Services for J.D. Blue of Brookhaven are 11 a.m. Saturday atCenter Street Church of Christ with burial in Hillcrest Cemetery.Tyler Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Friday from noon to 7 p.m. with a family hour from6-7 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mr. Blue, 53, died Sept. 17, 2005, at Southwest MississippiRegional Medical Center in McComb. He was born in Brookhaven onApril 1, 1952, to Josephine Tucker of Brookhaven and the lateSeavey Blue.

He was disabled. He served in the Mississippi Army NationalGuard during the Vietnam era.

Survivors are his mother; his brothers, M.L. Blue of Oakland,Calif., J.W. Washington of Jackson and O.C. Tucker of Broookhaven;his sisters, Mayflower Ffelix of St. Paul, Minn., and HelenGriffin, Della Mae Roberson, Annie Bell Brooks, Queen EstherHawkins and Mary Nell Dixon, all of Brookhaven; and a host ofnieces and nephews.