Services for James Hamilton, of Brookhaven, are 2 p.m. Saturday,Oct. 21, at St. Peter’s Rock M.B. Church in Beauregard with burialin the church cemetery. Hazlehurst Burial Association and FuneralHome is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Friday from 6 until 8 p.m. at the church.

Mr. Hamilton, 51, died Oct. 17, 2006, at University MedicalCenter in Jackson. He was born on Sept. 7, 1955, to Ray HamiltonII, and Gertrude Smith Hamilton.

He attended Wesson High School and was a contractor. He was amember of St. Peter’s Rock M.B. Church.

Preceding him in death were his father; his son, Eddie Hooks;and his grandparents.

Survivors are his mother, Gertrude Smith Hamilton, ofBrookhaven; his sons, Daryl J. Hamilton, of Brookhaven, and BarryJackson, of Detroit, Mich.; his daughter, Latonja L. Jackson, ofDetroit; his brothers, Ray Hamilton III, David C. Hamilton and wifeFlora, Eugene Hamilton and wife Rose, all of Brookhaven, andKenneth Hamilton and wife Paulette, of Belflower, Calif.; hissisters, Joyce Francisco and husband Ainsworth, of Carson, Calif.,Virginia Hamilton Dickey, of Brookhaven, and Elaine Dunnigan andhusband Eddie, of Wesson; his godbrother, Willie Turner Jr., ofByrum, and his loving companion, Audrey Hudson, of Brookhaven.