Jessie Polk Diffrient

Services for Jessie Polk Diffrient, of Brookhaven, are 3:30 p.m.today, April 26 at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel with burial inEasthaven Cemetery.

Visitation is today from noon until 3:30 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mrs. Diffrient, 85, died April 24, 2005, at her residence. Shewas born in Jefferson Davis County on Oct. 28, 1919, to WilliamLuther Polk and India Robbins Polk.

She was a homemaker and former owner of Brookhaven MonumentCompany. She was a member of First Baptist Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Belton E.Diffrient Sr.; her brothers, Clifton, Ray and J.B. Polk; hersisters, Ina Bufkin, Tima Michael and Gay Swett.

Survivors are her daughter and son-in-law, Amanda Diffrient andGreg Moriarty, of Bassfield; her son, Belton E. Diffrient Jr. andhis wife, Doris, of Loyd Star; and three grandchildren, AustinClary, Kellie Paxton, Ezra Diffrient and Stacy, Molly andBlair.

Memorials may be made to the American Diabetes Association.

Robert Keith Hart

Services for Robert Keith Hart, of Brookhaven, are 11 a.m.Wednesday, April 27 at Pleasant Ridge United Pentecostal Churchwith burial in Easthaven Cemetery.

Visitation is today from 5:30-9 p.m. at Brookhaven FuneralHome.

Mr. Hart, 51, died April 24, 2005, at his residence. He was bornin McComb on Dec. 15, 1953, to Robert D. Hart and Mary Lou SmithHart, of Bogue Chitto.

He was an oilfield worker for Diamond Offshore.

Preceding him in death were his father; and his son, RobertClaiborne Hart.

Survivors are his mother; his wife, Faye Britt Hart, ofBrookhaven; his daughter, Amy Arnold, of Gulfport; his son,Jonathan Seth Hart, of Brookhaven; his sisters, Patricia Penny, ofPetal, and Carolyn Clark, of Picayune; his brother, Richard Hart,of Covington, La.; and a host of nieces and nephews.

Martha Mobley LeNoir

Graveside services for Martha Mobley LeNoir, of Gulfport, are10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 27 at Oaklawn Memorial in Aberdeen.Tisdale-Lann Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of localarrangements.

Mrs. LeNoir, 84, died April 22, 2005, in Gulfport. She was bornin Lee County, Ark., on May 4, 1920, to Charles C. Mobley andGertrude Denley Mobley.

She grew up in Aberdeen. She and her husband, Sterling, moved toGulfport in 1993.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her first husband of 25years, D.T. Livingston; two brothers, Coleman Mobley and DenleyMobley; one sister, Louise Gilreath; a stepson, John E. LeNoir; anda stepdaughter, Betty L. Noblin.

Survivors are her husband of 37 years, Sterling F. LeNoir Jr.;her stepchildren, Carolyn Foster and her husband, Calvin, ofGulfport, Jane Byrd and her husband, Kenneth, of West Point, andFrances Waldrep, of West Point; two sisters, Mildred Roberts, ofAberdeen, and Viola Moon and her husband, Chester, of Clarklake,Mich.; two brothers, Charles Edward Mobley, of Aberdeen, and WilburFred Mobley and his wife, Barbara, of Aberdeen; 18 grandchildren;26 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

Renee’ Billiot Peters

Services for Renee’ Billiot Peters, of Natalbany, La., are 10a.m. Wednesday, April 27 at Harry McKneely & Son Funeral Homein Hammond, La., with burial in Bogue Chitto Cemetery.

Visitation is today from 6-10 p.m. and Wednesday from 8-10 a.m.at the funeral home.

Mrs. Peters, 24, died in her sleep April 23, 2005, at hermother’s residence. She was born in Gulfport on Oct. 14, 1980, toNathan and Linda Harper Billiot, of Natalbany.

She was a member of the Church of Later Day Saints in Hammondand attended Independence High School.

Preceding her in death were her grandparents, Bill Harper andPeggy Montgomery.

Survivors are her parents; her husband, Robert Peters, ofNatalbany; her daughters, Cheyenne and Kaitlyn Peters, ofNatalbany; her sons, Jordan Billiot, of Natalbany; her brother,David York, of New Orleans; her sister, Nikki Ladner, of Delisle,Miss.; her grandparents, Anthony and Jackie Billiot, of Natalbany,and Delta Dardar, of Hammond.

Norma Elizabeth Thames

Services for Norma Elizabeth Thames, of Brookhaven, were 11 a.m.today, April 26 at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel with burial inHawkins Chapel Cemetery in Lincoln County.

Mrs. Thames, 84, died April 24, 2005, at her residence. She wasborn in Lincoln County on March 31, 1921, to Memphis Nevels andSadie Ford Nevels.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of First MethodistChurch.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her brother, RoyceNevels; and a sister, Frances Webster.

Survivors are her husband, W. Ray Thames, of Brookhaven; herdaughter, Susan Thames Case and her husband, Sherrill, ofBrookhaven; her brother, Richard Nevels, of Brookhaven; hergranddaughter, Tammy Wilkinson and her husband, Roger, ofBrookhaven; her great-granddaughters, Brittany Wilkinson and herfiance, Grant Prestridge, of Brookhaven, and Heather Hutchinson andher husband, Jimmy Ray, of Monticello; onegreat-great-granddaughter, Gracie Rae Hutchinson, of Monticello;one special nephew, Mark Callender, of Pearland, Texas.

Katherine Laird Thompson

Services for Katherine Laird Thompson, of Brookhaven, are 2 p.m.today, April 26 at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel with burial inEasthaven Cemetery.

Mrs. Thompson, 68, died April 24, 2005, at her residence. Shewas born in Franklin County on Sept. 18, 1936, to George Laird andClara Ezell Laird Head of Brookhaven.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of the Baptist faith.

Preceding her in death were her father; her husband, RoyThompson; her son, David Ezell; and her brothers, Roy and TroyLaird.

Survivors are her mother; her daughters, Nancy Case, ofBrookhaven and Evelyn Bowman and Robert Buitt, of Bogue Chitto; hersons, Ronnie Ezell and his wife, Vicki, and Mike Ezell and hiswife, Cynthia, all of Brookhaven, and Eugene Ezell, of Salem, Ohio;her sisters, Glenda Dawson and Clara Long, both of Brookhaven, andNellie Cato, of Troy, Mo.; 16 grandchildren; and 17great-grandchildren.