Clyde Anderson Doty, Sr.

Clyde Anderson Doty Sr., known affectionately as Andy, of McCool, Mississippi, passed away on March 10, 2026, with his loving wife by his side. He was 88.

Born on October 26, 1937, in Attala County, Mississippi, to Lema Burns Doty and Russell Clyde Doty, Andy served in the United States Air Force for two years. He married his high school sweetheart, Rose Ann Simmons, on January 21, 1958. When his father died, he returned home from the Air Force as the oldest son to help support his mother and the younger children. He and Rose Ann later moved to the coast, where he began as an apprentice at Ingalls Shipbuilding. Over the next twenty years, he advanced to supervisor over three departments responsible for nuclear submarines. The couple eventually returned to McCool, where Andy earned a degree from Mississippi State University. When the vo-tech school opened, he taught machine shop for seventeen years before spending eighteen years in maintenance at French Camp Academy, where he built the metal horse arena fence and the metal stairs to the dorms.

Andy loved gospel music and served as music director and Sunday School teacher at several churches over the years. Creative and charismatic, he never met a stranger and was always ready to lend a hand wherever needed. He was a devoted husband to Rose Ann, his love of more than sixty-eight years, and a loving father to their four children.

He is survived by his wife, Rose Ann Simmons Doty; his children, Clyde A. Doty Jr. (Buster), Reagan Doty Pope (Curtis Pope), Lissa Doty Fancher (James Fancher), and Annice Doty Propst (Roger Propst); his grandchildren, known to him as Big Daddy—Curt Pope (Nevaeh), Abby Atchley (Nick), Jade Smitherman (Tony), Erica Riser (John Carl), and Jessica Pope; his great-grandchildren, Aiden, Austin, Chip, Emerie Dahl (James), Laya Bryan (Walker), and Dylan; and his great-great-grandsons, Waylon and Garrett. Andy will be remembered for his good-natured personality, sense of humor, storytelling, deep love for his family and the Lord, and his remarkable ability to imagine and create almost anything. His presence will be greatly missed, but because of Jesus, his family knows they will see him again. A private family service was held, and he was buried at Parkway Cemetery in Kosciusko, Mississippi.