Services for John Curtis “Dick” Tarver, of Brookhaven, are 11a.m. Saturday, Aug. 19, at Brookhaven Funeral Home with burial inEasthaven Cemetery in Brookhaven.

Visitation is today from 5 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mr. Tarver, 85, died Aug. 17, 2006, at King’s Daughters MedicalCenter. He was born on June 21, 1921, to John Tarver and BerthaKing Tarver.

He was retired from South Central Bell Telephone Company after37 years of service. He was a member of New Sight Baptist Church.He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was a member of theVFW, American Legion and Telephone Pioneers, for which he was pastpresident three times of the Brookhaven and McComb chapters. He wasa member of LLL at First Baptist Church, Joy Club at New Sight anda former member of Lincoln Chorale.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his two sisters and twobrothers.

Survivors are his wife of 65 years, Lillian Jobe Tarver, ofBrookhaven; his sister, Irene Starkey, of Jena, La.; his nieces,Laura Helen Massey, of Bogue Chitto, Thelma Jean Jackson andhusband Tommy, of Liberty, Betty Jean Dykes, of Brookhaven, andGlenda Tanksley and husband Don, of Lorman; and a host of niecesand nephews.