PHILADELPHIA – Services for Bessie Lee Allen will be held today at 2 p.m. at McClain-Hays Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Lawrence Pool officiating. Burial will be in Sandtown Cemetery.

Mrs. Allen, 98, died Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010, at Neshoba County Nursing Home.

Survivors include her daughter, Bonnie Jean McDonald; two sons, Lester Allen Jr. and Charles Allen; one sister, Ruby Luke; five grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Lester Allen and her son, James Allen.