Graveside services for Joseph “Joey” Clinton Melancon III, ofBrookhaven, are 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, at Greer Cemetery inJayess. Riverwood Family Funeral Service is in charge ofarrangements.

Mr. Melancon, 49, died Sept. 20, 2008, at his residence. He wasborn in Lawrence County on May 29, 1959, to Joseph Clinton MelanconII and Mary Jacqueline Summers Morgan.

He attended Barber College and completed Chef College. He workedas a professional chef in Hammond, Las Vegas and New Orleans. Hishobbies included catering, drawing and painting as well as home andinterior decorating work. He was of the Pentecostal faith.

Preceding him in death were his mother; and a grandfather, GradyLee Carr.

Survivors are his father; his brothers, David Michael Boyd andwife, Glenda, of Jayess, and David Clinton Melancon and wife,Kelly, of Baton Rouge, La.; a sister, Rebecca B. Gwin and husband,Kerry, of Brookhaven; his grandmother, Doris Cain Carr, ofMonticello; and a host of aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews, who heloved and was close to.