Services for Hosea Corley Jr., of Brookhaven, are 11 a.m.Friday, June 19, at St. Mark M.B. Church in Brookhaven with burialin Friendship Cemetery in Brookhaven.

Visitation is Thursday from noon until 6 p.m. at R.E. TylerFuneral Home.

Mr. Corley, 76, died June 13, 2009, at the University Hospitalin New Orleans, La. He was born in Brookhaven on Jan. 8, 1933, toHosea Corley Sr. and Ethel Corley.

He was a former landscaper.

Preceding him in death were his parents; and a son, EarlCorley.

Survivors are his wife, Samantha Ball Corley, of Brookhaven; hissons, Steven Corley, Calvin Corley, of New Orleans, Ronald Corley,of Brookhaven, Lionel Corley, of Slidell, La.; his daughters,Ethelena Bolen, of New Orleans, and Jacqueline Ann Corley, ofBrookhaven; his brothers, David Corley, of Crystal Springs, andCharlie Corley, of Huntsville, Ala.; his sisters, Marylou Butler,of New Orleans, and Gladys Combre, of Huntsville; his 11grandchildren; and his 13 great-grandchildren.