Oct. 15, 1959 – Sept. 13, 2016

VIDALIA – Services for Jessie W. Banks Jr., 56, of Vicksburg, formerly of Vidalia, who died Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, at River Regions Medical Center in Vicksburg, will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Union Baptist Church in Vidalia with the Rev. Carl Smith officiating.
Burial will follow at the Vidalia Cemetery under the direction of Concordia Funeral Home.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Mr. Banks was born Oct. 15, 1959, in Natchez, the son of Jeffery Banks Sr. and Patsy Cubie Banks.
He was a regional manager for Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants.
Mr. Banks was preceded in death by his parents; two children, Robert D. Banks and Jessica Banks; six siblings, Leo Banks, Jeffery Banks Jr., Tom Banks, Idella Sheppard, Irma Banks and Elnora.
Survivors include his ex-wife and mother of his children, Wanda Jo Banks of Vidalia; one son, Jessie Banks Jr. of Baton Rouge; three daughters, Brandy Small, Erica Small and Llwendelyn Paul of Vidalia; four brothers, Renard Banks Sr. and wife, Sylvia, Franklin Banks and wife, Betty, all of Natchez, Ernie Banks and wife, Jennifer, of Vidalia and Danny Lyles and wife, Denise, of Dallas; six sisters, Marjorie Williams and husband, Charlie, Sharon White and husband, Rolonda, Betty Sigust and husband, James, all of Vidalia, and Eva L. Banks of Greenbelt, Md.; one stepson, Terrell Dotson of Vicksburg; special friend, Dorothy Taylor Martin of Vicksburg; and seven grandchildren.