Services for Neva McWhorter, of Monticello, are 11 a.m.Saturday, Aug. 20 at Wilson Funeral Home in Monticello with burialin Bay Springs City Cemetery.

Visitation is Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Russell, 95, died Aug. 18, 2005, at the Lawrence CountyNursing Center in Monticello. She was born on Aug. 28, 1909, toBenjamin Cullen McWhorter and Beulah Sweat McWhorter.

She was a retired schoolteacher and owner of a dress shop in BaySprings for 30 years. She grew up in Hattiesburg. She was a memberof the garden clubs in both Monticello and Bay Springs. She was anactive member of Monticello United Methodist Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Glen H.Russell; a son, Joe Lynn Russell; one sister; and fivebrothers.

Survivors are her sister, Elsie Doyle Kensington, of Maryland; herbrother, Maurice McWhorter, of Winston-Salem, N.C.; and a host ofnieces and nephews.