at 10:30 Monday morning for Edmund Burke Patterson, 71, dean a Monticello bar and senior member of the legal firm of Patterson and Patterson Monticello.
Services will be conducted by the pastor of the Methodist church, the Rev. J. D.Vardaman. burial will be in the Patterson family plot in the town cemetery.
Mr. Patterson had practice law in Monticello for more than 50 years. He is a graduate of Mississippi State College and Cumberland University. For many years, he was the attorney for the GM &O and the Mississippi Central Railroad. He had been the county attorney and had also served as an attorney for the Board of Supervisors. He was, at the time of his death, President of the tri-county bar association, composed of the counties of Lawrence, Lincoln and Coppola.
Survivors include four sons, Thomas McEvoy Patterson, Chapel Hill N. C., A. Harvey Paterson, St. Louis Missouri, Judge Neville Patterson, chancellor of the 13th Chancery District; and Jean Pershing Patterson, both of Monticello, 10 grandchildren.
Five sisters, Mrs. Maybelle Williams, Delhi, Louisiana, Mrs. George Prestridge, Bogalusa, Louisiana, Mrs. Peter Armstrong, of the Arm community; Mrs. H.O. Allen, Silver Creek; Mrs. Monroe Smith, Bluefield West Virginia.
His brother, Hiram J Patterson, state highway commissioner, was killed in an automobile accident in 1943 and his wife Irma Goodell McEvoy died in 1925.
E.B. Patterson Dies at Monticello
Was a prominent state Attorney
Monticello –Funeral services will be held in the Monticello Methodist church at 10:30 Monday morning for Edmund Burke Patterson, 71, dean a Monticello bar and senior member of the legal firm of Patterson and Patterson Monticello.
Services will be conducted by the pastor of the Methodist church, the Rev. J. D.Vardaman. burial will be in the Patterson family plot in the town cemetery.
Mr. Patterson had practice law in Monticello for more than 50 years. He is a graduate of Mississippi State College and Cumberland University. For many years, he was the attorney for the GM &O and the Mississippi Central Railroad. He had been the county attorney and had also served as an attorney for the Board of Supervisors. He was, at the time of his death, President of the tri-county bar association, composed of the counties of Lawrence, Lincoln and Coppola.
Survivors include four sons, Thomas McEvoy Patterson, Chapel Hill N. C., A. Harvey Paterson, St. Louis Missouri, Judge Neville Patterson, chancellor of the 13th Chancery District; and Jean Pershing Patterson, both of Monticello, 10 grandchildren.
Five sisters, Mrs. Maybelle Williams, Delhi, Louisiana, Mrs. George Prestridge, Bogalusa, Louisiana, Mrs. Peter Armstrong, of the Arm community; Mrs. H.O. Allen, Silver Creek; Mrs. Monroe Smith, Bluefield West Virginia.
His brother, Hiram J Patterson, state highway commissioner, was killed in an automobile accident in 1943 and his wife Irma Goodell McEvoy died in 1925.
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