Services for Myrtle Arlone Watson Ezell, of Meadville, were 11a.m. today, April 14 at Franklin Funeral Home Chapel in Meadvillewith burial in Eddiceton Cemetery.

Mrs. Ezell, 88, died April 12, 2005, at Franklin MemorialHospital in Meadville. She was born in Franklin County on Dec. 11,1916, to John L. Watson and Mary Emma McCaa Watson.

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

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, ArchieEzell; one son; one grandson; five brothers; and four sisters.

Survivors are her four daughters, Evelyn Jean Mitchell, ofEddiceton, Mary Ann Dukes, of Tennessee, Barbara Sue Lewis, ofVicksburg, and Hilda Maulene Whittington, of Ferriday, La.; herthree sons, Grady Ezell, of Metaroe, La., Claude Rudolph Ezell, ofMeadville, and Ken Ezell, of Natchez; 21 grandchildren; 46great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.