Services for Gussie Thames Norton, of Brookhaven, are 2 p.m.today, May 23 at Community Funeral Services Chapel with burial inRosehill Cemetery.

Mrs. Norton, 99, died May 20, 2005, at Haven Hall HealthcareCenter. She was born in Lincoln County on March 4, 1906, to WalterS. Thames and Dottie Ward Thames.

She was a self-employed seamstress. She was a member of theFirst Nazarene Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, RufusNorton; her daughter, Billie Jean Johnson; her granddaughter, JudyJohnson; a grandson, Phillip H Johnson; three brothers; and sixsisters.

Survivors are her two great-grandchildren, Claire Foshee andKaren Liebkneckt, both of Maryland; her sisters, Pauline Cain, ofBrookhaven, Dottie Hill, of Monticello, and Bettye Faye Jones, ofNashville; her brother, Ray Thames, of Brookhaven; and a host ofnieces and nephews.