Funeral services for Edwin Brown Dodds, of Hazlehurst, are Friday, May 19, 2017, at 2 p.m. at Stringer Funeral Home in Hazlehurst with burial at Hazlehurst Cemetery.

Visitation will be today, May 18, 2017, from 5 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mr. Dodds, 74, died Sunday, May 14, 2017, at Select Specialty Hospital in Jackson. He was a longtime resident of the Hazlehurst community.  He was a rural mail carrier and a cattleman for many years.  He and his wife operated Emma’s Car Lot on Highway 28 West.

He was preceded in death by his daughter, Cheryl Anne Dodds; and son, Jerry Matthew Dodds. 

Survivors are his wife, Emma Farrar Dodds, of Hazlehurst; son, Michael Tully Dodds, of Hazlehurst; daughter, Leslie Williamson, of Wesson; grandchildren, Jerald Corey Sykes, of Wesson and Shannon Erwin, of Hazlehurst; four great-grandchildren, Lilli-Anne Sykes, Jerry Corey Wayne Johnson, Jimmie Dalaney Erwin and Autumn Lee Erwin.