Services for Beatrice Walker Smith of Brookhaven are 11 a.m.,Thursday, Dec. 6, at New Sight Baptist Church with burial in NewSight Cemetery.

Visitation is today from 5-9 p.m. at Brookhaven FuneralHome.

Mrs. Smith, 85, died Dec. 4, 2001, at University Medical Centerin Jackson. She was born in Lincoln County on Nov. 24, 1916, toIsaac Walker and Katie Jane Chandler Walker.

She was retired. She was a member of New Sight BaptistChurch.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, James R.Smith; her son, James R. Smith Jr.; her brothers, Walter Walker andOliver Walker; and her sister, Leona Walker Smith.

Survivors are her son and daughters-in-law, Eugene R. and ElaineC. Smith and Linda Smith Smith, all of Brookhaven; her brothers,Roy Lee Walker of Crystal Springs and Henry Bert Walker of Vidalia,La.; her sisters, Lavada Walker Jones and Arcola Walker Taylor,both of Crystal Springs, and Audrey Nell Walker Harrell ofBrookhaven; her grandchildren, Sharon S. Case, Sheree S. Crosby,Michael S. Smith, and Jeffrey E. Smith, all of Brookhaven, andShelley S. Lee of Denham Springs, La.; and tengreat-grandchildren.