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Rev Loyd Calcote

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Rev Loyd Calcote

Birth
Lincoln County, Mississippi, USA
Death
10 Aug 2015 (aged 81)
Brookhaven, Lincoln County, Mississippi, USA
Burial
West Lincoln, Lincoln County, Mississippi, USA GPS-Latitude: 31.5130133, Longitude: -90.6105676
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The funeral service for Reverend Calcote will be 1:00 pm Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at First United Methodist Church with interment in Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery.

Visitation is 5:00-8:00 pm, Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at Riverwood. He will lie in state at the church from 12:00 pm until time of the service.

Rev. Loyd V. Calcote, 81, passed away August 10, 2015 at his residence. He was born July 25, 1934 to Versie V. Calcote and Rutha Posey Calcote. He was a retired Methodist minister and served his country in the United States Army during the Korean War.

Rev. Calcote began his ministry in 1964 and pastored 13 churches over the next forty eight years with two years off for delivering freight traveling in forty two states in the lower forty eight and Canada. He had many hobbies including woodwork and restoring antique vehicles and various back yard projects. He worked in camps at Camp Wesley Pines
and canoe camps on Bogue Chitto. He enjoyed mission trips to various Central America countries and islands.

He received a Bachelor’s Degree and also a course of study through the Emory Theological Seminary.

He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Lamar Calcote and Henry Calcote and sister Mary Lou Barlow.

Those left to cherish his memory are his wife of 52 years, Ann Calcote; daughters, Alesia Calcote, Lana Philipp and husband Charles; sisters, Bernita Reeves and husband Larone, Lanette Curry and husband Allen, Elva Smith and husband Melvin, Willena Varado. He is also survived by two grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Bethel United Methodist Church in memory of Rev. Loyd V. Calcote.

The funeral service for Reverend Calcote will be 1:00 pm Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at First United Methodist Church with interment in Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery.

Visitation is 5:00-8:00 pm, Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at Riverwood. He will lie in state at the church from 12:00 pm until time of the service.

Rev. Loyd V. Calcote, 81, passed away August 10, 2015 at his residence. He was born July 25, 1934 to Versie V. Calcote and Rutha Posey Calcote. He was a retired Methodist minister and served his country in the United States Army during the Korean War.

Rev. Calcote began his ministry in 1964 and pastored 13 churches over the next forty eight years with two years off for delivering freight traveling in forty two states in the lower forty eight and Canada. He had many hobbies including woodwork and restoring antique vehicles and various back yard projects. He worked in camps at Camp Wesley Pines
and canoe camps on Bogue Chitto. He enjoyed mission trips to various Central America countries and islands.

He received a Bachelor’s Degree and also a course of study through the Emory Theological Seminary.

He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Lamar Calcote and Henry Calcote and sister Mary Lou Barlow.

Those left to cherish his memory are his wife of 52 years, Ann Calcote; daughters, Alesia Calcote, Lana Philipp and husband Charles; sisters, Bernita Reeves and husband Larone, Lanette Curry and husband Allen, Elva Smith and husband Melvin, Willena Varado. He is also survived by two grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Bethel United Methodist Church in memory of Rev. Loyd V. Calcote.



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  • Created by: Patti
  • Added: Aug 12, 2015
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150643817/loyd-calcote: accessed ), memorial page for Rev Loyd Calcote (25 Jul 1934–10 Aug 2015), Find a Grave Memorial ID 150643817, citing Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery, West Lincoln, Lincoln County, Mississippi, USA; Maintained by Patti (contributor 47014492).