Services for Willie Mae Patton of Brookhaven are 11 a.m.Saturday, June 30, at New Hope M.B. Church with burial in thechurch cemetery.

Visitation is Friday, June 29, from noon to 5 p.m. at WilliamsMortuary.

Mrs. Patton, 83, died Monday, June 25, 2001, at Beverly HealthCare Center. She was born in Lincoln County on Sept. 22, 1917, tothe late Will and Annie Merchant.

She was retired. She was a member of New Hope M.B. Church.

Preceding her in death were her husband, Willie Patton;daughter, Annie Willie Patton; brother, Robert Lee Merchant; andsisters, Aline Dennis and Ella Howard.

Survivors are her sister, Earline Dyson of Chicago, and manynieces, nephews and other relatives.