Services for Eunice E. Rutland, of Jayess, are 11 a.m. Saturday,June 23, at Topeka Baptist Church in Jayess with burial in RobertsMemorial Cemetery in Jayess. Wilson Funeral Home in Monticello isin charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Friday from 5 until 9 p.m. at the funeral home, andon Saturday at the church from 10 a.m. until the time of theservice.

Mrs. Rutland, 89, died June 20, 2007, at Lawrence County NursingHome. She was born on May 27, 1918, to Horace Lambert and MinnieBullock Lambert.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of of Topeka Baptist Church,where she was the last surviving charter member.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Maxie S.Rutland; her son, Maxie Carey Rutland; her daughter, Jo Ann R.Douglas; her grandchild, Maxie Keith Rutland; and her five brothersand six sisters.

Survivors are her grandchildren, Ben H. Douglas II, of Veneta,Ore., Pamela Douglas Solomont, of Johnson City, Tenn., MichealRutland, of Ruth, Michelle Rutland, Clay Rutland and MauriceRutland, all of Jayess, and Melanie Rutland Cantrell, ofHattiesburg; her 11 great-grandchildren; and threegreat-great-grandchildren.