Barry Duane Tucker lived a life for 71 years that revolved around his family, his work and God’s creation. Barry was born in Pontotoc County on May 3, 1951 to the late Elbert Derrell Tucker and Nellie Austin “Nell” Tucker, who survives. He spent his first few years in Pontotoc but lived most of his life in Lee County. A 1970 graduate of Tupelo High School, Barry furthered his education receiving a BS Degree in Biology from the University of Mississippi in 1974. He first was employed doing land title searches but soon gravitated to his life work, home construction, where he put his mark on hundreds of family dwellings in Lee and surrounding areas. He partnered with several area builders over the years including Danny Barrows early in his career and owned quality properties with R.J. Wilemon and Tommy Turner where they built hundreds of homes. The highlight of his homebuilding career was when he and his family founded Tucker Construction Co. in 2017. Barry and son Tyler, built the houses. Debbie was the bookkeeper and Kristen picked the house plans and did interior design. Their partnership brought all of them much joy and success. Barry was completely devoted to his family but Pop B’s two grandchildren where the light of his life. While he enjoyed being on the water as much as possible boating, his greatest joy was his family.
All services are private to the family. Burial is at Lee Memorial Park. For those wishing to express sympathy, it is suggested that condolences be emailed to hollandfuneraldirectors@comcast.net The family requests that donations be made to the Diabetes Foundation of Mississippi, 800 Avery Blvd. Suite 100, Ridgeland, MS. 3915 , the Tupelo-Lee Humane Shelter, P. O. Box 2143, Tupelo, MS. 38802 or to the charity of your choice.
Barry is survived by his wife, Debbie Howell Tucker of Belden; his son and business partner, Tyler Tucker and wife, Kristen of Tupelo; his mother, Nell Tucker of Tupelo; his grandchildren, Sadie Tucker and Sawyer Tucker; his sister, Denise Kitchen and husband, John of Olive Branch. He was preceded in death by his dad, Derrell Tucker in l995; his sons, Tony Tucker on July 3, 2003 and Trey Austin Tucker on Nov. 29, 2007.
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