Services for Ruby Helen Allen Tryals, of Mendenhall, are 2 p.m.Monday, May 14, at Brookhaven Funeral Home, Natchez Drive location,with burial in the New Salem Baptist Church Cemetery in FranklinCounty.

Visitation is Sunday from 5 until 8 p.m. and Monday from noonuntil 2 p.m. at the funeral home.

Ms. Tryals, 69, died May 10, 2007, at her residence. She wasborn in Franklin County on Dec. 26, 1937, to Ephriam Augusta Allenand Eunice Alverna Cupit Allen.

She was a homemaker. She had worked for Southern Life andInsurance Co., and Service Merchandise. She was a member of NewSalem Baptist Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents and a sister, MarieMinton.

Survivors are her son, James Edward Chisholm, of Beaumont,Texas; her daughters, Janice Elaine Buckley, of Baton Rouge, La.,Juanica Kay Thode, of Monroe, La., and Helen Christine Rusk, ofBrookfield, Ohio; her brother, Willard Mohon, of Vidalia, La., hersisters, Beulah Barber, of Sontag, Anne Armstrong, of Bossier City,La., Audrey Thornton and Christine Beimbauer, both of Brookhaven,Maricell Dubose, of South Carolina, and Ada Anders, of Brandon; and10 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.