Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Former Miss America Mary Ann Mobley Collins, former White House spokesman Larry Speakes and Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba were among the notable Mississippians who died during 2014.
State Senate President Pro Tempore Terry Brown also died during the year, as did the wife of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran. Rose Clayton Cochran, who had dementia, was pulled into a bizarre political scandal during the 2014 election, as critics of her husband took unauthorized photos of her in her nursing home bed to try to discredit the six-term senator.
Other prominent Mississippians who died were former Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Berry, who was born in Itta Bena; Dr. Aaron Shirley, who helped found the Jackson Medical Mall; and former Mississippi first lady Carroll Waller, who led efforts to restore the Governor's Mansion.
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