| 4:3O p.m. Friday, Sept. 10, 2010Services for our good friend and blues musician Tater Foster Wiley, who performed every year on our Sunflower River Blues Association acoustic stage and frequently at our Thanksgiving Eve fund-raiser at Ground Zero will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 14, at Pilgrim’s Rest Church on New Africa Rd., (Highway 322) approximately a mile or so from Clarksdale, according to Woolf Funeral Home directors.Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 14, in Clarksdale at Woolf Funeral Home, 761 McKinley (one block off Highway 61 North)Tater died Thursday at a Memphis Hospital where he had been hospitalized for several days in intensive care; Laura Mayfield and Shelley Ritter visited him there a week ago and reported that he was seriously ill and was not improving. For months Tater had been undergoing dialysis several days a week.Tater performed on the 23rd annual Sunflower Festival’s acoustic stage in the Civic Auditorium Saturday, Aug. 7, with John Ruskey as M/C. Later he and his signature kick drew applause from the Main Stage audience Saturday night when he performed with Jimbo Mathus. |
Updated 9/13/10
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS (per Tater’s brothers Joshua and Joe Wiley)
Viewing:
Monday, September 13, 2010
2pm – 6pm
Woolf Funeral Home
761 Mckinley St.
Clarksdale, MS 38614
662-624-2025 / 662-624-2522 (more info)
Wilbert D. Phillips, funeral director
Funeral:
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
11am
Vincent Productions
313 Issaquena
downtown Clarksdale, MS 38614
662-621-8925
Cemetery:
Procession to cemetery, etc. immediately following the funeral.
Pilgrim’s Rest Church
Directions: From 161 North State Street (headed away from “Crossroads” marker and toward
Kroger), turn left on New Africa Road (by the McDonalds) going toward Roundaway. Drive
approximately “3-4 miles to old church on right” (painted white).
Reception/blues jam:
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
3pm
Vincent Productions
313 Issaquena
downton Clarksdale, MS 38614
662-621-8925
DONATIONS FOR FUNERAL EXPENSES (per Joshua and Joe Wiley)
Donations: Can be accepted at the Reception above, or…
Per the family, please mail checks in Mr. Tater’s brother’s name, “Joshua Wiley”; he is temporarily covering the funeral expenses:
Joshua Wiley
4123 Farmview Dr.
Nashville, TN 37218 615-498-0244 / 615-876-9449 (questions)
the Music Maker Foundation has minted a special edition CD “The Best of Mr. Tater: The Greatest Music Maker Alive” — purchase of which helps defray costs of the funeral for Tater’s brothers Joshua & Joseph. You can find copies of this CD for $15 at the Delta Blues Museum or at Cat Head Music & Arts, both in downtown Clarksdale. Call them today and order some of Tater’s music and help his family out.
