Services for Marjorie Glenn Spring Roper of Smithdale are 2p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 23, at Mt. Gilead Primitive Baptist Church withburial in the church cemetery. Catchings Funeral Home in McComb isin charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Tuesday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., at thechurch.

Mrs. Roper, 55, died Dec. 21, 2003, at Southwest MississippiRegional Medical Center in McComb. She was born in Franklin Countyon Oct. 21, 1948, to William Spring and Eloweese Jones Spring.

She was a homemaker, and a member of Mt. Gilead PrimitiveBaptist Church. She attended Calvary Baptist Church atSmithdale.

Preceding her in death were her father and a son, Andrew “Andy”Joseph Roper.

Survivors are her mother, Eloweese Jones Spring of Smithdale;her husband, Joseph L. Roper of Smithdale; her daughter, Mary AnnRoper of Smithdale; her sons, Thomas Charles Roper of Caribou,Maine, and Marc Allen Roper of Smithdale; her sisters, GloriaWicker and Shelia Young, both of Smithdale, and Georgia Daughdrillof Tickfaw, La.; her brothers, Joe Spring, Leroy Spring, JamesSpring and Johnny Spring, all of Smithdale; and numerous nieces,nephews, other family members and friends.