Services for Rickey Holmes, of Monticello, are 2 p.m. today, May11 at Wilson Funeral Home Chapel with burial in Bethel BaptistChurch Cemetery.

Mr. Holmes, 48, died May 9, 2005, at Jefferson Davis CountyHospital in Prentiss. He was born in Tylertown on July 7, 1956, toRobert Vernon Holmes and Gladys Morris Holmes.

He was a carpenter. He was a member of ABATE and Crooked CreekBaptist Church.

Preceding him in death were his father; and one brother, SammyHolmes.

Survivors are his mother; his wife, Renee Holmes, of Monticello;his daughter, Kandace Marie Holmes, of Monticello; his sons, DustinRay Presley, of Tickfaw, La., and Robert Chase Holmes, ofMonticello; his sister, Sandra Turner, of Monticello; and hisbrother, Danny Holmes, of Monticello.