Lucille Youngblood

Published 11:17 am Thursday, October 24, 2024

Sept. 4, 1931 – Oct. 21, 2024

MADISON, MS – Lucille Banks Guin Youngblood passed away on Oct. 21, 2024. She was 93 years old.

Lucille was born on Sept. 4, 1931, to Wilma and A.B. Guin. She was raised in Columbus, MS, and was the youngest of six children. She graduated from Lee High School in Columbus, where she played basketball and worked at the candy counter at Woolworth’s on the weekends. She met her husband and the love of her life, Walton Youngblood, during that time. After they married and Walton returned from service in Korea in the early 1950s, Lucille and Walton moved to Natchez where they raised their daughters, Vicky and Leah.

Lucille was a cosmetologist and owned her own beauty shop for many years—the first in a duplex on Miller Avenue, and the second in a salon behind her home. While in Natchez she was active in many civic and social groups, including The Natchez Garden Club. Lucille often volunteered at the Pilgrimage, alongside her husband, selling tickets or working the doors. Lucille loved fashion, jewelry, proper manners, and current trends. She was an excellent hostess to her friends, her family, and even tourists, who she often welcomed into her home during Pilgrimage.

She was a member of Jefferson Street United Methodist Church where she faithfully sang in the choir. She enjoyed camping and traveled much of the United States in an Airstream with her husband. She loved to picnic, play dominoes, and do puzzles with her children and later with her grandchildren.

In 1999, Lucille and Walton moved to Madison, MS to be closer to their daughters. Lucille continued to be active socially in local clubs and sang in the choir at Christ United Methodist Church. She was a member of the Daughters of the Nile and was especially proud of being elected Queen, a distinction she cherished.

She is survived by her daughters, Vicky Minninger and Leah (Mike) Stinson; grandchildren, Kim (Brian) Smith, Emily Stinson, Briana (Taylor) Petty, Walton (Brittany) Stinson; great-grandchildren, Carter Smith, Taylor Smith, Banks Petty, Kate Petty, Callie Grace Stinson, Mattie Parker Stinson; as well as a host of nieces, nephews and their families.

She was preceded in death by her loving husband of sixty-one years, William Walton Youngblood, whom she loved and missed to her very last days; brothers, Woodford (Amel) Guin, Bedford (Elsie) Guin, Hughdolph (Ellen) Guin, Wayne (Lois) Guin; and sister and best friend, Juanita (Paul) Kipping.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to a charity of your choice.

The family would like to thank St. Catherine’s Village and St. Dominic’s Hospital for their vigilant and loving care of Lucille.