Services for Billie Blakeney Lofthouse of Sycamore, Ill., are10:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 17 at Robinson Road Baptist Church inPeoria, Miss., followed by a graveside service.

Visitation is Thursday from 5-9 p.m. at Hartman Funeral Home inMcComb and Friday from 9-10:30 a.m. at the church.

Mrs. Lofthouse, 68, died Dec. 11, 2004, in Sycamore, Ill. Shewas born in Newellton, La., on Oct. 9, 1936, to Bill L. McCord andMinnie McCord of Diamondhead, Miss.

She spent the majority of her life in Jackson raising her threedaughters. She was a 1982 graduate of Hinds Community College andwent on to be a registered nurse at the University of MississippiMedical Center Children’s Hospital in Jackson. She was a devotedmember of Glad Tidings Assembly of God Church in Sycamore.

Preceding her in death was her father.

Survivors are her mother; her husband, Joseph Lofthouse ofSycamore; her daughters, Karen Herring and her husband, Gene, ofFlorence, Cheryl “Gogie” Ashley of Brookhaven and Belinda Fischerand her husband, Craig, of Naples, Fla.; her stepchildren, BillLofthouse and his wife, Cindy, of DeKalb, Ill., and Kathy Madden ofHanover Park, Ill.; her sister, Katherine Magee and her husband,Butch, of Diamondhead; her grandchildren, Aaron Herring ofFlorence, Brooke Ashley of Brookhaven, Dustin and Gracie Fischer ofNaples; and several step grandchildren.