Service today for Deborah Lovell

Services for Deborah “Debbie” Lynn Lovell, 63, of Tupelo are 2:00 p.m. Wednesday (today), January 26, 2022 at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel in Ada. Rev. David Boggs will officiate. Burial will follow at Byrd’s Prairie Cemetery in Tupelo.

Mrs. Lovell passed away Saturday, January 22, 2022, at an Ada hospital. She was born March 10, 1958, at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to James Chester and Mamie Lee Newberry Stringer.

She married Randy Lovell August 20, 1977. He preceded her in death June 22, 2020. Mrs. Lovell was a homemaker and had previously worked as a Registered Nurse at Valley View Regional Hospital.

Survivors include her mother, Mamie Stringer, Coalgate; two daughters, Michelle Balthrop, Waco, TX, and Randi Lovell and fiancé, Tony Corcoran, Tupelo; three brothers, James Randall Stringer and wife Cecilia, Kingsville, TX, Edward Stringer and wife Rhonda, Eufaula, and Tracy Stringer, Cottonwood; two sisters, Donna Stringer, Buxton, Maine and Susan Sells, Missouri; four grandchildren, Becky Corcoran, Logan Balthrop, Austin Coles and Zackery Coles; three great-grandchildren, Fisher Corcoran, Michael Morse and Shaelynn Kuykendall; and other loving relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her father; her husband; two sons, Jackie Balthrop and Tony Lovell; and granddaughter, Courtney Barnoski.

Bearers will be David Pardue, Timmie Owens, Corky Acosta, Tony Corcoran, Marc Chamberlain and John D’Aguanno. Honorary bearers will be her grandchildren and Andy Anderson.