Services for Margaret Ruth Cothern Pepper, of Brookhaven, are 11a.m. Saturday, March 26 at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel withburial in Wanilla Cemetery in Lawrence County.

Visitation is today from 5-9 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Pepper, 82, died March 24, 2005, at King’s DaughtersMedical Center. She was born in Lawrence County on Oct. 2, 1922, toSamuel Elzia Newsome and Minnie Mae Keene Newsome.

She was a nurses aid at Silver Cross Nursing Home. She was amember of Central Baptist Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husbands, PrestonCothern and Powell W. Pepper; her sisters, Ruby Thornhill, BarbaraAnn Boutwell and Sarah Calcote; and her brothers, Roscoe Newsomeand William Thomas Newsome.

Survivors are her sons, James Cothern and his wife, Betty, DonCothern and his wife, Rita, and Ken Cothern and his wife, Sheila,all of Brookhaven; his sisters, Minnie Marie Evans and her husband,Joe, of Biloxi, Pauline Lambert, of Wanilla, and Faye Etta Hilband,of Brookhaven; her brothers, Samuel “Bud” Newsome and his wife,Betty, of Sontag, and Joe Newsome and his wife, Margarette, ofBrookhaven; six grandchildren, Missy Wilson, and her husband, Jeff,of Brookhaven, Kim Wright and her husband, Stan, of Gulf Breeze,Fla., Dawn Hennington, of Brookhaven, Dana Rushing and her husband,Brad, of Brookhaven, Stephanie Lee and her husband, David, ofMeridian and Krystal Leggett, of Brookhaven; and 10great-grandchildren.