Services for Alfred Ray Furlow, of Jackson, are 11 a.m. Friday,Oct. 21 at Chancellor Funeral Home in Byram with burial in BethesdaMethodist Cemetery near Hazlehurst.

Visitation is today from 6 to 8 p.m. and Friday from 10 to 11a.m. at the funeral home.

Mr. Furlow, 72, died Oct. 19, 2005, at his residence.

He was a self-employed floor covering installer.

Preceding him in death were his parents, J.B. and Mary LouHamilton Furlow; two brothers, Jimmy and Benton Furlow; his sisterVeryle Mercier; and a granddaughter, Amy Danielle Evans.

Survivors are his wife, Francis Merle Brister Furlow; twodaughters, Patricia Ann Wallace and her husband, Ed, of Terry, andKathy Lynn Tate and her husband, Jeff, of Jackson; his brother,Stanley Ed Furlow, of Lafayette, La.; two sisters, Inez Danise, ofOcean Springs, and Joan Ann Grone, of Brookhaven; twograndchildren, Bradley Ray Cotten and his wife, Kandye, ChristinaLatrice Cotten; and one great-grandchild, Allison Jean Cotten.