Services for Rose Mary Buffington Rippy of McComb are 1 p.m.,Thursday, Jan. 22, at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel with burial inStewart Cemetery in Lincoln County.

Visitation is Wednesday from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m., at thefuneral Home.

Mrs. Rippy, 64, died Jan. 20, 2004, at her residence. She wasborn in Lincoln County on June 23, 1939, to Lonnie Boyd and JessieBardwell Boyd.

She was a homemaker.

Preceding her in death were her father, a brother and asister.

Survivors are her mother, Jessie Bardwell Boyd of Brookhaven;her husband, Robert L. Rippy of McComb; her children and spouses,Mr. and Mrs. James Buffington, Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Holcomb, Mr.and Mrs. Joe Buffington, Mr. and Mrs. Wren Rollins, and Mr. andMrs. Tim Hodges, all of Bogue Chitto, and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh VanLandingham of McComb; her stepchildren, Carlos and Joyce Wallace ofSummit, Bobbie and Dalvis Rawls of McComb, and Susan Rippy andLarry Rippy, both of Brookhaven; her sister, Helen Bigner ofSummit; her brother, Jimmy Boyd of Summit; and 15grandchildren.