Longtime businessman Bud Golding is being remembered this week after his untimely death late last week.
The 77-year-old former business owner was killed in a car wreck last Friday afternoon at the intersection of Highway 51 and Perry Road. Family said that he was on his way to Sunflower Café for lunch as he does each week.
The restaurant’s owners, Philip and Janet Mixon, were shocked when they learned the news of Golding’s death.
“Mr. Golding was a wonderful customer of ours for many years,” Janet said. “His wife’s painting still hangs in our restaurant today. We loved having him join us every day for lunch. He was a special man and will be greatly missed.”
According to Grenada Police Department reports, Helen McKinney, 74, of Duck Hill, was driving a 2014 Ford F-150 that collided with Golding, who was driving a 2016 Jeep Wrangler. Both drivers were transported by ambulance to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Grenada. Golding was later flown by helicopter to Memphis, Tenn., where he died of injuries sustained in the accident.
Golding moved to Grenada in 1972 and managed Piggly Wiggly before purchasing Spain’s Supermarket in 1980.
Golding’s accident was the second involving a fatality in the City of Grenada this month. On March 5, 23-year old Zkhyree Hemphill died at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson from injuries sustained when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a vehicle on March 3, according to Grenada County Coroner Bobby Yates. The accident occurred on Highway 51 North near Double Quick.
(Publisher Adam Prestridge & Staff Reporter Mandy Ayers contributed to this report.)
