Services for Leman D. Gandy, of Greenwood, were 3 p.m. Saturday,March 28, at Valley Hill Baptist Church in Greenwood with burial inSardis Baptist Church Cemetery near Hazlehurst on Sunday, March 29.Wilson & Knight Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Gandy, 71, died March 25, 2009, at St. Dominic-JacksonMemorial Hospital in Jackson. He was born on July 24, 1937, toClarence and Estelle Gandy.

He attended Georgetown School in Copiah County. Mr. Gandy servedin the U.S. Marines. He was also a state trooper. He graduated fromthe University of Southern Mississippi, Northwestern UniversityTraffic Institute and Jackson School of Law. He had a successfullaw practice and ran for governor in 1975. Also in the late 1970s,he was instrumental in helping establish D’Iberville as a city. Hemoved to Greenwood in 1988. He was a member Valley Hill BaptistChurch in Greenwood.

Survivors are his wife, Yvonne Gandy, of Greenwood; his sons,Jerry Gandy, of Edwards, Calif., and Mike Summerhill, of Madison;his daughters, Linda Meade, of Biloxi, and Tammy Brown, ofJacksonville, Fla.; and his sisters, Nancy “Tillie” Ashley, ofBrandon, Doris Armstrong, of Wesson, and Wilda Davis, of Sulligent,Ala.