Graveside services for Ruby Jewel Kalil will be held at 11:30a.m. on Saturday, April 19, at Riverwood Memorial Park inBrookhaven.

Visitation is Friday from 5 until 7 p.m. at Stricklin-KingFuneral Home in Yazoo City.

Mrs. Kalil, 85, died April 16, 2008, at the G. V. (Sonny)Montgomery VA Medical Center in Jackson. She was born in MadisonCounty on Oct. 14, 1922, to Henry Ledlow and Lucinda PageLedlow.

She lived most of her life in Brookhaven and she and her husbandoperated a family-owned grocery store, U Save Market. She was aWomen’s Army Corps veteran of World War II and served inCharleston, S.C. and Atlanta, Ga.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband of over 50years, Lewis Anthony Kalil; and her brothers, Robert Ledlow, WillieLedlow and Hubert Ledlow.

Survivors are her son, Lewis J. Kalil and wife Laura, ofBentonia; her granddaughter, Ruby Anne Kalil, of Jackson; hergrandsons, Jamie Lewis Anthony “Tony” Kalil, of Springfield, Mo.,and Christopher Mason Kalil, of Bentonia; her sisters, KathrynPlunkett, of Yazoo City, Earline Setzler, of Louisiana, RoseRichardson, Annette McCullough and Barbara Jones, all of Flora; andnumerous nieces and nephews.