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Dec. 9, 1940 – May 15, 2020

NATCHEZ — Graveside services for Mrs. Dyphane Elot Cauthen were 3 p.m. Monday, May 18, 2020, at Greenlawn Cemetery in Morgantown. Rev. Rajesh Behara will be officiating the services with Franklin Funeral Home in charge of the arrangements.

Mrs. Cauthen, 80, of Natchez, passed from this life on Friday, May 15, 2020, at Promise Hospital in Vidalia. She was born on Dec. 9, 1940, in Winsbrough to Tanley Earnest Smythe and Doris Vallary Tuberville Smythe.

Preceding her in death were her parents; first husband, W.R. “Ronnie” O’Neal; an infant son; infant brother, David Earnest O’Neal; and infant sister, Kimberly Ann O’Neal.

Survivors are her husband of 25 years, Willie Adrian Cauthen; daughters, Sabra Leigh Johnson, Billie Nan Wood and husband, Charles of Jonesville, Norma K. Wheeler and husband C.L. of Baton Rouge, Rhonda O’Neal and husband Donnie, of Felton, Delaware; sister, Marilyn Britt of Vidalia; six grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and a host of family and friends.

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