Services for Leonard Washington, of Bogue Chitto, are 2 p.m.Thursday, March 19, at St. Luke M.B. Church in Brookhaven withburial in Rose Hill Church Cemetery in Bogue Chitto.

Visitation is Wednesday from 1 until 7 p.m. at Williams Mortuarywith family present from 6 until 7 p.m.

Mr. Washington, 75, died March 13, 2009, at Silver Cross Home inBrookhaven. He was born in Brookhaven on Dec. 29, 1933, to JosieWashington and Wessie Mae Fields Washington.

He attended Lincoln County Training School. Mr. Washingtonretired from offshore drilling. He was a member of Rose Hill M.B.Church.

Preceding him in death were his parents and several brothers andsisters.

Survivors are his wife, Betty Johnson Washington, of BogueChitto; his sons, Johnny Washington, of Brookhaven, and AlbertWashington, of Chicago, Ill.; a daughter, Helen Marie Washington,of Brookhaven; his stepsons, Johnny Johnson, of District Heights,Md., Lewis E. Johnson, of St. Louis, Mo., Jessie Johnson, of DaleCity, Va., James Johnson, of Lawton, Okla., and Clarence Johnson,of Memphis, Tenn.; his stepdaughters, Tonya Rene Johnson, ofAtlanta, Ga., Caroline Johnson Harper, of Raleigh, N.C., JudiaJohnson Wilcher, of Brookhaven, and Phyllis Ann Wesley, of NewOrleans, La.; his sisters, Josephine Blue and Gayzella Thomas, bothof Brookhaven; his brothers, Robert Washington, Eddie Washingtonand Odis Washington, all of Brookhaven; and his many grandchildren,nieces, nephews and other relatives.