Services for Ollie Mae Ward, of Monticello, are 2 p.m. Friday,Dec. 8, at Monticello Baptist Church with burial in Arm BaptistChurch Cemetery. Wilson Funeral Home in Monticello is in charge ofarrangements.

Visitation is today from 5 until 9 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Ward, 83, died Dec. 6, 2006, at Lawrence County Hospital,in Monticello. She was born on Jan. 8, 1923, to Russie Clay Dyerand Alma E. Duncan Dyer.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of Monticello BaptistChurch.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Isom SwannWard, and her brother.

Survivors are her son, Cecil Swann Ward, of Monticello; herdaughters, Alma Ilene Buffington, of Hattiesburg, and Angela WardGarrett, of Monticello; and her 10 grandchildren and 14great-grandchildren.