Graveside services for George Ralph Bessonette, of Collins, are3:30 p.m. today, Jan. 29 at Easthaven Baptist Church Cemetery.Brookhaven Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Bessonette, 82, died Jan. 26, 2006, at V. A. Nursing Home inCollins. He was born in Brookhaven on May 28, 1923, to George EllisBessonette and Mamie Jordan Bessonette.

He was a retired dispatcher for Brookhaven Police Department, asecurity guard, and worked for Army Intelligence for 22 years. Hewas a veteran of World War II. He was a member of VFW, AmericanLegion, NRA and Sons of the Confederate Soldier.

Preceding him in death were his parents; and his sisters, RuthKahl and Jackie Ford.

Survivors are his nephews, Harold Kahl and Reuben Kahl, both ofHattiesburg; and his nieces, Sophia White, of Oklahoma City, Okla.,Mary Letchworth, of Columbia, and Melissa Mitchell, of Cumming,Ga.