Funeral services for Gena Allen Boyte of Brookhaven are Saturday, May 14, 2016, at 1 p.m. at Bethel Temple United Pentecostal Church with burial at Greenlawn Cemetery in Natchez. Riverwood Family Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Boyte, 89, died Wednesday, May 11, 2016, at King’s Daughters Medical Center. She was born on Oct. 4, 1926 in McCall Creek.

Preceding her in death are her parents, Edward and Glossie Wilson Allen; husband, Elbert Ray “Bill” Boyte; brothers, Ray Allen, Earl Allen and Billy Allen; sisters, Pauline Chance, Linda Myers and Sue Smith.

Survivors are her daughter, Patricia Smith and husband, Bob, of Brookhaven; son, Ronald Boyte of OshKosh, Wisconsin; grandchildren, Tammy Smith Fuller and Philip Smith, both of Brookhaven, Corey Boyte of Columbus, Ohio and Seth Boyte of Appleton, Wisconsin; great-grandchildren, Danica, Emileigh and Adrianna Fuller and Miranda Smith, all of Brookhaven; brother, Jimmie Allen of Natchez; sisters, Shirley Fulgham of Georgetown and Elizabeth “Lib” Lee of Natchez.

Memorials can be made through Gideon’s International in her memory.

To express your thoughts to the family, you may visit riverwoodfamily.com and click on her name to leave a comment.