Services for Lafon O. Aker, of Brookhaven, are 11 a.m. Saturday,Jan. 3, at Riverwood Family Funeral Service Chapel with burial inRiverwood Memorial Park.

Visitation is Saturday from 9 until 11 a.m. at the funeralhome.

Mrs. Aker, 73, died Jan. 1, 2009, at The University ofMississippi Medical Center in Jackson. She was born on Oct. 9,1935, to V.E. Oyler and Faye Spurlock Oyler.

She was a retired school secretary. She was a member of BrookwayChurch of Christ.

Preceding her in death were her parents; and a nephew, MikeOyler.

Survivors are her a son, Shannon E. Aker and wife, Robyn, ofBrookhaven; a brother, Glenn Oyler and wife, Faye, of Jonesboro,Ark.; and her two grandchildren, Allison and Leslie Ann Aker.