Services for Gladis McCormick Estes Fender of Brookhaven are 2p.m., Saturday, March 29, at Brookhaven Funeral Home with burial inRosehill Cemetery.

Visitation is today from 5-8 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Fender, 86, died March 27, 2003, at her residence. She wasborn in Logansport, Texas, on July 2, 1916, to Jasper McCormick andGeorgia Bussey McCormick.

She was retired from J. C. Penney department store. She was amember of Jackson St. United Methodist Church. She was a member ofthe Eastern Star.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husbands, Reo Estesand Ward Fender; her daughter, Doris Estes; her son, Jimmy Ray; andseven brothers and one sister.

Survivors are her sons and daughters-in-law, Don and ShirleyEstes of Brookhaven, Warren and Sandra Estes of Bay Springs, andReo and Dura Estes of Hempstead, Texas; her daughters andson-in-law, Juanita and Glynn James of Brookhaven and DorisHolloway of Cleveland, Texas; her brothers, Howard McCormick ofAlexandria, La., Dalton McCormick of Houston, Texas, and RandolphMcCormick of Sunset, La.; and 20 grandchildren, numerousgreat-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

Memorials may be made to Brookhaven Beautiful, King’s DaughtersFoundation, or a charity of choice.