Jackie Sherrill's Mother Passes Away In Oklahoma
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Mississippi State head football coach Jackie Sherrill's mother, Dovie, passed away Monday, April 14, in Duncan, Okla. She would have been 99 years old this August.
Funeral services for Dovie Sherrill will be held Thursday, April 17, at 10:30 a.m., at Don Grantham Funeral Home in Duncan, the MSU head coach's birthplace. Sherrill was raised in Biloxi, Miss.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to The Power Shop, a work place for special children and mentally handicapped adults, P.O. Box 1011, Duncan, Okla., 73534 (telephone number 580-252-4516).