Services for Ruble Joe Bowman of Brookhaven are 4 p.m., Monday,Aug. 18, at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel with burial in BowmanFamily Cemetery in the Loyd Star community.

Visitation is Monday from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m., at the funeralhome.

Mr. Bowman, 62, died Aug. 16, 2003, at King’s Daughters MedicalCenter. He was born in Vernon, Ala., to Olen Edmond Bowman andVelma Lee Campbell Bowman.

He was a self-employed logger, and a member of the Church of Godfaith.

Preceding him in death were his parents; and two brothers, RedusBowman and Martin Bowman.

Survivors are his wife, Elaine Wagner Bowman of Brookhaven; hisdaughters, Charlotte Lambert and Rachel Adams, both of Jayess, andPatricia Minton of McComb; his sons, Randy Joe Bowman ofBrookhaven, and Danny Joe Bowman of McComb; his sisters, Inez B.Case, Annie B. Alexander, Edna B. Wilson and Jeanette B. Greene,all of Brookhaven, Elette B. Zeini of Jackson, and Billie Jo Bowmanof Texas; his brothers, Clatus Bowman, Rayborn Bowman, R. B.Bowman, Dennis Bowman, Jimmie Bowman, Kenneth Bowman and TimmieBowman, all of Brookhaven; and nine grandchildren.