Services for Bobbie Ree Burt Dear of Hazlehurst are 1 p.m.,Friday, July 23, at First Baptist Church Chapel in Hazlehurst withburial in Harmony Cemetery in Crystal Springs. Community FuneralServices is in charge of arrangements. Services will be officiatedby Dr. Robert Hanvey.

Visitation is 10 a.m. until 1 p.m., at the church.

Mrs. Dear, 76, died July 20, 2004, at King’s Daughters MedicalCenter in Brookhaven from injuries sustained in an automobileaccident. She was born in Crystal Springs on Oct. 15, 1927, toHance Wilson Burt and Ethel Jane Sojourner Burt.

She was a lifelong resident of Copiah County. Her family movedto Hazlehurst where she graduated from Hazlehurst High School in1945. She married Theodore Dear Sr., and raised her five childrenin a home filled with her passion for cooking and joyouscelebrations of holidays and special occasions. Her most rewardingemployment was the more than 10 years she spent at Royal MaidIndustries for the Blind. She was a member of First Baptist Churchin Hazlehurst.

Preceding her in death were her brothers, Burnell Burt and EugieRay Burt.

Survivors are her husband, Theodore Dear Sr.; her daughters,Robin Burton and her husband, Hardy, of Brandon, Jerri Wallace andher husband, Sherrill, of Brookhaven, Bobbye Dear of Dallas, Texas,and Marie Dear of Pearl; her son, Theodore Dear Jr. of Hazlehurst;five grandchildren, Tommy Burton, Michael Dear, Lindsay Burton,Zachary Dear and Rachel Dear; one great-granddaughter, Abi; and ahost of friends.

Memorials may be made to the Baptist Children’s Village, P.O.Box 27, Clinton, MS 39060.