Services for James Edwin “Ed” Russell, of Brookhaven, are 2 p.m.today, Dec. 20 at Harrigill Funeral Home Chapel with burial inEasthaven Cemetery.

Mr. Russell, 76, died Dec. 17, 2005, at Forrest General Hospitalin Hattiesburg. He was born in Ruth on Feb. 26, 1929, to J. BensonRussell Sr. and Wadie Brister Russell.

He was an over-the-road truck driver for Campbell (66) Expressand a cattle farmer. He was a member of Easthaven Baptist Church.He and his wife, Ginny, would have been married 57 years onChristmas Day.

Preceding him in death were his parents; three brothers, J.B.Russell Jr., Huey P. Russell and Boyce Russell; and five sisters,Pauline Woodrow, Helen Falvey, Dora Mae Allen, Virginia Toomer andBetty Drake.

Survivors are his wife, Alma F. “Ginny” Russell, of Brookhaven;his daughters, Judy R. Patt, of Brookhaven, and Amanda R. Artmannand her husband, James “Buddy” Artmann Sr., of Bogue Chitto; onesister, Yvonne Russell, of Brookhaven; six grandchildren, JamesPatt and his wife, Melissa, Jennifer Dickerson and her husband,Chris, Rebecca Jordan Schrader and her husband, Shannon, RachelJordan Williams and her husband, Jacob, Regina Jordan and MatthewJordan; and six great-grandchildren