Services for Dwight Ernest Waddell, of Brookhaven, are 12:30p.m. Saturday, Nov. 28, at Riverwood Family Funeral Service Chapelin Brookhaven.

Visitation is noon Saturday at the funeral home.

Mr. Waddell, 81, died Nov. 9, 2009, at the University ofMississippi Medical Center. He was born on Nov. 12, 1927, to JohnWaddell and Marcella Bretz Waddell.

He was a geologist with Shell Oil Co. He was a part of the U.S.Air Force. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church inBrookhaven.

Preceding him in death were his parents, John Waddell andMarcella Bretz Waddell; and a brother, Dean Waddell.

Survivors are his wife, Sara S. Waddell; a son, Dwight E.Waddell II and wife, Nancy, of Oxford; his daughters, Mary W. Burgeand husband, Tucker, of Birmingham, Ala., Jane M. Waddell and Tracyand Alice E. Waddell and Elaine, all of New Orleans, La.; abrother-in-law, Bill Sikes; his brothers- and sisters-in-law, Billyand Flora Jones and George and Ava Nell Sikes; a sister-in-law,Peggy Wadell; his three grandchildren, Tucker Burge, Margaret Burgeand Katherine Waddell; and a host of nieces and nephews.

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