Services for Ray Dorman Stokes of Brookhaven were 2 p.m. Sunday,Sept. 5 at Community Funeral Services Chapel with burial inWoodlawn Cemetery in Summit.

Mr. Stokes, 78, died Sept. 2, 2004, at University of MississippiMedical Center in Jackson. He was born in Eldorado, Ark., on Dec.28, 1925, to George Stokes and Edna Wooley Stokes.

He was a retired signal maintainer for Illinois Central Railroadwhere he had worked for 44 years. He was an ordained deacon of theBaptist faith. He was a proud veteran of the United States Navy andserved two years in World War II as a minesweeper aboard the USSSkirmish. He was married for 57 years to Mildred Herring Stokes ofBrookhaven.

Preceding him in death were his parents; and one sister, HelenLofton.

Survivors are his wife; his daughter, Sherry Foster ofBrookhaven; his son, Rodney Stokes of Madison; his brother, GeorgeStokes of Gretna, La.; his grandsons, Anthony Foster and his wife,Cindy, of Brookhaven, and Alex, Aaron and Austin Stokes of Madison;one aunt; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

Memorials may be made to Southway Baptist Church BuildingFund.