Services for Wendell Sterling Sr., of McComb, are 11 a.m.Wednesday, Feb. 15 at Hartman Funeral Home of McComb with burial inHollywood Cemetery in McComb. Dr. David Millican will officiateservices.

Visitation is Tuesday from 5 to 9 p.m. and Wednesday from 9 to11 a.m. at the funeral home.

Mr. Sterling, 66, died Feb. 12, 2006, at his residence,following a brief illness. He was born in McComb on April 8, 1939,to Frazier Scott and Rubye Davis Sterling.

He was self-employed as a used car dealer with Car Palace inMcComb. He was a member of South McComb Baptist Church. He lovedhis garden and working with his tractor. He especially loved hisgrandkids and spending time with “Bear.”

Preceding him in death were his parents.

Survivors are his wife, Norma Lynn Brown Sterling, of McComb;his sons, Thad Wendell Sterling Jr., of Omaha, Neb., Michael LeeSterling and his wife, Elizabeth Barrett, of Southaven, and JosephDarrell Sterling and his wife, Elizabeth Conway, of Austin, Texas;his daughters Rachel Diane Butrick and her husband, Terry, ofSummit, and Sharon Marie Allen, and her husband, Bart, ofBrookhaven; his brothers, Charles Sterling and his wife, Carolyn ofHouston, Texas, Glen Sterling and his wife, Joyce, of McComb, JerrySterling and his wife, Shirley, of McComb, and Paul Sterling, ofMcComb; his sisters, Frances Walker and her husband, Gene, ofMadison, Ala., Barbara Evans and her husband, Phillip, of Magnolia,Patricia Seale and her husband, Jack, of Summit, and Pauline Behlarand her husband, Jim, of Summit, and Cheryl Foster and her husband,Jerry, of Denham Springs, La.; nine grandchildren, Joshua Butrick,Matt Butrick and his wife, Brandy, Hannah Allen, Haley Allen, NoahAllen, Chandler Sterling, Sawyer Sterling, Blake Sterling andBrooke Sterling; and a special nephew, Steven Craig Sterling.

Pallbearers will be Terry Butrick, Bart Allen, Jim Behlar, JerryFoster Rusty Cutrer and Jerry Phelps.

Honorary pallbearers will be Charles Sterling, Glenn Sterling,Jerry Sterling, Paul Sterling, Jimmy Smith and Judge MikeSmith.