Services for Loyce L. Howard Sr. of Hazlehurst are 11 a.m.Saturday, Dec. 20, at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel with burial inMontgomery Baptist Church Cemetery.

Visitation is Friday, Dec. 19, from 5-9 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mr. Howard, 70, died Dec. 17, 2003, in Lincoln County. He wasborn in Clayton, La., on June 2, 1933, to Dan Howard and Ethel ByrdHoward.

He was disabled. He was a member of Montgomery BaptistChurch.

Preceding him in death were his parents, two sisters and twobrothers.

Survivors are his daughter and son-in-law, Becky and DavidFlowers of Bogue Chitto; his sons and daughters-in-law, LavoidHoward, Doyle and Lynn Howard, Charlie Howard, Wesley and DanaHoward, all of Bogue Chitto, and Mike Howard of Caldwell, Texas;his sisters, Lola Rae O’Briant, Alta Mae Hamilton and PaulineChildress, all of Louisiana; 12 grandchildren and onegreat-grandchild.