Services for Irlene Taylor Ratliff of Brookhaven are 3 p.m.,Wednesday, Nov. 26, at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel with burialin Heuck’s Retreat Baptist Church Cemetery.

Visitation is Wednesday from noon-3 p.m., at the funeralhome.

Mrs. Ratliff, 77, died Nov. 24, 2003, at King’s DaughtersMedical Center. She was born in Crystal Springs on Feb. 23, 1926,to John Vernon Taylor and Lily Hamilton Taylor.

She was a licensed practical nurse for 45 years. She receivedher nursing training at University Hospital in Jackson, and workedat King’s Daughters Hospital, Hardy Wilson Hospital in Hazlehurst,and several nursing homes in Brookhaven and Athens, Ala. Sheattended elementary and high school in Crystal Springs, andattended University of Southern Mississippi. She was a member ofHeuck’s Retreat Baptist Church.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, William”Billy” Ratliff; and her brother-in-law, John Gribble Sr.

Survivors are her sister, Myrtle Ruth “Myrt” Taylor Gribble ofByram; her nephew, John E. Gribble II and wife, Barbara, ofHouston, Texas; her niece, Ruth Neal Gribble Gresset and husband,Wayne, of Byram; her great-nephew, John E. Gribble III and wife,Sharon, of Houston; her great-niece, Michelle Gribble Lynn andhusband, Chris, of Houston; her great-nephew, Staff. Sgt. JefferyWayne Harrington and wife, Melissa, of Ft. Monmouth, N.J.; hergreat-great-nephews, Jeffery, Taylor and Ethan Harrington, andAddison and Lucas Lynn; her special friend, Carole Thompson ofBrookhaven; and her beloved pets (babies), Freckles, Whiskers andBoots.

Pallbearers will be John Norton, Horace Golmon, Perry Spencer,Steve Smith, Lafayette McDavid and David Stamps. Honorarypallbearers will be the nurses and staff who lovingly cared for herat King’s Daughters Medical Center and worked with her, and thenurses and personnel at Hardy Wilson Hospital.