Services for Eric Sanders, of Brookhaven, are 1 p.m. Thursday,July 24, at Alexander Junior High School auditorium with burial inCarver Heights Cemetery.

Visitation is Wednesday from noon until 8 p.m. at R.E. TylerFuneral Home with family present from 7 until 8 p.m.

Mr. Sanders, 61, died July 17, 2008, at G.V. (Sonny) MontgomeryVA Medical Center in Jackson. He was born in Brookhaven on March 1,1947, to John Calvin “J.C.” Sanders and Mary Christine Sanders,both of Brookhaven.

He was a disabled veteran and worked at the sheriff’sdepartment. He served in the U.S. Army during Vietnam. He was amember of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Brookhavenand was affiliated with the VFW Post 4806, and was a member of theElks.

Survivors are his parents; a daughter, Linda Wingfield, ofClinton; his sisters, Sherry S. Washington, of Brookhaven, and AnnSanders Carr, of Starkville; and his two grandchildren.