Services for Sharron Lambert Pickering, of Natchez, are 11 a.m.Thursday, July 14 at Laird Funeral Home Union Street Chapel withburial at 2 p.m. at Union Baptist Church Cemetery inBrookhaven.

Visitation is today from 5-8 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Pickering, 53, died July 12, 2005, at Natchez RegionalMedical Center. She was born in Franklin Parish, La., on Oct. 16,1951, to John Edward and Montie Sue Knox Lambert Sr.

She was a member of Stanton Baptist Church.

Survivors are her mother, Montie Sue Lambert; her daughters,Melissa Strittman Hallman, of Alabama, and Virginia Courtney, ofVirginia; her sons, Donny Strittman, of Alabama, and ChipPickering, of Natchez; her sisters, Judy Lambert McReynolds, ofBaton Rouge, La., Lorraine Henderson, of Natchez, and CarolynLambert Burchfield, of Natchez; her brother, James Lambert, ofNatchez; six grandchildren; and several nieces, nephews and manyfriends.