NATCHEZ — Services for Celestine A. Joel, 94, of Natchez, who died Saturday, March 17, 2012, at Natchez Community Hospital, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Kingston Road with the Rev. George W. Tyler, presiding elder, officiating.

Burial will follow at the church cemetery under the direction of Bateaste Memorial Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Survivors include six grandchildren, Jessie Seiferth and wife, Annette, Celestine Harvard and husband, Frank, Catherine Pollard and husband, Paul, Elouise Davis and husband, Leon, Caleb Johnson and wife, Jacqueline, and Billy R. Johnson and wife, Rhonda; and one sister, Edna R. Strauder.