Services for Hollis Barnett Rutter, of Troy, Ala., are 10 a.m.on Friday, June 27, at Brookhaven Funeral Home on North JacksonStreet with burial in Rosehill Cemetery.

Visitation is Thursday from 5 until 9 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mr. Rutter, 81, died June 24, 2008, at Baptist South MedicalCenter in Montgomery, Ala. He was born in Lincoln County on Nov. 7,1926, to William Sherman Rutter and Eva Buchanan Rutter.

Mr. Rutter was a retired teacher and football coach. He was agraduate of Mississippi College. He was of the Methodist faith.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his wife, Anne AshmoreRutter; and a son, Steven Rutter.

Survivors are his son, Stan Rutter, of Troy, Ala.; his sister;Waldryn Busby, of Laurel; his granddaughters, Sara Peden, ofMobile, Ala., Taylor Rutter and Lauren Rutter, both of Burlington,Wis.; his great-granddaughters, Savannah and Kaleigh, ofMobile.