Services for Wood L. Thornhill, of Bogalusa, La., are 2:30 p.m.Saturday, Sept. 17 at Poole Funeral Home in Bogalusa.

Visitation is Saturday from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mr. Thornhill, 89, died Sept. 9, 2005, at Ville Platte, La.,after being evacuated from a Slidell nursing facility ahead of thehurricane. He was born in Brookhaven on Sept. 25, 1916, to John andNettie Boyte Thornhill, of Brookhaven.

He graduated from East Lincoln School and served in World WarII. He was a retired Allstate Insurance agent.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his wife, Martiel PellThornhill; his daughter, Sherry Thornhill Seals; his brother, J.H.Thornhill Jr., of Brookhaven, Jack Thornhill, of Jackson, andForest Thornhill, of La Place, La.

Survivors are his sons, Tommy and David Thornhill, of Slidell;his sister, Polly Thornhill Hagan, of Brookhaven; his brother,Collins, of Port Arthur, La.; his grandchildren; and several niecesand nephews.