Services for Vera “Grace” Lea Chapman of McComb are 10:30 a.m.Tuesday, Oct. 26 at Harrigill Funeral Home Chapel with burial inDamascus Cemetery.

Visitation is today from 5-8 p.m. and Tuesday from 9-10:30 a.m.at the funeral home.

Mrs. Chapman, 86, died Oct. 23, 2004, at Franklin CountyMemorial Hospital. She was born in Lincoln County on Nov. 3, 1917,to Joe Lea and Mollie Kimble Lea.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of New Salem BaptistChurch.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Rayford D.Chapman; two brothers; eight sisters; and one great-grandchild.

Survivors are her daughters, Nancy Howell and her husband,Jerry, of McCall Creek, and Nelda Steele, and her husband, Allen,of McComb; her sons, Jerry Chapman and his wife, Wanda, of McComb,and Charles Chapman and his wife, Lynne, of Lucien; her brotherLuke Lea of Baytown, Texas; seven grandchildren; and fivegreat-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Ronnie Thompson, Mark Fortenbery, JeremyHowell, Rusty Lea, Jim Magee, Bill Sandifer and Adam Steele.

Honorary pallbearers will be James Conerly, Eddie Holmes, JoeyTaylor and Billy Chapman.