Services for Norma Louise Thomas, of Bogue Chitto, will be heldat 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 13, at Riverwood Family FuneralService Chapel with burial in Union Baptist Church Cemetery.

Visitation is Wednesday from 5 until 9 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mrs. Thomas, 69, died March 11, 2008, at Lacombe Nursing Centerin Lacombe, La. She was born on May 20, 1938, to Oscar Vallery andEllen Norsworthy Vallery.

She was retired from New Haven Recovery Center. She was a memberof Wise Memorial Baptist Church in Lena, La. She was a member ofWomen of the Moose Lodge No. 1967.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, BillyPayne Thomas Sr.; and a son, Ricky Thomas.

Survivors are her sons, Billy Thomas and wife Sandra, and MarkWayne Thomas and wife Melissa, all of Brookhaven; her daughter,Rebecca Louise “Becky” Lodes and husband Mike, of Picayune; hersisters, Mary Vercher, of New Iberia, La., and Carol Kilpatrick, ofBastrop, La.; her seven grandchildren and ninegreat-grandchildren.