Services for Joe “Papa” Banks Jr., of Brookhaven, will be heldat 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 22, at St. Paul Missionary BaptistChurch in Brookhaven with burial in Rose Hill Missionary BaptistChurch Cemetery in Brookhaven. Williams Mortuary is in charge ofarrangements.

Visitation is Friday from 1 until 7 p.m. at the funeral home,with family hour from 6 until 7 p.m.

Mr. Banks, 54, died March 16, 2008, at King’s Daughters MedicalCenter. He was born in Lincoln County on March 6, 1954, to JoeBanks Sr. and Clementine Banks.

He was a logger for over 30 years. He was employed with BradSmith Logging. He was a member of Watkins Memorial Chapel.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his sisters, Alice MaeBanks and Carolyn Banks Brown.

Survivors are his wife, Pauline Bolds Banks, of Brookhaven; hissons, Micheal Bryant, Kerrick Bryant, Don Bolds and Samuel Johnson,all of Brookhaven; his brothers, Johnny Banks and wife Dora, RalphBanks and wife Lorraine, Charles Banks and wife Shirley, DannyBanks and wife Joyce, Percy Banks, Hollis Banks and wifeEvangeline, all of Brookhaven; his sisters, Willie Ruth Banks,Bertha Gayten, Mae Ethel Wilcher and husband Willie D., all ofBrookhaven, and Amy Nell Brothern and husband Jessie, of Wesson;his special mother-in-law, Katherine Bolds, of Brookhaven; and manynieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.