Services for Melvin Gordon O’Neal, of Natchez, are 2 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 13, at Community Chapel Church of God in Natchezwith burial in Union Church Cemetery. Laird Funeral Home in Natchezis in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Friday from 5 until 8 p.m. at Laird Funeral HomeUnion Street Chapel in Natchez and on Saturday at the church from 1p.m. until the time of the service.

Mr. O’Neal, 49, died Jan. 10, 2007, at Natchez Regional MedicalCenter. He was born in Natchez on April 5, 1957, to George and LelaLee Moore O’Neal.

Survivors are his wife, Martha O’Neal, of Natchez; his parents,George and Jennie O’Neal, of Junction City, Kan.; his brothers,David K. O’Neal and George O’Neal Jr., both of Junction City; andhis grandmother, Stella Moore, of Union Church.