Services for Wayne King, of Brookhaven, are 11 a.m. Friday, Jan.15, at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel on Natchez Drive with burialin Bethesda Methodist Church Cemetery. The Revs. Mike DuBose, MackMassey and Rich Balkcom will officiate.

Visitation is Thursday from 4 until 8 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mr. King, 68, died Jan. 12, 2010, at his residence. He was bornin Vicksburg on May 3, 1941, to Daniel Boyce King and June LockhardCollins.

He was a car inspector with Illinois Central Railroad. Mr. Kingalso served in the U.S. Army with military police in Germany. Hewas a member of First Baptist Church in Hazlehurst.

Preceding him in death were his parents; and a sister, PatCollins.

Survivors are his stepmother, Ruby King, of Hazlehurst; a son,Jeff King and wife, Angie, of Brookhaven; a daughter, Kellye Sicksand husband, Doug, of Brookhaven; his brothers, Kenny King, ofRayville, La., Mike Collins, of Vicksburg, Mark Collins, ofMemphis, Tenn., Danny King, of Hazlehurst, Ronnie King, of Plano,Texas, and Paul Collins, of Santa Cruz, of Calif.; his sisters,Sharon Phillipi, of Bay Minette, Ala., and Donna Mary Hamby, ofStapleton, Ala.; his four grandchildren, Jillian and Ian Sicks andAaron and Jonah King.

Pallbearers are Scott Jerome, Buddy Vinzant, Nikki Cothern, MelSteinhower, Rex Phillipi and Christopher Phillipi.

Honorary pallbearers are Harold Reid, Boots Hawkins, RoyNations, Del Roy Smith and John Coffman.

Memorials may be made to St. Jude Children’s Hospital inMemphis.