Services for Francies Elizabeth McFarland, of Bude, are 2 p.m.Thursday, April 7 at Franklin Funeral Home with burial in MidwayCemetery. The Reverend Webb Armstrong and the Rev. Billy Howse willofficiate services.

Visitation is today from 5-8 p.m. and Thursday from 8 until 2p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. McFarland, 101, died April 5, 2005, at Meadville NursingHome. She was born in Franklin County on Jan. 25, 1904, to AllenEzell and Lonie Laird Ezell.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of Sarepta BaptistChurch.

Preceding her in death were her husband, Allen McFarland; andfour children, Earlene Alderman, Winfield McFarland, HaroldMcFarland and Lucille Ledlow.

Survivors are her daughter, Myrt Reeves, of McComb; her sons,Ralph McFarland and his wife, Dorothy, of Meadville, GeorgeMcFarland and his wife, Joy, of Natchez, and Carroll Laird and hiswife, Sandra, of Vicksburg; numerous grandchildren,great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be her grandsons.