Services for Lewis L. “Red” Monroe Sr. of Clinton are 11 a.m.,Saturday, May 5, at Lakewood Memorial Funeral Home with burial inLakewood Memorial Park.

Visitation is today from 7-9 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mr. Monroe, 85, died May 2, 2001, at Baptist Medical Center. Hewas a native of Decatur. He received bachelor’s and master’sdegrees from Mississippi State University.

He was a retired extension marketing specialist. He was a memberof St. John’s Methodist Church. He was a veteran of WWII. He was aFreemason and a 32nd Degree Shriner of the Wahabi Temple.

Survivors are his sons, Leon Monroe of Roswell, Ga., and JoeMonroe of Columbia, S.C.; his brothers, James L. Clark of Gilbert,La., Johnny R. Monroe of Meadville, and Curtis R. Monroe of Fulton;his sister, Neva Monroe Doler of Eupora; and three grandsons.

Memorials may be made to the Shriners Hospital for Children,3100 Samford Ave., Shreveport, LA 71103, or to St. John’s UnitedMethodist Church, 1702 Old Vicksburg Rd., Clinton, MS 39056.