AMORY - Services for Jamie Jordan (Peggy) Thornton, 81, who died Monday, January 23rd at Gilmore Memorial Regional Medical Center in Amory, will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, January 27th in the Tisdale-Lann Memorial Aberdeen Chapel with Rev. David Harrell officiating. Burial will be in Oaklawn Memorial Gardens.

  Mrs. Thornton was born in Ashland, Mississippi to James Franklin Jordan and Marietta Reid Jordan. She has lived in Nashville, Tennessee, Kansas City, Kansas, Memphis, Tennessee, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Aberdeen, Mississippi and Amory, Mississippi. She graduated from Ashland High School and attended Northeast Mississippi Community College. Mrs. Thornton attended First United Methodist Church and Faith Presbyterian Church. She was a member of Daughters of the American Revolution. She worked as secretary of The Upper Room and was a homemaker, wife and mother.

  She leaves a daughter, Jamye Kaye Thornton Doherty and husband, David, of Amory; a niece, Dianne Wilson Hammack and husband, Henry, of Aberdeen; three grandchildren, Jordan Doherty, Christian Doherty and Trey Doherty.

  She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Robert Andrew Thornton, Jr.,; a sister, Virginia Jordan Wilson; a brother, Dallas  Reid Jordan.

  Pallbearers will be Jake Brownlee, Jesse Gillentine, Justin Posey, Unterior Gladney, Corbin White and O'Darius Lowe.

  Visitation will take place from 4:30 until 7:30 p.m., Thursday, January 26th, at the funeral home.

  Memorial contributions may be made to:

  The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
  MS/LA Chapter - Mississippi
  408 Fontaine Place, Suite 104
  Ridgeland, MS 39147