Services for Robert “Bay Bay” Bethley Jr., of Bude, will be heldat 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 7, at Bude Church of God in Christ withburial in Zion Cemetery in Roxie. Marshall Funeral Home is incharge of arrangements.

Visitation is Friday from noon until 5 p.m. at the funeral homein Bude, and on Saturday at the church from 11 a.m. until the timeof the service.

Mr. Bethley, 54, died May 31, 2008, at his residence. He wasborn in Franklin County on March 9, 1954, to Robert and ElizabethReed Bethley.

Preceding him in death were his parents; and his brothers, JerryRees and Willie Bethley.

Survivors are his daughters, Tonya Hudson, of Wilson, N.C., andLeslie Ray, of Gulfport; his sons, Mandell Griffin, of Duarte,Calif., Victor Bailey, of Brookhaven, and Robert Bethley III, ofMcComb; his sisters, Bobbie Robinson, Rose Pernell and CarlaBethley, all of Bude, and Theresa Daniels, of Duarte; his brothers,Bruce Bethley, of Bude, Kenny Bethley and Lee Andrew Bethley, bothof Meadville; a maternal aunt; two maternal uncles; 10grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives andfriends.