Amos Hood, Jr.

AMOS HOOD, JR., WAS BORN AUGUST 26, 1953, IN MERIGOLD, MISSISSIPPI, TO THE LATE AMOS HOOD, SR. AND DELLA HOOD.  HE ACCEPTED CHRIST AT AN EARLY AGE AND UNITED WITH THE HOUSE OF PRAYER CHURCH IN MEMPHIS TN. 

AMOS RECEIVED HIS FORMAL EDUCATION AND GRADUATED FROM NORTHSIDE HIGH IN MEMPHIS TN AND SOON AFTER, HE TOOK UP A TRADE IN PAINTING AND WORKED FOR METHODIST LEBONHEUR OVER THIRTY YEARS, UNTIL RETIREMENT. HE LOVED TRAVELING, WATCHING TELEVISION AND LISTENING TO MUSIC

HE WAS UNITED IN HOLY MATRIMONY TO JOANN GILLOM, AND THEY LIVED A WONDERFUL LIFE. THEY WERE TOGETHER UNTIL DEATH DID THEM PART. AMOS DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THURSDAY, JULY 27, 2023, AT BAPTIST MEMORIAL NORTH MS SURROUNDED BY FAMILY.

THOSE LEFT TO CHERISH HIS MEMORIES, ARE: HIS LOVING WIFE OF 40 YEARS: JOANN GILLOM HOOD; ONE DAUGHTER: TALORIS HOOD OF MEMPHIS TN; TWO SONS: DEXTER GOOLSBY OF TUPELO MS, RECO CAMPBELL (LANDY) OF OXFORD MS; NINE GRANDCHILDREN, FIVE GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. SISTERS IN LAW: LENA PORTER OF MEMPHIS TN; SHIRLEY (CHESTER) ISOM OF HOLLY SPRINGS MS, BETTY GILLOM, ETHEL GILLOM, EARLINE HUDSON, AND RUBY GILLOM ALL OF OXFORD MS; TWO BROTHERS IN LAW: BARNEY GILLOM, OF CHARLESTON SC AND LARRY GILLOM OF OXFORD MS,  PLAY BROTHERS: ALVIN DORTCH OF MEMPHIS TN AND DAVID ISOM OF ABBEVILLE MS.

AMOS IS PROCEEDED IN DEATH BY HIS MOTHER, FATHER AND ONE GREAT GRANDCHILD.