Services for Margueritte Dickerson Nelson, of McComb, are 11a.m. Saturday, March 5 at Catchings Funeral Home in McComb withburial in Hollywood Cemetery.

Visitation is today from 5-7 p.m. and Saturday from 10-11 a.m.at the funeral home.

Mrs. Nelson, 87, died March 2, 2005, at Camellia Estates. Shewas born in Pike County on Nov. 5, 1917, to T.P. Dickerson and EllaJohnston Dickerson.

She was a member of Centenary United Methodist Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Willard L.Nelson; and one son, Lt. Charles Leslie Nelson.

Survivors are her sons, Art Nelson, of McComb, and Ken Nelson,of Montgomery, Ala.; two brothers, Tom Dickerson, of Arlington,Texas, and Harold Dickerson, of McComb; one sister, Dorothy Jones,of McComb; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.