Services for Arch Lamar Windham, of Bogue Chitto, are 2 p.m.Saturday, Feb. 7, at Macedonia Baptist Church with burial in thechurch cemetery.

Visitation is Friday from 5 until 9 p.m. at Brookhaven FuneralHome on Natchez Drive and Saturday 8 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. at thefuneral home.

Mr. Windham, 82, died Feb. 3, 2009, at his residence. He wasborn in Warren, Ark., on March 6, 1926, to Arch Aaron and GussiePrice Windham.

He was reared by his grandmother, Betty McKeithen Windham, afterlosing his mother at age 6 and father at age 7. He attended Jena,La., public schools, but quit to work in a shipyard in Orange,Texas at the beginning of World War II. He served in the 137th U.S.Navy Construction Battalion. After the war, he came back to work asa roughneck for Big Chief Drilling Co. For several years he and hisfamily lived in several towns in Louisiana, Florida and Mississippiwhile managing drilling rigs for the H.L. Rowley Co. and RimrockTidelands Drilling Co. He and his family moved to Brookhaven in1959, where he worked for Teche Drilling Co. He also worked formore than 10 years as a drilling consultant for Web JayEngineering. After he retired from the oilfield, he worked with DayDetectives, Gatlin Corporation and Watts Pharmacy until his healthdeclined. He was a member of Halbert Heights Baptist Church inBrookhaven and later joined Easthaven Baptist Church inBrookhaven.

Preceding him in death were his parents; and a sister, HazleFrancile.

Survivors are his wife of 61 years, Dorothy Newell Windham; hissons, Mike Windham and wife, Sue, Jon Windham and wife, Tammy; adaughter, Brenda Windham Case and husband, Richard; a brother,Gillis Windham, of Magnolia; a sister, Madge Rose Ryland, ofPineville; his six grandchildren, Todd, Ben, Justin, Blake andCaleb Windham and Ana Case; and his three great-grandchildren,Chandler Case, Cameron Duncan and Laura Clare Windham.

The family would like to extend thanks to Dr. Dena Jackson, Dr.Jeff Ross and the staff of the intensive care unit and the thirdfloor at King’s Daughters Medical Center in Brookhaven.