Services for Lessie Beatrice Brothern Broom of Brookhaven are 11a.m., Saturday, April 10, at Jericho Church of Christ with burialin the church cemetery.

Visitation is Friday from noon until 7 p.m., with family hourfrom 6-7 p.m., at Williams Mortuary.

Mrs. Broom, 69, died April 2, 2004, at Southwest MississippiRegional Medical Center in McComb. She was born in Lincoln Countyon Nov. 20, 1934, to Dempsey Brothern and Queen Ester Brothern.

She was a member of Jericho Church of Christ.

Preceding her in death were her father and a sister, Ruby LeeBryant.

Survivors are her husband, Ulysses Broom of Brookhaven; hermother, Queen Ester Brothern of Brookhaven; her sons, Bennie JamesPearce of Kansas, Mo., Dwayne Broom of Memphis, Tenn., JulianWilliams of Brookhaven, and Carl Williams of Wesson; her sister,Beulah Mae Evans of Brookhaven; her brothers and sisters-in-law,James Dempsey Brothern and wife Ruth, and Jessie Earl Brothern andwife Amy, all of Brookhaven; four grandchildren; and a host ofnieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.