UTICA — Services for Sam McGriggs Jr. will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Greater Zion Travelers M.B. Church in Utica with the Rev. Charles Harper officiating. Burial will follow at the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 until 6 p.m. Friday at Dillon-Chisley Funeral Home and Saturday at the church from 1 p.m. until the service.

Mr. McGriggs died Sunday, May 17, 2009, at his home in Utica. He was 76.

A Hinds County native, he was retired from the pulpwood industry.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Sam McGriggs Sr. and Emma Smith McGriggs; two sons, Charles McGriggs and Sam McGriggs III; two brothers, Louis McGriggs Sr. and Daniel McGriggs; and a sister, Hulda Chase.

He is survived by his wife, Bernice McGriggs of Utica; four sons, Frank McGriggs, Calvin McGriggs, Tony McGriggs and Joseph Mc-Griggs, all of Utica; two daughters, Flora Mae Robinson of Chicago and Mintha Neal of Utica; one sister, Emma Carson of Utica; and grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews and other relatives.