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 was Sunday from 5 until 8 p.m. and on Monday fromnoon until 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, Eloise Allen, of Brookhaven, Beulah Barber, of Sontag,Anne Armstrong, of Bossier City, La., Audrey Thornton and ChristineBeimbauer, both of Brookhaven, Maricell Dubose, of South Carolina,and Ada Anders, of Brandon; and 10 grandchildren; and sixgreat-grandchildren.