Services for Margarette M. Etheridge, of McComb, are 11 a.m.Thursday, Dec. 31, at Jones Family Funeral Services Chapel inMcComb with burial in Hollywood Cemetery in McComb. Pastor WoodyRimes and the Rev. Ed Stewart will officiate.

Visitation is Wednesday from 5 until 8 p.m. and Thursday from 10until 11 a.m. at the funeral home.

Mrs. Etheridge, 88, died Dec. 29, 2009, at McComb Nursing andRehabilitation Center in McComb. She was born in Franklin County onSept. 3, 1921, to H.W. and Eula Cotton McCall.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of the Church of God and afirm believer in Jesus Christ. As long as she was able, she enjoyedfishing, gardening, birds, quilting, crocheting and cooking. Herfamily was very important to her.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, J.R.Etheridge; a son and daughter-in-law, Roger and Margie Etheridge;her brothers, Milton and Sidney McCall; and a great-grandson,Zachary Bryan.

Survivors are her sons, Bobby Q. Etheridge, of McComb, and JerryEtheridge and wife, Carolyn, of Brookhaven; a brother, Billy McCalland wife, Florence, of McComb; a sister, Vanetta Duncan andhusband, J.L., of Summit; a former daughter-in-law, Priscilla Burt,of McComb; her nine grandchildren, Janet and K.C. Moore, JulieEtheridge, Brandi and Michael Wilson, Molly Etheridge, WayneEtheridge, Lisa Brown, Angela and Kelly Honea, Louis Etheridge andJ. Etheridge; and her 16 great-grandchildren; and her sixstep-great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.

Pallbearers are K.C. Moore, Scott Mixon, Garland McGhee, E.J.Bryan, William Etheridge and Micah Moore.

Honorary pallbearer is John Duhon.