Funeral Services for Billy Joe Rials are 11 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015, at Bethel Temple United Pentecostal Church with burial at the church cemetery. Riverwood Family Funeral Services is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2014, from 5 until 9 p.m. also at the church.

Mr. Rials, 76, died Dec. 30, 2014, at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in McComb. He was born on April 8, 1938, to Marcus and Alma Rials.

He was an operator for Lincoln County and was a member of Bethel Temple United Pentecostal Church.

Preceding him in death were his parents, Marcus and Alma Rial; sisters Bobby Jean Beeson and Helen Givens.

Survivors are his wife, JoAnn Moak Rials; son, Johnny Rials; daughters, Malissa Carraway and Sandra Austin; brother, Nick Rials; and sisters, Bonnie Boyte; Von Dell Norton and Veta Grace Grenn; seven grandchildren, Jake Rials; Madison Rials; Sawyer Rials; Andy Florey; Zack Florey; Britney Eberhart; Magean Carraway; and three great-grandchildren, Connor Murphy, Lawson Eberhart and baby girl, Saucier (May 2015); and daughter-in-law, Rhonda Rials.

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