Services for Ethel Irene McCreary, of West, are 3 p.m. Friday,Oct. 21 at Southern Funeral Home Chapel in Durant with burial inMt. Pleasant Cemetery in West.

Mrs. McCreary, 87, died Oct. 20, 2005, at Hospice In His Handsin Durant. She was born in Holmes County on March 9, 1918, to R.L.Ellis and Evie B. Self.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of Mt. PleasantChurch.

Survivors are her sons, Bill McCreary, of Ripley, Bob McCreary,of Wesson, and Johnny McCreary, of West; her brother, Robert”Buddy” Ellis, of West; her sisters, Mary Lou English, of Durant,Evelyn Long, of Memphis, and Reecy White, of Kosiusko; eightgrandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to Hospice In His Hands, 713 N.W. Ave.Durant, Miss.