Services for Willie Ray Madison, of Monticello, are 11 a.m.Wednesday, April 6 at China Lee M.B. Church in Silver Creek withburial in Pearl River Valley Cemetery in Monticello.

Visitation is Tuesday from noon until 7 p.m. with family presentfrom 6-7 p.m. at R.E. Tyler Funeral Home.

Mr. Madison, 56, died March 30, 2005, at Lawrence County NursingCenter. He was born in Monticello on March 4, 1949, to WillWeathersby of Detroit, Mich., and Cora Stanfield Stringer.

He was a public transit bus driver for Monticello and JeffersonDavis County. He was a member of New Life Fellowship Church inMonticello.

Preceding him in death was his mother.

Survivors are his father; his sister, Virginia Hill, of Detroit;and his brothers, Retuis Stanfield, of Monticello, and ClarkMadison, of Gulfport.