Services for R.B. Stuard of Monticello are 2 p.m. Wednesday,Dec. 8 at Wilson Funeral Home Chapel with burial in MonticelloBaptist Church Cemetery.

Visitation is today from 7-9 p.m. at the funeral home.

Mr. Stuard, 75, died Dec. 5, 2004, at his residence. He was bornin Corsicanna County, Texas, on Jan. 14, 1929, to Wyatt Stuard andMary Finley Stuard.

He entered the oil field at the age of 16 and retired as a toolpusher with Flour Drilling Company. He played golf for 40 years andloved to fish and quail hunt. He served in the Army and was amember of Monticello Baptist Church.

Preceding him in death were his parents; one grandson; twosisters; two brothers; and one son-in-law.

Survivors are his daughters, Cynthia Ste. Marie of Monticello,Sandra McMillan of Houma, La., Darlene Gayle Guidry of Houma, andWendee Kay Hudson of Pensacola, Fla.; his sons, Ronnie Stuard andRodnee Stuard, both of Houma; his sisters, Nona Porter of LakeTexacoma, Texas, and Syble Hammonds of San Antonio, Texas; hisbrothers, Robert Stuard of Brookhaven, and Billy Stuard of SanAntonio, Texas; nine grandchildren; and twogreat-grandchildren.