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Dorothy Marie Pugh Lang, 90, of Magnolia, died April 29, 2009, at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center. Graveside services were 11 a.m. today at Bluff Springs Baptist Church Cemetery in Magnolia. Mrs. Lang was born April 18, 1919, in Winston County in Loakfoma, a town in East Central Mississippi that no longer exists. She was the daughter of Thomas S. Pugh and Alma Etheridge Pugh. She was a homemaker and a member of Bluff Springs Baptist Church. Mrs. Lang had resided on Lang Road east of Magnolia for more than 70 years. As a teenager in the early 1930s, she moved from Winston County to Magnolia to join her older sister, Ella, who had previously come to Pike County to earn money in the Sanders Cotton plant to help support their family during the difficult times of the Great Depression years. Mrs. Lang worked side-by-side with her sister for several years before meeting and marrying a local cotton farmer's son, Eugene Winford Lang, in 1938. Mrs. Lang's parents, Thomas and Alma, also later moved to Pike County from Louisville. Dorothy was a cousin of the country singer Tammy Wynette . After Mrs. Lang's husband's service in the U.S. Army during World War II, the couple worked together on their farm for nearly 40 years. Their extensive farming operations on 300 acres included a dairy and cattle farm. Her husband also raised soybeans and other crops. They were named the Pike County Chamber of Commerce's Farm Family of the Year in 1968. As Dorothy was the only one of the Pugh siblings to live "in the country," her household was always a reunion destination for visiting kinfolk. A great cook and flower and vegetable gardener in her heyday, she loved her family above all else. She was a tremendous housewife and mother. Dorothy always regarded her sister, Ella Chadwick as her "second mama." Mrs. Lang was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Eugene W. Lang; one son, Stacy Lang; two brothers, Bert and Maurice Pugh; two sisters, Ella Chadwick and Avis Poole; and one half-sister, Fannie Atkinson. Survivors include one daughter, Kathryn Marlene Lang Barnes of McComb; two sons, Thomas E. Lang and his wife Sylvia of Linn Creek, Mo., and Keith Lang of Magnolia; grandchildren, Paul Barnes of Progress, Marilyn Terrell of Liberty, Ken Barnes of Metairie, La., and Tommy and Jimmy Lang of the Dallas area; five great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives. - margie etheridge[1]
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