Memorial services for Melvin A. ‘Miami’ Johnson Jr., ofMeadville, will be held at a later date in St. Helen, Fla.Brookhaven Funeral Home’s Natchez Drive location is in charge ofarrangements.

Visitation is Sunday from 4 until 9 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mr. Johnson, 63, died March 13, 2009, at River Oaks Hospital inFlowood. He was born in Florida on April 24, 1945, to Melvin A.Johnson Sr. and Julie Ann Stone Johnson.

He was a crane operator. He was of the Baptist faith.

Preceding him in death were his parents; and his wife, SheliaJohnson.

Survivors are his daughters, Cindy Palmer and husband, Wilson”Neno,” of McCall Creek, and Rhonda Gross, of Smithdale; and hisgrandchildren, Christina Palmer, Victoria Palmer, Nicolas Palmer,Thomas Gross and Ginifer Gross.