Services for Willie Ferguson Jr. of Brookhaven are 11 a.m.Monday at Collins Temple Church of God in Christ in Bogue Chittowith burial in Springfield Cemetery.

Visitation is today from 2 to 5 p.m. at Tyler Funeral Home.

Mr. Ferguson, 81, died Sept. 28, 2005 at CountryBrook LivingCenter. He was born on May 19, 1924, to Willie Ferguson, Sr. andOzie May Redd Ferguson Hayes.

He was a retired pulpwood hauler. He was a member of CollinsTemple Church of God in Christ.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his wife, NorbellStovall Ferguson; and his brother, James Ferguson.

Survivors are his son, Ronnie Kelly, of Springfield, Mass.; hisdaughter, Margie Ferguson Hardwell, of Chicago, and his sisters,Elnora Ferguson Cooley, of Vallejo, Calif., and Elzadie Moore, ofBogue Chitto.