Hugh Belton Sr.

Published 7:35 pm Thursday, January 28, 2010

Services for Hugh Belton Sr., of Brookhaven, are 3 p.m.Saturday, Jan. 30, at St. James Missionary Baptist Church inBrookhaven with burial in Hillcrest Cemetery. R.E. Tyler FuneralHome is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Friday from noon until 8 p.m. at the funeral home,with family present from 7 until 8 p.m.

Mr. Belton, 81, died Jan. 25, 2010, at the Michael E. DeBakey VAMedical Center in Houston, Texas. He was born in Lincoln County onApril 19, 1928, to Odell Belton and Mamie Harrington Belton.

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He was a self-employed barber for 45 years. He was a member U.S.Army veteran.

Preceding him in death were his parents, and his sister, MargaretFairman.

Survivors are his son, Hugh Belton Jr., of Duncanville, Texas; hisdaughters, Katrina Williams, of Pearland, Texas, and Brenda Belton,of Houston, Texas; his brother, James Belton, of Los Angeles,Calif.; his seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.