Marcus Beasley, a former Ackerman High School football standout from the 1990s, is being remembered for the mark he left on the school and the community that watched him play, according to the Mississippi High School Sports Page.
The page expressed condolences to Beasley’s family, friends and teammates during what it described as a difficult time.
Jon Ross Myers founded Mississippi News Group in 2013. Before founding the organization, he worked at The Daily Mississippian, The Marion Salute and The Southern Sentinel. A Mississippi journalist and writer based in Ripley, he received second place in poetry in the 2025 William Faulkner Literary Competition for "The Garden."
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