Services for Marilyn M. Cotton, of Brookhaven, are 4 p.m.Sunday, Jan. 17, at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel on Natchez Drivewith burial in Easthaven Cemetery.

Mrs. Cotton, 55, died Jan. 15, 2010, at Southwest MississippiRegional Medical Center. She was born in Dublin on April 3, 1954,to Otis D. Higginbotham and Eunice Kiger Higginbotham.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of the Church of God.

Preceding her in death were her parents; and her sister,Patricia Berry.

Survivors are her son, Samuel Higginbotham and wife, Rachael, ofChesapeake, Va.; her sisters, Martha Grice, of Pearl, Carol Boyteand Sue Barnett, both of Brookhaven, and Wanda Rowe, of Midland,Texas; her grandchildren, Austin, Samuel Jr., Christen, Elijah andLevi Higginbotham; and her companion of 11 years, Lee Allen, ofBrookhaven.