Services for Inez Hall Ray of Brookhaven are 11 a.m., Friday,April 9, at Wilson Funeral Home Chapel with burial in MonticelloUnited Methodist Church Cemetery.

Visitation is Thursday from 5-9 p.m., at the funeral home.

Mrs. Ray, 86, died April 6, 2004, at her residence.

She was a homemaker, whose many talents included cooking,sewing, canning and gardening. She was a member of MonticelloMethodist Church. She was a native of Coffeeville. She marriedWilliam A. Ray in 1936, and they raised three daughters inCranfield. They moved to Monticello in the late 1960s, and livedthere until 2000 when they moved to Brookhaven.

Preceding her in death were her parents, Benjamin F. and EstelleDees Hall; her husband; two sisters, Katie Lynn Hall and Nora HallNelson; and a brother, Wilbourn “Buddy” Hall.

Survivors are her daughters and sons-in-law, Ann and Roger Boyd,and Sue and Mike Windham, all of Brookhaven, and Judy and SteveCliburn of Monticello; her sisters, Mary Nell Balducci of Shelby,and Mrs. A.V. (Pat) Crosthwait of Grenada; her grandchildren, ScottBoyd of Jackson and Macon, Eric Boyd of Brookhaven, Catherine Byrdof Petal, Todd Windham and Ben Windham, both of Oxford, and JustinWindham of Jackson; and nine great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to Monticello United Methodist ChurchCemetery Fund, P.O. Box 87, Monticello, MS 39654, or HospiceMinistries, 397 Brookhaven St., Brookhaven, MS 39601.