Graveside services for Lonnie Marshall Tisdale, of Brookhaven,are 11 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 1, at Damascus Baptist Church. RiverwoodFamily Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Sunday from 9 until 10:30 a.m. at the funeralhome.

Mr. Tisdale, 89, died Jan. 31, 2009, at King’s Daughters MedicalCenter. He was born on March 13, 1919, to Willie Alexandria Tisdaleand Winnie Sledge Tisdale.

He was a retired self-employed petroleum engineer and a memberof the American Petroleum Institute. He was a member of BolinStreet United Methodist Church. He served in the U.S. Navy duringWorld War II.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his brothers, Curtisand Noel Tisdale; and his sisters, Vera Holcomb and PearlCampbell.

Survivors are his wife, Doris Crane Tisdale; his son, DwainTisdale, of Odessa, Texas; his daughter, Sharon Tisdale Abrams, ofHouston, Texas; his grandchildren, Bill Tisdale, Cori Thane,Candace Hinderer and Misti Gil; many great-grandchildren; hisnieces, Beverly Pickering, Linda Gatlin and Sammye Bailey; hissisters-in-law, Elizabeth Pickering and Margaret Crane; and hisgreat-nephews, Trey and Taylor Bailey.