Sonny Montgomery statue with mourning flowers

Sonny Montgomery statue with mourning flowers
Photo by Megan Bean

May 12, 2006

With the Drill Field flag at half-staff in the background, MSU Florist manager Lynette McDougald completed final touches Friday morning to a Division of Student Affairs wreath at the statue of G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery. The 1943 graduate and longtime congressman died hours earlier in his hometown of Meridian. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday from Meridian's Temple Theater.