Services for Ricky Lavell Dalton, of Brookhaven, are 2 p.m.Saturday, April 22, at New Zion Union M.B. Church in Bogue Chittowith burial in New Zion-Norfield Cemetery. Williams Mortuary is incharge of arrangements.

Visitation is Friday from 1 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home, withthe family present from 7 to 8 p.m.

Mr. Dalton, 39, died April 13, 2006, at King’s Daughters MedicalCenter. He was born on Aug. 18, 1966, to Louis “Bo” Dalton Sr. andJuanita “Peggy” Dalton.

He was disabled. He was a 1985 honor graduate of Bogue ChittoHigh School. He was a member of Avery Chapel AME Church, where hewas a member of the male choir and served with the Sons ofAllens.

Preceding him in death were his grandparents; his father; hissister, Shirley Harris; and his brother-in-law, Richard G.Kelly.

Survivors are his mother; his wife, Dianne Dalton, ofBrookhaven; his daughter, Konawv Smith, of Brookhaven; hisstepdaughter, Kimberly Henry, of Summit; his brothers, Louis Daltonand wife Betty, of Savoy, Ill., Lamar Dalton, of Brookhaven, MarvinDalton, of Las Vegas, Nev., Kenny Ray Dalton and wife Liz, ofMcComb, and Roger Dalton and wife, Kim, of Bogue Chitto; hissisters, Mary E. Hall and husband Johnny, of Bogue Chitto, andSharon Jackson and husband Charlie, of Brookhaven; his threegrandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives andfriends.