Services for Michael Wayne Tarver, of Meridian, are 2 p.m.today, May 12 at Brookhaven Funeral Home with burial in UnionChurch Cemetery in Jefferson County.

Mr. Tarver, 30, died May 10, 2005, at Jeff Anderson MedicalCenter in Meridian. He was born in Morgan City, La., on Oct. 21,1974, to Willie Tarver and Janette Thorpe Tarver, of Meridian.

He was a former employee of Peavey Electronics in Meridian,where he designed and built guitars. He was of the Baptist faith.He loved wood working, reading and working with computers.

Preceding him in death was his grandfather, Denver Fuller.

Survivors are his parents; his brother, John Richard Tarver, ofMeridian; his grandparents, John W. Thorpe, of Natchez, Sallie M.Thorpe, of Brookhaven and Ida Fuller, of McComb; and a host ofaunts, uncles and cousins.