Memorial services for Billy Gene Moore will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary’s Catholic Church with the Rev. Malcolm O’Leary officiating. Rosary will be from 6 until 7 tonight at Lakeview Funeral Home.

Mr. Moore died Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010, at his home in Vicksburg. He was 79.

Born in Vicksburg, he retired from Waterways Experiment Station in 1987 after 32 years of service. He served in the Army Reserve and the Air Force. He created B&M Janitorial Service in the 1960s and B&G Rental in the 1970s.

He attended St. Mary’s Catholic Church and was a member of the Esquire Social Club and American Legion Tyner-Ford Post 213.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Mary Moore and William Walter Faulkner; a daughter, Connie Smith; and two brothers, William Walter “Peter” Moore and Robert E. Moore Sr.

Survivors include three sons, Kelwin “Mo” Moore of Vicksburg, Billy G. Stewart of Hope Mills, N.C., and George Lewis of Palmdale, Calif.; one daughter, Vicki R. Moore of Vicksburg; a brother, John P. Moore of San Jose, Calif.; one sister, Shirley Moore Hoskins of Pittsburg, Calif.; 10 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and members of the Hoskins, Stewart, Slaughter, Evans and Clark families.