Services for Hauta Estella Morris Tanksley, of Monticello, are 2p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, at Sauls Valley Baptist Church inMonticello with burial in the church cemetery. Wilson Funeral Homeis in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is today from 5 until 10 p.m. at the funeral home,and on Wednesday at the church from 10 a.m. until the time of theservice.

Mrs. Tanksley, 81, died Nov. 12, 2006, at Forrest GeneralHospital in Hattiesburg. She was born on March 31, 1925, to JuneMorris and Myrtis Boyd Morris.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of Sauls Valley BaptistChurch. She was a loving wife and mother.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, WilliamThomas “Tommy” Tanksley; her son, Donald Tanksley; her daughter,Irene Tanksley; her brothers, Ellis Morris and Jack Morris; and hersisters, Verlie Rials, Vera Lambert, Rosie Givens and EriaReid.

Survivors are her son, Bobby Wayne Tanksley and wife Melissa, ofWesson; her daughter, Carol Jean Tanksley Keyes and husband Ed, ofMonticello; her seven grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and ahost of nieces and nephews.