Services for Elmore “Buddy Reed” Williams of Gulfport are noon,Saturday, Jan. 18, at George & Lillian Lockett Memorial Chapel,Lockett-Williams Mortuary, with burial in Pine Ridge Cemetery inGulfport.

Mr. Williams, 70, died Jan. 11, 2003, in Gulfport. He was bornin Wesson on Jan. 5, 1933, to Noah Williams and Rosia D. ReedWilliams.

He was a retired self-employed mechanic.

Preceding him in death was his sister, Clarastine Hamilton.

Survivors are his son, James Earl Demeyers of California; andhis sister, Alice White of Brookhaven.