Kay Matthews, 81

December 12, 1943  –  October 11, 2025

Tupelo-Beloved Tupelo citizen, civic leader, and committed Christian woman, Kay Morrison Mathews peacefully slipped away to her eternal home from NMMC-Tupelo after a brief illness. Kay was the wife of Dan Mathews, Sr., the mother of Marci Mathews Sliman and Dan Mathews, Jr. and grandmother to three. She was the wind beneath the wings of the Regional Rehabilitation Center in Tupelo beginning in l965 where she began her career as a Master Speech Therapist. Her love for the Rehab Center is legendary until her dying day. She spent over 20 years as Executive Director, maintaining her professional role as a speech therapist. She was a longtime member of the Junior Auxiliary and received their highest award, Tupelo’s Citizen of the Year in 2023. Last year, 2024, she was honored with the prestigious Red Rasberry Humanitarian Award from the Regional Rehab Center. A longtime faithful and active member of Calvary Baptist

Church in Tupelo, Kay’s faith was exercised every day in the kindness and love she spread among clients of the RRC. She and Dan were adventurous souls traveling the USA camping, mountain climbing and motorcycle riding. They adventured abroad as well.

Holland Funeral Directors will announce funeral arrangements as soon as they are made and a full obituary will follow. We all thank God for this wonderful soul who took literally the Golden Rule-“do unto others as you would have done to you”. She will be long remembered and forever missed.

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