Services for Lottie Carpenter Neal, of Monticello, are 2 p.m.Sunday, March 18, at Harrigill Funeral Home Chapel with burial inStrong Hope Baptist Church Cemetery in Copiah County.

Mrs. Neal, 72, died March 16, 2007, at University of MississippiMedical Center. She was born in Copiah County on Jan. 7, 1935, toHenry Lee Thedford and Fannie Beatrice Henley Thedford.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of Strong Hope BaptistChurch.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husbands, CharlesCurtis Carpenter and John Lee Neal; her daughter, Sharon DeniseNeal; and her brothers, Walter Lee Thedford and James WalterThedford.

Survivors are her sons, Russell Carpenter, of Wesson, and GregCarpenter, of Brookhaven; her daughter, Patricia Lynn Allen, ofBraxton; and her seven grandchildren and fourgreat-grandchildren.