Graveside services for James T. Broome, of Zachary, La., are 2p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15 at Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Sumrall.Brookhaven Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Broome, 73, died Nov. 12, 2005, at his residence. He wasborn in Jackson on Feb. 13, 1932, to Lonnie Broome and LennieHorton Broome.

He had lived in Zachary for the past two years, but hadpreviously lived in Baton Rouge since 1957. He was a retired pipefitter with the Local 198 and was a 32nd-Degree Mason.

Preceding him in death were his parents.

Survivors are his wife of 51 years, Mable Broome, of Zachary.;his sons, Lonnie Dale Broome, of Zachary, and Danny Ray Broome, ofGonzales, La.; his sister, Lessie Merle Newcomb, of Huntsville,Ala.; three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and a numberof cousins, who were like his brothers and sisters.