Services for Doyle Cothern Jr., of Enon, are 2 p.m. Wednesday,May 25 at Catchings Funeral Home in McComb with burial in EnonCemetery.

Visitation is today from 4-8 p.m. and Wednesday from 10 am.until 2 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mr. Cothern, 78, died May 22, 2005, at his residence. He wasborn in Walthall County on Aug. 5, 1926, to Jasper N. Cothern andFlora Inez Dunaway Cothern.

He was a retired utility worker for Haspel and McCombManufacturing. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War. He was amember of the Baptist faith.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his wife, Irene BoydCothern; one brother, Knox Cothern; and a sister, KatherineAnderson.

Survivors are his three sisters, Loe Gene Roberts, of Summit,Willie Ann Lang, of Fernwood, and Josephine Cothern, of McComb;three brothers, Bobbie Cothern, of Beaumont, Texas, CrossieCothern, of Biloxi, and Fairley Cothern, of Vidor, Texas; andnumerous nieces and nephews.

Memorials may be made to Hospice Ministries, 397 Brookhaven St.,Brookhaven MS 39601.