Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, 2008, at Billy King-Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Collins with burial in the Eminence United Methodist Church Cemetery in Seminary.

Mr. Leggett was retired from the Masonite Corporation in Laurel as a security officer, a deputy sheriff for Covington County, a farmer, and a cattleman. He served as president of the Southeast Mississippi Livestock Association and was a member of the Eminence United Methodist Church in Seminary. He was a World War II U. S. Army Veteran and a member of the Seminary Masonic Lodge #461.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Jeremiah Phillip and Margaret Idella Temples Leggett; his wife, Grace Anice Mitchell Leggett; four infant children who died at birth; four sisters, Pearl Elizabeth Leggett Bass Thompson, Bertha Idella Leggett Taylor, Mary Gladys Leggett Johnson, and infant Idella Leggett; brothers, William Blain Leggett, Jasper Newton Leggett, James Thomas Leggett, Felix Elmer Leggett, and John Carley Leggett.

Survivors include a host of nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be held from 6 until 8 p.m. this evening at Billy King-Colonial Chapel Funeral Home, which is in charge of the arrangements.

James Porter

James Porter, 46, of Hattiesburg, died Thursday, March 27, 2008, at his residence.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 1, at Wayside Holy Church.

Survivors include his wife, Gennie Simmons of Hattiesburg; sons, James Porter Jr. of Hattiesburg and Jericho Beason of Erie, Penn.; daughters, Shukina Atkins, Erika McLain, and Kimberly Moore, all of Laurel, and Angelica Porter and Alexus Porter, both of Hattiesburg; sisters, Deborah Wilson of Hattiesburg and LaBrenda Plummer of Gulfport; brothers, Steve Plummer of Gulfport, Henry Lee Donaldson and Bobby Donaldson, both of Flint, Mich., Reevinoils Plummer of Sacramento, Calif., and Odell Cooley of Dayton, Ohio; and five grandchildren.

Visitation will be held from 9 until 11 a.m. Tuesday at the church.

Century Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

Mary Agnes “Aggie” Rambin