Memorial services for James Weathersby, of Brookhaven, are 2p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, at Lake Lincoln State Park in Wesson. TylerFuneral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Weathersby, 63, died Oct. 13, 2008, at his residence. He wasborn in Lincoln County on July 4, 1945, to Theophas Harvey andMerdrew Rhodes.

He was a former mechanic. He served in the U.S. Army. He was amember of Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witnesses in Brookhaven.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his stepmother,Priscilla Harvey; his stepfather, Houston Weathersby; a brother,R.L. Weathersby; and a sister, Marie Rhodes.

Survivors are his wife, Anna Gayten Weathersby, of Brookhaven;his sons, Stormie Weathersby and wife, Trece, Marcus Weathersby,all of Brookhaven, and Will J. Weathersby and wife, Belinda, ofLeakesville; his daughters, Sharon Weathersby and husband, John,Cloronda Weathersby and husband, Brandon, Kelly Smith and SymikoOwens, all of Brookhaven; his stepdaughters, Talasha Owens, ofBogue Chitto, and Nakenya Owens, of Brookhaven; his brothers, LarryWeathersby, of Chicago, Ill., Houston Weathersby, of Hattiesburg,Michael Collins, of Brookhaven, and Tommy Campbell, of Wesson; hissisters, Bessie Weathersby, of Missouri, Merlee Campbell andhusband, Donald, of Brookhaven, Mary Adams, of Chicago, and LouiseAdams, of Arizona; his 19 grandchildren; and his fivegreat-grandchildren.