Funeral services for Preston Delinn Morse, of Brookhaven, are 1p.m. Tuesday, June 1, at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel on NatchezDrive, with burial in Union Hall Baptist Church Cemetery inBrookhaven.

Visitation is Tuesday from 8 a.m. until the time of the serviceat the funeral home.

Mr. Morse, 76, died May 29, 2010, at Mississippi Baptist MedicalCenter in Jackson. He was born on March 28, 1934, to Robert PrestonMorse and Bertha Thedford Morse.

Mr. Morse was born and reared in Dentville. He met and marriedhis wife while working at the factory. He was an accomplished,self-employed welder for most of his working days. He will beremembered as a loving husband, father, brother, father-in-law,grandfather, great-grandfather and friend. He had character and wasone, too. He loved playing the guitar and singing for hisgrandchildren, working in the garden, catering and cooking forlocal benefits and organizations. Shrimp and catfish were hisspecialties. He filled his family’s lives with memories to cherishof love and laughter for a lifetime.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his sisters, ThelmaMorse and Virginia Morse; his brothers, Rufus Morse, Morton Morse,Lamar Morse and Benjamin Morse.

Survivors are his wife of 54 years, Lavada G. Morse, ofBrookhaven; his sons, Mike Emfinger and wife Regina, of Perry,Fla., Roger Morse and wife Suzanne, of Smithdale, and Darrell Morseand wife Twyana, of Brookhaven; his daughters, Jenny Morse Gordonand Sandra K. Hall, both of Brookhaven; his sisters, Lucille Clarkand husband Bill, of Vicksburg, and Evelyn Brown, of Great Falls,Mont.; and his 14 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.