BROOKHAVEN — Services for John Wade Thorpe, 62, of Union Church, who died Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, at his residence, will be at noon Thursday at Brookhaven Funeral Home Chapel.

Burial will follow at Union Church Cemetery under the direction of Brookhaven Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until service time Thursday at the funeral home.

Mr. Thorpe was a disabled veteran of the U.S. Army, having served in Germany during the Vietnam War.

He was preceded in death by his parents, John W. Thorpe and Sallie Mae Twiner Thorpe; his grandparents, Walter and Florence Twiner; and one nephew, Michael Wayne Tarver.

Survivors include three children, Jonathan Wade Thorpe and wife, Lisa, of Bogue Chitto, Walter Ray Thorpe and wife, Amie, of Summit and Frances Jane Sills and husband, Daniel, of New Hebron; five grandchildren, Danielle Thorpe, Johnathan “JJ” Thorpe, Hunter Sills, Haley Sills and Melanie Whittington; two brothers, Jim Thorpe of Natchez and Lloyd Thorpe of Richland; and four sisters, Janette Tarver of Meridian, Linda Irby of Enterprise, Marina Smith of Union Church and Liz Haralson of Brookhaven.