Services for Joanna Ella Barksdale Coleman, of Union Church,will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 12, at Pleasant Hill BaptistChurch in Copiah County with burial in the church cemetery.Riverwood Family Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation is Thursday from 5 until 9 p.m. at the funeralhome.

Mrs. Coleman, 94, died Oct. 10, 2007, at her residence. She wasborn on Aug. 30, 1913, to Henry Decater Barksdale and Bertha MaeMcKinney Barksdale.

She was a homemaker. She was a member of Springhill PentecostalChurch in Wesson.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Sherrod T.Coleman; her sons, Sherrod Henry Coleman, Everette Truly Coleman,Jerry Wayne Coleman; her brothers, Shelby Barksdale, EveretteBarksdale; her sisters, Clydia Rosenbalm, Berniece Germany, ThelmaBarksdale and Mary Lee.

Survivors are her sons, William Leslie “Billy” Coleman and JoelStark “Starkey” Coleman; her daughters, Dorothy Gene Tuneburg, JudyTherese Edwards and Konnie Kay Speed; her sister, Iris Smith; her16 grandchildren, 36 great-grandchildren, and 11great-great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to Southern Care Inc., 706 Hwy. 51 North,Brookhaven, MS 39601.