Graveside services for Avon M. French, of Eightmile, Ala., are 3p.m. today, Dec. 14 at Greenlawn Cemetery in Natchez. BrookhavenFuneral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. French, 76, died Dec. 12, 2005, in Saraland, Ala. She wasborn in Carson on Feb. 10, 1929, to Avon McCrimmon and LougeniaGamble McCrimmon Loftin.

She was retired from Ketchings Printing Co. in Natchez. Sheattended LaFitte Baptist Church in Saraland. She was a member ofthe Order of the Eastern Star.

Preceding her in death were her parents; and her husband, JohnDuncan French.

Survivors are her sister, Shirley Sutter, of Pascagoula; and herbrother, Cyril Loftin, of Mobile.