Services for Sylvia Jewel Black of Jackson were 4:30 p.m., June5, at Westhaven Memorial Funeral Home with burial in Cedar LawnCemetery.

Mrs. Black, 60, died May 31, 2004. She was born in Chicago,Ill., on Sept. 8, 1943, to Hilda Mae Lewis and Curtis Harding.

She attended Robert S. Abbott Grammar School and WendellPhillips High School. She accepted Christ at an early age atProgressive Baptist Church.

Preceding her in death were her mother; and her husband, DennisJ.W. Black.

Survivors are her children, Michael Harding of Chicago, CherylBlack of Wesson, Debra Black of Brookhaven, and Patricia Black ofJackson; her sisters, Gloria Ford and Nancy Ellis; her brother,Curtis Harding Jr.; seven grandchildren; one great-grandchild;numerous cousins, nieces, nephews and friends; and a specialfriend, Albert Brothern of Jackson.