Services for Bessie Lee “Big Mama” Thomas, of Los Angeles,Calif., are 3 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 13, at Tyler Funeral Home withburial in Cool Spring M.B. Church Cemetery in McCall Creek.

Mrs. Thomas, 72, died Jan. 8, 2007, at Martin Luther KingMedical Center in Los Angeles. She was born on July 12, 1934, toJoe White and Sarah Costley White.

She was a homemaker.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her daughter, RuthHelen Dunn Bunton; her brothers, Leroy, Julius and Edward; and hersister, Mary Kelly.

Survivors are her son, James Thomas, of Denver, Colo.; herdaughter, Sara Lee Thomas, of Los Angeles; her brother, Joe WillieWhite, of Denver; her sisters, Velma Jenkins, of Los Angeles, andRuby Lee Thomas, of Lucien, and her nine grandchildren and 18great-grandchildren, and a host of great-great-grandchildren.