Services for Hugh L. Boyte Sr., of Brookhaven, are 2 p.m.Sunday, Jan 8 at Bethel Temple United Pentecostal Church withburial in the church cemetery.

Visitation is today from 4 to 9 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m.until 9 p.m. at Brookhaven Funeral Home and Sunday from 1 to 2 p.m.at the church.

Mr. Boyte, 80, died Jan. 5, 2006, at Mississippi Baptist MedicalCenter in Jackson. He was born in Louisiana on Sept. 7, 1925, toTom E. Boyte and Lillie Hemphill Boyte.

He was a drilling superintendent with Engineers Laboratory Inc.for 40 years. He served in the Navy during World War II. He was amember of Bethel Temple Pentecostal Church.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his son, Eldon Ross”Butchie” Boyte Sr.; his brother, Wessie D. Boyte Sr.; a sister,Jessie L. Hilton; and a brother-in-law, Kenneth Hester.

Survivors are his wife of 58 years, Clara Adelle Boyte, ofBrookhaven; his sons, Hugh L. Boyte Jr. and Tommy E. Boyte, both ofBrookhaven; his daughters Helen Louise Boyte Smith and her husband,Mitchell, of Loyd Star, Jennie Boyte Waldrop and her husband,Jessie, of Brookhaven, Wendy Star Boyte Furr, of Brookhaven, PennySue Boyte Moulder and her husband, Russell, of Brookhaven and PattiMaranda Boyte, of Clinton; his sisters, Johnnie Acy and herhusband, Charles, of Brookhaven, and JoAnne Hester, of Garland,Texas; his brother, Tom E. Boyte Jr. and his wife, Mary, ofBrookhaven; his sister-in-law, Lavada Boyte, of Brookhaven; 21grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces,nephews and cousins.