Collins

Dr. Kenneth Stringer

Funeral Services Dr. Kenneth Stringer will be held at 3:30pm on Sunday, January 29, 2017 in The Wade Funeral Home Chapel. Dr. Stringer was 86 years of age and passed away from this life on Thursday, January 26, 2016 in Hattiesburg. The Reverend Bobby Jones, Brother Dale Sullivan, and Brother Kenneth Dale Sullivan will officiate. Mr. Bill Walton and Mrs. Keri Henley will offer eulogies. David and Kathy Montgomery and Kamryn Sullivan will provide the musical service. Interment will be in the Collins City Cemetery.

Wade Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Pallbearers will be Jay Henley, Lonnie Reeves, Kendall Speed, Dr. Brian Beasley, Dr. Jason Beasley, and Bruce Lancaster.


Kenneth Lavelle Stringer was born in Bassfield on January 19, 1931 to Holly Seymour Stringer and Mattie Mae Miller Stringer. He graduated from Bassfield High School, attended Clark College, and received a Bachelor of Science Degree from Mississippi College. Dr. Stringer earned his Master of Divinity from The New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and his Doctor of Divinity from Luther Rice Seminary.

Dr. Stringer taught history and coached football, basketball, and baseball at Rosedale High School. He served as Pastor at West Marrero Baptist Church (Marrero, LA), Evergreen Baptist Church (Wayne County), New Augusta Baptist Church, and Wesson Baptist Church. Dr. Stringer taught Bible at Copiah-Lincoln Community College and was the Director of Missions at The Covington-Jefferson Davis Baptist Association. Dr. Stringer was currently serving as the Pastor of Union North Baptist Church in Hot Coffee.

He was preceded in death by his mother and father, 2 sisters, Vivian Jones and Ruby Bryant, and 3 brothers, Louis Howard Stringer, Shelby Stringer, and L.E. Stringer.

Survivors include his wife of 64 years, Lena Mary Mooney Stringer of Collins; 2 daughters, Nancy Stringer Sullivan and her husband Dale and Wanda Stringer Reeves and her husband Dan, all of Wesson; 5 grandchildren, Kenneth Dale Sullivan and his wife Kris, Keri Sullivan Henley and her husband Jay, Kathy Sullivan Montgomery and her husband David, Mary Kamryn Sullivan, and Lonnie Danson Reeves.; and 8 great grandchildren, Kenzie and Mary Grace Sullivan, Noah and Jackson Henley, and Ali, Henry, Ruthie, and Rosalie Montgomery; as well a host of other relatives and friends.

Visitation will be Sunday from 1:30pm until 3:30pm at Wade Funeral Home.