Services for Peggy Ruth Newell Rutland of Monticello are 11a.m., Tuesday, May 25, at Forest Grove Methodist Protestant Churchwith burial in the church cemetery.

Visitation is Monday from 5-9 p.m., at Wilson Funeral Home, andTuesday from 9-11 a.m., at the church.

Mrs. Rutland, 64, died May 22, 2004, at her residence. She wasborn in Lincoln County on April 19, 1940, to Russell E. Newell andMargurite Walker Newell.

She was a secretary for the child support division of LincolnCounty Department of Human Services. She was a member of ForestGrove Methodist Protestant Church, where she was a Sunday schoolteacher and a nursery worker.

Preceding her in death were her parents.

Survivors are her husband, Carl S. Rutland; her daughter andson-in-law, Allison R. Platt and husband Kenny of Monticello; hersons and daughter-in-law, Keith S. Rutland, and Tommy E. Rutlandand wife Lesa, all of Monticello; her sister and brother-in-law,Earline and Aubrey Allen of Brookhaven; her brother andsister-in-law, Jerome and Carolyn Newell of Monticello; herstepmother, Wessie W. Newell of Brookhaven; her granddaughters,Deanna Platt, Alexis Platt and Amanda Rutland, all of Monticello;her grandsons, Will Rutland and Caleb Rutland, both of Monticello;and a number of nieces and nephews.