Graveside services for Kenneth McNeese, of Monticello, are 2 p.m. on Tuesday, July 31, at Carmel Baptist Church Cemetery. Wilson Funeral Home in Monticello is in charge of arrangements.

     Mr. McNeese, 78, died July 23, 2012, at The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

     He was retired from Odeco offshore where he was a motorman in the oil field and Tillotson’s service station. Mr. McNeese was a member of Carmel Baptist Church.

     Preceding him in death were his parents, Pink and Lucy Davis McNeese; son, Kenneth Mikell McNeese; brothers, J.W. McNeese and C.R. McNeese; and sister, Bert Grayson.

     Survivors are his wife, Mary Wilson McNeese; son, Danny F. McNeese, of Monticello; and sisters, Betty Lee and Myrt Bryant, both of New Hebron.