Services for Ruby Paxton of Brookhaven are 11 a.m., Friday, May23, at Center Street Church of Christ with burial in HillcrestCemetery.

Visitation is Thursday from noon until 7 p.m., with family hourfrom 6-7 p.m., at Williams Mortuary.

Mrs. Paxton, 73, died May 17, 2003, at her residence. She wasborn in Lincoln County on March 13, 1930, to Will Henderson andArdella Henderson.

She was retired. She was a member of Center Street Church ofChrist.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, SheltonPaxton; four brothers, Charles Henderson, Arthur Henderson, MarzellHenderson and Arvell Henderson; and three sisters, Willie MaeFriday, Lizzie Williams and Inez Henderson.

Survivors are her son, Bobby Paxton of Brookhaven; her daughtersand son-in-law, Carolyn and Frenchie Butler of Brookhaven, andShirley Paxton of Jackson; her brothers and sister-in-law, JamesLee Henderson of Brookhaven, and Epharim and Linda Henderson ofChicago, Ill.; her sister, Mary McClain of Chicago; and hergrandson, Ricky Paxton of Brookhaven.