Donald Brent

Published 12:00 am Saturday, October 4, 2008

MCCOMB – Services for Donald Earl Brent, 77, of Ferriday, formerly of McComb, who died Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008, at Riverland Medical Center, in Ferriday, will be at 2 p.m. today at Catchings Funeral Home with the Rev. Bounds officiating.
Visitation will be from noon until service time today at the funeral home.
Burial will be at Bogue Chitto Baptist Church Cemetery, at Carter’s Creek, under the direction of Catchings Funeral Home in McComb.
Mr. Brent was born July 29, 1931, in Pike County, the son of F.V. Brent and Birdie Mae Ainsworth Brent. He was retired from Illinois Central Railroad as a mechanic foreman. He was a Baptist.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and one son, Gregory Earl Brent.
Survivors include his wife of 58 years, Mary Evelyn Boyd Brent; one daughter, Teresa Ward and husband, Larry, both of Lake St. John; three brothers, William Brent and wife, Rosalea, and Julius Brent, all of Summit, and Major Brent of Van Cleave; three grandchildren, Mary Katherine McDonald and husband, Tommy, Rebecca Young and husband, Adam, and Laura Jones, all of Natchez; and four great-grandchildren.