Services for Robert Ford Sr., of Brookhaven, are 2 p.m.Saturday, Feb. 5 at Cool Spring M.B. Church with burial in thechurch cemetery.

Visitation is Friday from noon until 8 p.m., with family hourfrom 7-8 p.m., at Williams Mortuary.

Mr. Ford, 87, died Jan. 31, 2005, at Jefferson County Hospital.He was born in Lincoln County on May 15, 1917, to Walter Ford andOllie Black Ford.

He was retired. He was a graduate of Alexander High School andattended Alcorn State University. He was a veteran of the Army withservice in World War II. Mr. Ford was a member of Cool Spring M.B.Church, where he served on the Deacon Board for 49 years and asSunday School Superintendent. He was a self-employed pulpwoodhauler for many years. While in Lansing, Mich., he worked as a spotwelder for GMC Motors. He worked in Brookhaven at the Compress andScreen Wire Plant and as a substitute teacher at Lillie Mae BryantSchool in Bude. He also worked as a dispatcher for the FranklinCounty Sheriff’s Department.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his mother-in-law,Merever Kelly Brooks; his stepfather, Alex Qualls; three brothers,Percy Ford, Jesse Ford and John London; his three sisters, AnnieMae Byrd, Lillie Mae Lyons, and Rosie Smith; a grandson, EddieAlsworth Jr.; two great-grandchildren, Deric Webb and JohnDavenport Jr.; and his brother-in-law, Hillary Kelly Sr.

Survivors are his wife, Elnora Kelly Ford, of Brookhaven; histhree daughters, Shirley Middleton and her husband, Kenneth, ofMcCall Creek, Dorothy Lockhart and her husband, Thomas, of CrystalSprings, and Debra Wells and her husband, Homer, of McCall Creek;his three sons, Leroy Kelly and his wife, Bettie, of Brookhaven,Percy Ford, of Brookhaven, and Robert Ford Jr., of Lucien; ninegrandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces,nephews, other relatives and friends.