Services for Lance A. Smith, of Bogue Chitto, are 11 a.m.Tuesday, Nov. 8 at Gum Grove Baptist Church in Bogue Chitto withburial in the church cemetery.

Visitation is today from 5 to 9 p.m. at Brookhaven Funeral Homeand Tuesday from 10 to 11 a.m. at the church.

Mr. Smith, 32, died Nov. 5, 2005, at King’s Daughters MedicalCenter. He was born in McComb on Feb. 9, 1973, to Virgil M. Smithand Frances Williams Smith.

He was a member of Gum Grove Baptist Church where he was pastpresident of the Baptist Men’s group, a discipleship trainingteacher, a young adult Sunday school class teacher and a member ofthe counting and deposit committee.

Preceding him in death were his grandparents, Lewis E. Smith,Mary Dell Case Smith, and Rayford Williams.

Survivors are his parents, Virgil Smith and Frances W. Smith, ofBogue Chitto; his sisters, Dena Posey and her husband, Mike, andRusti Magee and her husband, Johnny, all of Bogue Chitto; hisgrandmother, Ruby Williams, of Bogue Chitto; his nephews, Ty Poseyand Samuel Lake Posey, both of Bogue Chitto; his nieces, MaryElizabeth Posey, Kylee Parker Posey and Fayth Marie Magee, all ofBogue Chitto.