Cremation services for Jennings Gifford Smith of Brookhaven willbe held at Riverwood Memorial Park with burial following there.Brookhaven Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Smith, 78, died June 9, 2003, at King’s Daughters MedicalCenter. He was born in Lincoln County on Nov. 21, 1924, to Edgar J.Smith and Mary Case Smith.

He was a retired geophysicist. He was a meteorologist in WorldWar II.

Preceding him in death were his parents; and his wife, NitaSmith.

Survivors are his son, David A. Smith of Brookhaven; hisdaughter, Victoria Anne Smith of Albuquerque, N.M.; his sisters,Donis Walker of Walker, La., and Geraldine Smith of Brookhaven.

Memorials may be made to Hospice Ministries, Inc., 450 TowneCenter Blvd., Ridgeland, MS 39157.