Services for Bernard Wallace, of Bogue Chitto, are 11 a.m.Friday, Jan. 2, at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel on Natchez Drivewith burial in Arlington Baptist Church Cemetery.

Visitation is Thursday from 5 until 8 p.m. at the funeral homeon Natchez Drive.

Mr. Wallace, 79, died Dec. 30, 2008, at his residence. He wasborn in Bogue Chitto on July 13, 1929, to Zack Wallace and BertBrown Wallace.

He was an oil field worker. He served in the U.S. Marines. Hewas of the Baptist faith.

Preceding him in death were his parents.

Survivors are his wife, Linda Wallace, of Bogue Chitto; a son,Conley Wallace, of Houma, La.; his stepsons, Barney Russell Jr. andLawrence Russell, both of Bogue Chitto; a daughter, Jill Loupe andhusband, Michael, of Houma; his sisters, Bernice Adams, of BogueChitto, and Jewel Faye Case, of McCall Creek; his threegrandchildren; and his two great-grandchildren.