Services for Ellis D. Howell of Monticello are 2 p.m., today atCalvary United Pentecostal Church with burial in the churchcemetery.

Visitation is today until 2 p.m., at the church. Wilson FuneralHome is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Howell, 56, died Dec. 29, 2002, at Wesley Medical Center inHattiesburg. He was born Sept. 10, 1946.

He was a retired pipeline worker. He was a member of CalvaryUnited Pentecostal Church. He was a Tylertown native.

Preceding him in death were his father, Willie Rufus Howell; oneson, James Boyd Howell; and one grandson, Joe Rutland.

Survivors are his wife, Margaret Ketring Howell of Monticello;his mother, Margaret Dunaway Howell Williams of McComb; his son,Ellis Denver Howell Jr. of Monticello; his daughters, DarleneRutland, Virginia Ann Dunaway, Teresa Lynn Rutland and Sandra Ruby,all of Monticello, and Tammy Martin of Silver Creek; his brother,Wade Boyd of Monticello; his sisters, Shirley Alexander of Jayess,Wilda Coon and Sheila Coon, both of McComb, and Janice Harney ofTenn.; and 12 grandchildren.