Services for Richard “Ricky” Dean Diamond, of Brookhaven, are 2p.m. Wednesday, July 30, at Clear Branch Baptist Church inBrookhaven with burial in the church cemetery. Riverwood FamilyFuneral Service Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

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

Mr. Diamond, 52, died July 28, 2008, at the University ofMississippi Medical Center in Jackson. He was born on April 2,1956, to Jim Diamond and Virgie Ruth Lofton Diamond.

He was a self-employed logger. He was a member of Clear BranchBaptist Church.

Preceding him in death were his parents.

Survivors are a son, Chris Diamond and wife, Scottie; hisbrothers, Jimmy Diamond and wife, Sandra, and Ronnie Diamond andwife, Doris; a sister, Carolyn Diamond Day and husband, Jack; andhis two grandchildren, Cooper Barlow and Conner Diamond.