Joseph “Joey” Clinton Melancon III

Graveside services for Joseph “Joey” Clinton Melancon III, ofBrookhaven, are 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, at Greer Cemetery inJayess. Riverwood Family Funeral Service is in charge ofarrangements.

Mr. Melancon, 49, died Sept. 20, 2008, at his residence. He wasborn in Lawrence County on May 29, 1959, to Joseph Clinton MelanconII and Mary Jacqueline Summers Morgan.

He attended Barber College and completed Chef College. He workedas a professional chef in Hammond, Las Vegas and New Orleans. Hishobbies included catering, drawing and painting as well as home andinterior decorating work. He was of the Pentecostal faith.

Preceding him in death were his mother; and a grandfather, GradyLee Carr.

Survivors are his father; his brothers, David Michael Boyd andwife, Glenda, of Jayess, and David Clinton Melancon and wife,Kelly, of Baton Rouge, La.; a sister, Rebecca B. Gwin and husband,Kerry, of Brookhaven; his grandmother, Doris Cain Carr, ofMonticello; and a host of aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews, who heloved and was close to.

Martha Juanita McDonald

Services for Martha Juanita McDonald, of Pensacola, Fla., are 2p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 23, at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel on NorthJackson Street with burial in Easthaven Cemetery in Brookhaven.

Mrs. McDonald, 69, died Sept. 20, 2008, at Sacred Heart Hospitalin Pensacola. She was born in Brookhaven on Feb. 23, 1939, to W.P.Leggett and Mary Leggett.

She was a homemaker. She was of the Protestant faith.

Preceding her in death were her parents.

Survivors are her husband, Clarence Millard McDonald Sr., ofPensacola; her sons, Clarence Millard McDonald Jr. and David EarlMcDonald, both of Pensacola; her daughters, Martha Suzanne Butlerand Karen Lynn Marretti, both of Pensacola; a brother, R.C.Leggett, of Laurel; a sister, Ethel Sandahl, of Baton Rouge, La.;and her 10 grandchildren.

Mary Alice White Smith

Services for Mary Alice White Smith, of Bogue Chitto, are 2 p.m.Wednesday, Sept. 24, at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel on NatchezDrive with burial in Harris-Rawls Cemetery in Bogue Chitto.

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

Mrs. Smith, 54, died Sept. 21, 2008, at Central MississippiMedical Center in Jackson. She was born in Leland on Oct. 17, 1953,to Prentiss Thomas White and Geneva Richardson White.

She was a homemaker and disabled.

Preceding her in death were her parents; a brother, PrentissLoyd White; and a sister, Betty Jean White.

Survivors are her husband, Sam J. Smith, of Bogue Chitto; herfive sisters, Gerldean Cade and husband, Lanny, Peggy Allgood andhusband, Clayton, Betty Ferrell Pace and husband, Joel, all ofBrookhaven, Annie Brownell and husband, William, of Summit, andCarolyn Walton and husband, John, of Tampa, Fla.

Merrose G. Wallace

Merrose G. Wallace, of Summit, died Sept. 22, 2008 atMississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson.

Visitation will be Tuesday from 5 until 8 p.m. at Jones FamilyFuneral Services in McComb with visitation again on Wednesday fromnoon until services there at 2 p.m. The Rev. Rick Kennedy willofficiate. Burial will be at Montgomery Cemetery in Summit.

Mrs. Wallace was born May 5, 1935, in Lincoln County. She wasthe daughter of Earl Rufus Gatlin and Frank Helen Bradley.

She was a homemaker and member of New Heights Baptist Church.She was a loving mother and grandmother. She will be sadly missedby her family and friends.

Mrs. Wallace was preceded in death by her parents.

She is survived by her husband of 58 years, James E. Wallace, ofSummit; her two sons, Keith Wallace and wife, Karen “Koko”, ofMcComb, and Steve R. Wallace and wife, Jennie, of Summit; her twodaughters, Regina W. Sinclair and husband, Bill, of Summit, andCathy W. Ditcharo and husband, Wade, of Brookhaven; a sister,Patricia Thomas, of Baton Rouge, La., her 10 grandchildren and twogreat-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be her five grandsons, Jamie Wallace, DixonSinclair, Anthony Ditcharo, Dustin Sinclair and Elliot Wallace withJohn Ivey assisting.

Honorary Pallbearers will be her two great-grandsons, AustinSinclair and Dylan Ditcharo.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to New Heights BaptistChurch Building Fund, 5140 Hwy. 98 W., Summit, MS 39666.