Services for Verlin Ola Ragland of Crystal Springs were 2 p.m.Saturday, May 18, at Stringer Funeral Home with burial in CrystalSprings Cemetery.

Mrs. Ragland, 81, died Thursday, May 16, 2002, at Willow Creekin Byram. She was born in Copiah County.

She was a member of First Pentecostal Holiness Church in CrystalSprings.

Survivors are her sons, Billy Joe Ragland of Crystal Springs andRichard Percy Ragland of Lakeland, Fla.; daughters, Maxine “Jamie”Atkins of Jackson and Joyce McPherson of Crystal Springs; sister,Evelyn Brister of Clinton; nine grandchildren; and 11great-grandchildren.