Services for Ludella Mae Shears will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Seven Star M.B. Church with the Rev. Johnnie B. Martin officiating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery. Visitation will be from noon until 6 today at Williams Funeral Service with family present from 5 until 6.

Mrs. Shears died Monday, March 16, 2009, at River Region Medical Center. She was 65.

Survivors include her husband, James Shears Sr. of Utica; and her mother, three sons, two daughters, two brothers, four sisters and other relatives.