Services for Joe P. Newsome, of Monticello, are 2 p.m. Friday,Jan. 27 at Oak Grove M.B. Church in Monticello with burial inBethany Church Cemetery in Jayess.

Visitation is today from noon until 5 p.m. at R.E. Tyler FuneralHome.

Mr. Newsome, 53, died Jan. 23, 2006, in Monticello. He was bornon May 20, 1952, to Fannie Newsome.

He was disabled. He served in the Army. He was a member of OakGrove M.B. Church.

Preceding him in death were his mother; his sisters, Lula Maeand Frankie Newsome.

Survivors are his wife, Larissa Regar Newsome, of Monticello;and his sister, Mary Newsome, of Monticello.