Mortimer Funeral Home 711 Highway 82 East Greenville, MS 38701 (662) 334-4519 Service Details Funeral services for Jimmy Monroe Peets, 64, of Greenville, will be 2:00 PM Wednesday, September 14th, 2016 at Mortimer Funeral Home. Pastor Wayne Pinkerton will officiate. Visitation will be held from 1:00 PM until 2:00 PM prior to the service. Interment will be in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens, under the direction of Mortimer Funeral Home. He passed away peacefully on Monday, September 12, 2016, at his residence in Greenville, Mississippi. Jimmy was born September 24th, 1951 in Greenville, MS, the son of George Monroe Peets and Ruby Nell Winters Peets. Jimmy was a Baptist by faith and a member of the First Baptist Church. He is a graduate of the 1970 Class of Greenville High School, where he excelled as an athlete. After graduation, Jimmy signed a professional baseball contract with the Boston Red Sox. After two and a half years, elbow problems sent him back to Greenville where he went on to earn an associate's degree from Mississippi Delta Community College and then on to Delta State University. After college, Jimmy spent 25 years with Entergy and left to pursue real estate development. Jimmy spent the last 12 years of his working career as the managing owner of Cotton Creek Apartments. Jimmy served on the City of Greenville�s Planning Commission, and most recently the Washington County Planning Commission. He was a member of the Greenville Golf & Country Club, the Italian Club of Greenville, and the Greenville Elks Club. He is preceded in death by his father. Mr. Peets is survived by his mother, Ruby Nell Peets; wife of 41 years, Carol Sue Adams Peets; one son, Jason Adam Peets and his wife, Reagan White Peets; one daughter, Melissa Peets Peters and her husband, Troy Edward Peters; four grandchildren, Aiden Adam Peets, Dylan Reynolds Peets, Olivia Adeline Peters, Emerson Annabelle Peters; one sister, Diane Peets Selby and her husband, Dennis Selby; one niece, Jennifer Selby Freer; one nephew, William Casey Selby; and one brother-in-law, Charles Otis Adams. Pallbearers are Ken Hobart, Chip Hobart, Sammy Hedgpeth, Jack Turnipseed, Dr. Andrew Abide, Kenny Brantley, and Josh Hammons. Honorary pallbearers are Johnny McRight, Billy Wright, Mike Brown, and Dr. Phil Doolittle. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to The Washington County Scholarship Classic, Inc., P.O. Box 639, Greenville, MS 38702 in memory of Jimmy Peets.