Services for Katie Ruth Wilkinson, of Brookhaven, were 11 a.m.Monday, Nov. 23, at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel on Natchez Drivewith burial in Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery.

Mrs. Wilkinson, 74, died Nov. 21, 2009, at her residence. Shewas born in Franklin County on Jan. 12, 1935, to Clem Smith andMildred Dunigan Smith.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of Friendship BaptistChurch.

Preceding her in death were her parents; brothers, Chester Smithand Herman Smith; and a niece, Sue Tibbs.

Survivors are her son W.F. Wilkinson and wife, Samantha, ofBrookhaven; a sister, Irene Lofton, of Brookhaven; a brother,Calvin Smith, of Brookhaven; eight nieces and nephews; and otherrelatives.