Claude Dillingham

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, February 28, 2012

March 9, 1945 – Feb. 26, 2012

NATCHEZ — Memorial services for Claude “Butch” Dillingham, 66, of Natchez, who died Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012, in Jackson, will be at 2 p.m. today at Laird Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. John H. Williams Sr. officiating.

Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until service time today at the funeral home.

Mr. Dillingham was born March 9, 1945, in Brookhaven, the son of Byron Harrison Dillingham and Lillian Marie Pritchard Dillingham. He was the owner/operator of a painting and construction company.

He was preceded in death by his parents and grandparents, Thomas J. Pritchard and Lillie Pritchard.

Survivors include five children, Lisa Dillingham Mayers and husband, G.A., DeAnn Dillingham Sullivan and husband, Alan, Stacy Nelson and husband, Brian, Steve Waldrop and Misty Dawn Searcy Glenn and husband, John; nine grandchildren, Tyler Jordan, Alex Dale, Laura Sullivan, Paul Sullivan, Nicholas Runnels, Jake Nelson, Wesley Waldrop, Lauren Waldrop and Haylee Glenn; three brothers, Carroll “Buster” Dillingham, Rufus Darrell Lazarus and Gerald Lazarus; three sisters, Linda Dillingham Henderson, Glenda Lazarus Brown and Cindy Lazarus Coleman; and a number of nieces and nephews.

Memorials may be made to the Kidney Foundation.

Online condolences may be sent to www.lairdfh.com.