Services for Bula C. Metz, of Brookhaven, were 11 a.m. Monday,Jan. 1, at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel on Natchez Drive withburial in Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery in Brookhaven.

Mrs. Metz, 77, died Dec. 30, 2006, at her home. She was born inSontag on Aug. 12, 1929, to Otto Cox and Leona Cook Cox.

She was a retired secretary to the athletic director ofLouisiana State University in Baton Rouge, La. She was a member ofPleasant Grove Baptist Church. She attended Montreat College inNorth Carolina.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her son, Frank GlennMetz Jr.; her brothers, Jode Cox and Buddy Cox; and her sister,Billie Jean Harris.

Survivors are her husband, Frank Glenn Metz, of Brookhaven; hersons, Roddie Metz and wife, Shari W., of Greenwell Springs, La.,Ricky Metz and wife, Linda, of Tylertown, and Randy Metz and wife,Gladys, of Freeport, Texas; her daughter, Sue Ann Hibbard andhusband, Randy, of Walker, La.; her brothers, Jackie Cox and wife,Roberta, of Texas, and Richard Cox and wife, Connie, of Arkansas;her sister Marlene Brumfield and husband, Jack, of Zawala, La., andJoyce Pardue and husband, Raymond, of Greenwell Springs, La.; andher 15 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Metz’s grandsons will serve as pallbearers.