Services for Paul E. Hales of Utica were 3:30 p.m. Saturday, May7, 2005, at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel with burial inBeauregard Cemetery.

Mr. Hales, 85, died May 5, 2005, at Central Mississippi MedicalCenter. He was born in Wesson on Oct. 16, 1919, to Paul E. Halesand Annie Hales.

He was a house painter and construction worker. He was a memberof Beauregard Methodist Church. He was a Marine.

Preceding him in death were his parents; two sisters and threebrothers.

Survivors are his wife of 64 years, Lexie Hales of Utica; hissons, Kenneth Hales, Rodger Hales, and Mark Hales, all of Utica,Glenn Hales of Jackson, Phillip Hales of Tupelo, and Lester Halesof Gadsden, Ala.; 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.