Services for Rita Hutchinson Traylor of Brookhaven are 11 a.m.,Thursday, Feb. 12, at McKneely Funeral Home in Kentwood, La., withburial in Barron Cemetery in Kentwood. Services will be conductedby the Rev. David Milligan.

Visitation is Wednesday from 6-9 p.m., and Thursday from 8-11a.m., at the funeral home.

Mrs. Traylor, 88, died Feb. 9, 2004, at her residence.

She was a homemaker, and was a native of Hammond, La.

Preceding her in death were her husband, T.J. Traylor; twodaughters, Bertie Ballard and Yvonne Chenevert; her son, JimTraylor; an infant brother and sister; and a grandson, HaroldBernard Fairburn Jr.

Survivors are her daughters and sons-in-law, Wilda Fairburn Gillof Spring Creek, La., Nancy and Larry Loper, and Jo Ann and ElliottSmith, all of Brookhaven, Lois and F.L. Leonard of Springfield,La., and Sharon and John Bevil of Gramercy, La.; her sister, AudreyFairchild of St. Francisville, La.; her grandsons, Bill Ballard ofChesbrough, La., and Scott Traylor of Gramercy; and numerousgrandchildren, great-grandchildren andgreat-great-grandchildren.