Services for Annette R. Schmidt, of Sontag, were held at 11 a.m.on Thursday, May 8, at Shiloh Baptist Church in Sontag with burialin the church cemetery. Wilson Funeral Home in Monticello is incharge of arrangements.

Mrs. Schmidt, 77, died May 6, 2008, at Mississippi BaptistMedical Center in Jackson. She was born in Wanilla on March 26,1931, to William Rush and Mattie Ballew Rush.

She was a retired district manager for World Book Encyclopedia.She was a member of Shiloh Baptist Church in Sontag.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her son, Roy AllenSchmidt Jr.; and her three brothers.

Survivors are her husband, Roy Schmidt, of Sontag; her sons,Mark Irvin Schmidt, of Corsicana, Texas, and Stephen EdwardSchmidt, of Sontag; her daughters, Esther Schmidt Martin, ofSontag, Suzanne Rebekah Schmidt, of Monticello, and Anita SchmidtClements, of Hallsville, Texas; her sister, Charlsie Ann Winston,of Covington, La.; her eight grandchildren and twogreat-grandchildren.