Jennie Mae Higginbottom

Mrs. Jennie Mae Higginbottom, 77, transitioned on Thursday, December 11, 2025, in Batesville, MS.

Mrs. Jennie Mae Norphlet was born October 21, 1948, to Gertrude Tyson Smith and Earnest Lee Norphlet, Sr., in Lafayette County, Oxford, Mississippi.

Mrs. Jennie Mae Jones-Higginbottom was a member of Clear Creek Missionary Baptist Church, in Oxford Mississippi, now under the leadership of Dr. David Anderson, Sr.

Mrs. Jennie Mae Jones-Higginbottom was preceded in death by her husbands L.V. Jones and Jessie Dorris Higginbottom and her daughter Mary Ann Jones.

Mrs. Jennie Mae Jones-Higginbottom leaves to cherish her memories two sons: James Christopher Jones and Roy Lee Higginbottom both of Oxford, MS;  one daughter: Mary Lee Higginbottom of Memphis TN;  two sisters: Annie Mae Robinson and Rhonda Mae Norphlet both of Oxford, MS; four brothers: Earnest Lee Norphlet, Jr., Roy Lee Norphlet and John Fitzgerald Norphlet all of Oxford, MS and Robert Lee Norphlet of Water Valley, MS, and a  host of grand-children, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and friends.

Memorial service will be held on Monday, December 22, 2025, at 11:00 a.m., at Clear Creek M.B. Church, 35 County Road 313, Oxford, MS  38655.

Arrangements entrusted to Serenity Funeral Home of Holly Springs, MS

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